This story, “The Bear Chose Me,” appeared in the June 1956 issue of Outdoor Life. Polly Creek lies inside the boundary of what is now Lake Clark National Park & Preserve. His mouth was half open in ...

It’s Fat Bear Week, and the brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park are getting ready for hibernation. That means eating salmon. Lots of salmon. You can watch a live feed of the bears in the ...

Watch this bear's angling skills at the top of a waterfall, then learn why bears want to eat fish and when they do it.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

ALASKA, USA — The bears are back, and they are absolutely massive. Alaska's Brooks River is once again hosting nature's most delightfully chunky competition as Fat Bear Week returns for its 11th year ...