FILE - In this photo provided by the National Park Service is Grazer, the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on Sept. 14, 2023. (F.

Thousands of enormous brown bears feed on the sockeye salmon, clams, and dense vegetation in this Alaskan national park with ...

Fat Bear Week returns to Katmai National Park and Preserve October 2 – 8, 2024. Online voters will be able to cast their ballot for the bear they think has what it takes to survive winter.

Chunk, a contender in this year's Fat Bear Week celebration at Katmai National Park and Preserve. (From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on pounds ...

Katmai National Park & Preserve President Woodrow Wilson established Katmai National Monument in 1918 to preserve the "Valley of 10,000 Smokes," so named when the Novarupta Volcano filled the valley ...

A new federal report indicates the pilot of a floatplane landing at a popular Alaska bear-viewing site in early July crashed in reportedly gusty conditions at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The ...

When the famous brown bear named Chunk appeared on the Explore.org web cam in late June, post-hibernation, his jaw was broken ...

During Fat Bear Week, all eyes are on the bears who live along the Brooks River at Katmai National Park & Preserve as they battle it out to gain massive amounts of weight ahead of their annual ...

Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska kicked off its annual Fat bear Week, with 12 corpulent bears competing to pack on the pounds and earn the public's favor.

A photo posted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in September 2023 of Bear 402 and a yearling cub. Courtesy N. Boak/Katmai National Park and Preserve/Flickr ...

Denali National Park & Preserve If you want to see grizzly bears running through the bright red wild blueberry and dwarf birch against a backdrop of rugged mountain peaks, you can't go wrong with ...