Many years ago, while fishing in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley, I found myself wishing I’d brought along some bear spray. I was hacking through some dense underbrush, finding my way to where it met the ...

FLORENCE (UM News Service) – Before bear spray, encounters between people and bears often ended in bullets. That changed when ...

More and more bears are venturing into towns, and there's a good chance you could see one in your yard. Knowing how to ...

If there’s one thing Brigham Young University bear expert and professor Tom Smith wants nature lovers to know before heading out into the wilderness, it’s that, “you have no business going into bear ...

If you are going out into the wilderness there are a lot of things you should ensure you put in your pack. One of those things is bear spray. After all, the last thing you want to happen is to come ...

NBC Montana Staff — Living in Montana, I love being outdoors, going for hikes, Then it hit me, 'what would I do if I encountered a bear?' The answer is I don't know, that is until now. I got a one-one ...

A 29-year-old male hiking solo in Yellowstone National Park required medical care after sustaining significant but non-life-threatening injuries in a surprise encounter with a bear believed to have ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Given that bears call more than two-thirds of the United States home, it is a good idea to carry bear spray and know how to use it whenever ...

Long ago, grizzly bears thrived in Montana as did tales - some tall, some true - told by frontiersmen of a man-eater even more fearsome than the other two bogeymen of the forest, wolves and mountain ...