When a grizzly starts terrorizing a railroad, the author decided he needed to track down the bear before someone got hurt.

We dragged the deer for about half a mile along the ridge, then dropped down into a patch of heavy timber and buckbrush. It was rough going in the dark. We came out at the bottom of a draw, about 200 ...

Alaska’s bear hunting season is a long-standing tradition thanks to the state’s rugged wilderness and complex ecosystem management. With two native bear species—the brown (or grizzly) bear and the ...