COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Brown bear hunting in Sweden started Wednesday with 486 licenses to kill them, but conservationists warned that the move would result in a 20% drop in the country’s predator ...

This story, “The Bear Chose Me,” appeared in the June 1956 issue of Outdoor Life. Polly Creek lies inside the boundary of what is now Lake Clark National Park & Preserve. His mouth was half open in ...

About 20% of Sweden’s brown bear population could be killed this hunting season after licenses were issued for 486 of the animals to culled, despite an outcry from conservation groups. There’s ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two Montana men face charges for illegally killing a brown bear on national wildlife refuge in Alaska. Richard McAtee, 46, and Arlon Franz, 51, are accused of conspiring to ...

Brown bears and grizzlies, although closely related, are distinctly different animals. Grizzlies are widely distributed, and have the decency to live in mostly open country, including mountains. Brown ...

A hunter licensed to kill deer fatally shot a brown bear at a country club here without permission from authorities, the ...