Polar bears are eating plastic bags
Polar bears are rummaging in dumps and ingesting plastic bags, according to new research. An analysis looking at the stomach content of 51 polar bears killed by ...
Alaska
Alaska man allowed to use hovercraft in moose hunt
An Alaska man is free to use a hovercraft to hunt moose (Alces alces), the Supreme Court ruled. Justices decided unanimously in favor of John Sturgeon, who had ...
Arctic Refuge drilling plans cause concern in Canada
In late December, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a draft environmental impact statement, analyzing the administration’s plan to open parts of the 19 ...
WSB: Industry surveys can aid beluga whale research
As funding is harder and harder to find for wildlife researchers, some are searching for novel ways to conduct their studies. In a new study published in the ...
BLM offers 2.85 million acres in Alaska for drilling
The Bureau of Land Management is offering for lease 2.85 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) next month. It will be the 14th lease sale ...
Animal Planet offers glimpse ‘Into Alaska’ wildlife refuges
A new 10-part series has launched on Animal Planet taking viewers inside Alaska’s wildlife refuges. On “Into Alaska,” the camera follows a refuge law ...
Kodiak bears benefit from following salmon
Kodiak brown bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) that follow the “resource wave” of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) benefit by eating longer and consuming ...
Brown bears help feed small mammals with seeds in scat
In Alaska, small mammals such as mice and voles eat and disperse seeds that they get from bear scat, according to new research. Previous research on black bears ...
Park Service proposes changes to Alaska hunting regulations
The National Park Service has proposed a rule that would change hunting and trapping regulations for national preserves in Alaska. The rule would reverse NPS ...
JWM: Denali grizzlies self-regulate their population
In the 1990s, researchers at Alaska’s Denali National Park began noticing something strange. Many of the adult female grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) emerging from ...