My buddy and I decided to hunt brown bears during the salmon spawn along a willow-covered creek. There were bears everywhere.

About Katmai National Park The park was named after the stratovolcano of Mount Katmai. First, the area was designated as a national monument in 1918 to protect the area created by the great ...

Fishing forms the backbone of the Kodiak Island economy. Many visitors may be familiar with ... Fishing trips are one of the most popular tourist activities in Kodiak. Red, silver, and pink salmon are ...

The refuge covers nearly two-thirds of Kodiak Island, offering pristine wilderness for wildlife viewing during the summer salmon runs from June through September. Guided tours provide safe ...

Brown bears in Alaska’s Kodiak Island and Brooks River have developed distinct fishing techniques that are transmitted ... and others wade into rapids to catch leaping salmon. In contrast, still ...

You can fish for salmon right off the boardwalk in the ... through the 1964 earthquake and tsunami, and the crab-fishing boom that helped rebuild the town. The heyday of crab fishing also made Kodiak ...

The closure goes into effect Thursday until further notice, according to the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Salmon fishing has been banned temporarily in southern Puget Sound as the state waits for the federal government to complete its review of Puget Sound salmon fisheries under the Endangered Species ...

Those quakes were among nearly a dozen that struck around Kodiak Island within the past week. But Alaska as a whole has reported 10,365 earthquakes so far this year, according to the center.

Home to one of the world's greatest salmon migrations, Campbell River lives up to its title as the 'Salmon Capital of the ...

For several seasons I’d fished a certain island ... fishing must be getting one of the critters to strike. “Don’t worry,” I assured him. “They will.” We stuck with it all that long, hot afternoon, but ...