"Good morning, bear. How are you today? You're looking good today, bear." Fred Katelnikoff, an Alutiiq native guide, is speaking in a calm, measured, almost collegial tone. He doesn't need to ...

By late November and into early December, they head into their dens for hibernation — but not all of them. About 30% of the Kodiak male bear population don’t den at all, according to a state ...

That’s on par with a large male Kodiak brown bear, the kind that occupy the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in Southwestern Alaska. They’re grizzlies, only larger, Bill said. “We wanted to ...