One of the great marvels of nature is how bears, the largest carnivore in North America, are able to hibernate all winter, ...

Average-sized adult males weigh 300 lbs. and females 150 lbs. The black bear once occurred over most of North America from Alaska and Canada south into the central regions of northern Mexico, but now ...

Both grizzly and black bears in the Northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... hibernate for only a few days or weeks, while bears in Alaska can hibernate for six months or more.

In May 2018, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke directed the National Park Service to allow extreme hunting methods in Alaska’s national preserves, such as baiting brown bears, killing black bear mothers ...

Bears can be found in the northern rainforests along Alaska’s panhandle ... October and remain in their dens as late as May. Like black bears, they give birth while hibernating and can be ...