Lifelong wilderness trapper Ted Updaike recounts his encounters with black bears in the woods of Saskatchewan.

The grizzly bounded down the mountainside straight at me. Its head was low to the ground and it was growling all the way. By the time I realized the bear was corning it was only 10 yards away. I had ...

The worst part about getting mauled by a bear would be my father saying “I told you so” over and over. I used to think that, anyway, until around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, at Ricketts Glen State Park in ...

A pair of Cornell University students killed a 120-pound black bear before bringing the carcass back to their dorm, where ...