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In a case that could establish a precedent for gun rights advocates, no charges have been filed against a hiker who shot a grizzly in self-defense in Denali National Park on May 28, 2010. The man and his girlfriend--their names were not released--were hiking in brushy country near Tattler Creek when he heard noise to his right. He drew his .45 caliber semi-auto handgun. A grizzly came out of the brush 25 feet away and charged. The man fired seven to nine rounds. The shooting occurred three months after Congress passed a controversial law allowing people to carry loaded guns...

FAIRBANKS — Officials at Denali National Park and Preserve have released no new details or information regarding the fatal shooting of a grizzly bear by a hiker on Friday in the 6-million-acre park south of Fairbanks. Park officials on Tuesday still had not released the name of the hiker who shot the bear, and rangers are investigating the shooting to determine if it was justified, according to park spokeswoman Kris Fister. She did not say if the park service was contemplating criminal charges against the shooter. A new law passed by Congress in February made it legal to carry firearms...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska - Alaska's upcoming vacancy on the state Supreme Court has drawn 25 applicants, including 10 Superior Court judges. Justice Robert L. Eastaugh, 65, is retiring in November. He was appointed in 1994.

Governor Sarah Palin! Or, actually, what she signifies. We've often stated on FR that if the Republicans would only run true conservatives then we'd win more elections. We'd keep the White House, build conservative majorities in congress, replace liberal activist judges with original intent constitutionalists, and eventually overturn Roe v Wade and begin rolling back some of the damage inflicted upon our beloved republic by the socialists and liberals. John McCain's bold choice of the unabashed pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-liberty, small government, strong defense, fiscal conservative, Sarah Palin, signifies a return to conservatism within the Republican Party. And the...

An aggressive black bear was shot and killed in a remote section of Denali National Park by park staffers on July 4... The black bear had threatened the life and safety of three park employees ... Three seasonal National Park Service technicians were conducting a botany field study along the remote river when a sub-adult black bear approached their camp ... The three tried to scare it away by yelling, waving their arms and throwing objects at the bear. After being chased off into dense brush, the bear circled back to the camp three or four times. At one point,...

Much of the detail surrounding the grizzly bear attack that left 52-year-old Joanne Saunders with a ripped-up leg and a broken nose is largely a blur in memory, but the Virginia tourist does recall the speed of the animal that grabbed her just above the ankle Monday in Denali National Park and Preserve. "They're fast,'' she said. "I had no idea they could be so fast. They're just there." Saunders and her husband, James, 54, were atop an 8- to 9-foot rock outcropping near Savage River looking for a hiking route back to the park road when the bear materialized...

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE--People pay a lot of money to take a sight-seeing trip to Mount McKinley's base camp on the Kahiltna Glacier, but Staff Sgt. Chuck Sanders got a window seat in a Chinook helicopter Tuesday courtesy of a training mission for the U.S. Army. Sanders watched as the granite and white peaks slowly went by outside the small door he was seated by. They looked dangerously close to the helicopter in some places, but the snow-covered glacier valleys are often deceptive to the untrained eye. What seemed to be just an arm's length from the door was...

Melting ice in Yukon reveals ancient hunting artifacts Last Updated Tue Jan 13 12:14:37 2004 WHITEHORSE-- Archeologists working in the Yukon's melting snow fields say they've found some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in the territory. Last year's warm summer further melted the territory's alpine snowfields, which have become a rich source of artifacts from the territory's pre-history. Scientists say tools such as this spear shaft and point are among the oldest evidence of humans in Yukon The sites have been the subject of worldwide attention since scientists discovered the snowfields were once favourite summer hunting grounds. In...

<p>The 7.9 earthquake that slammed the state two weeks ago and continues to tremble even now unzipped an extraordinary geologic scar through the Alaska Range. A horizon-spanning fracture tore open glaciers, sliced mountains and rumpled the landscape with startling new folds and cracks.</p>