I thought I had a great "Bear protection" system until I watched a video showing a man charged by a full-size brown bear. When the salmon show up in the rivers, it's a bear haven. / photo by Ken ...

Lying on a gravel bar in the middle of a tiny creek in remote Alaska, I brought a brown bear into focus through a telephoto camera lens. It was neck-deep in water, head resting on a fallen tree limb, ...

A traveling NHL mascot got the full Alaskan fishing experience last week while filming a promotional video in Katmai National Park. The resulting viral video clip shows “Buoy,” the mascot for the ...

Sea trolls are seemingly not welcome in Alaska. The Seattle Kraken and their mascot, Buoy the sea troll, were in Anchorage for a community partnership when Buoy and Co. were charged by a grizzly bear.

Seattle Kraken center John Hayden and their mascot, Buoy, had a close encounter with a brown bear during a promotional video shoot in Alaska in June. Hayden and Buoy were on a fly-fishing outing in ...

"I want to blame it on Buoy, they were pretty interested in his whole look," Kraken center John Hayden said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KOMO) — The Seattle Kraken hockey team and their sea troll mascot Buoy had quite the heart-racing experience after a grizzly bear charged them during a fly fishing excursion. The ...