I used to figure this kind of thing was uncommon but listed below are the stories in the Anchorage newspaper on bear attacks from just this year. These are just the ones where the bear wins (well usually it is a lose-lose thing). It's not including the defense of life and property instances where the bear looses. Those things scare the bleep out of me - sure adds a dimension to taking my bow or gun for a walk in the woods when there's stuff out there that will eat me.
Alaska Bear Attacks
Friends rescue Shaktoolik man after severe mauling by grizzly
A Western Alaska man is recovering at an Anchorage hospital after a horrific bear mauling, thanks to quick action by two hunting partners who may have saved his life -- and his legs.
Grizzly mauls Clam Gulch pastor
Tom Patmor doesn't remember what happened after he tried decking the grizzly sow that attacked him near his Clam Gulch home Wednesday.
Three shots end fierce mauling of hunter
Hunter Lynn Keogh stood over the brown bear he had just shot and marveled at the animal. It was beautiful, the perfect spring pelt, a deep honey, fully-furred coat.
Bear attack leaves one dead, another hurt
Brown bear attacks on deer hunters near Sitka and Kodiak have left one man dead and another hospitalized.
Anchor Point jogger survives mauling by grizzly
Michael Mungoven and his two dogs were jogging the backcountry trail near his Anchor Point home Sunday morning when a full-grown grizzly ripped through the brush like a 400-pound bullet.
Brown bear swats, drags lodge worker
An employee of the Kenai Princess Lodge in Cooper Landing was attacked and injured by a brown bear as she walked to work Tuesday morning, according to Alaska State Troopers and the resort's manager.
Bear attacks jogging pilot
A Bush pilot, jogging along a wilderness airstrip north of Dillingham early Tuesday, didn't notice the brown bear bedded down in some bordering brush, but the bear noticed him.
Brown bear attack leaves Texas Boy Scout injured but relieved
A brown bear mauled a 15-year-old Boy Scout from Texas on Friday near Cooper Landing, Alaska State Troopers said. After undergoing surgery, the boy was listed in fair condition at an Anchorage hospital.
Bear attacks Peninsula couple
A Kasilof couple was attacked by a brown bear Sunday afternoon while walking their two dogs on a trail near Skilak Lake Loop Road, according to Alaska State Troopers.
Victims of bear attack were wilderness vets
An Anchorage attorney and his retired schoolteacher wife were identified Monday as the victims of an attack by a predatory grizzly bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Denali Park grizzly bear mauls hiker
Much of the detail surrounding the grizzly bear attack that left 52-year-old Joanne Saunders with a ripped-up leg and a broken nose is largely a blur in memory, but the Virginia tourist does recall the speed of the animal that grabbed her just above the ankle Monday in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Bear attack leaves man with multiple wounds
A brown bear attacked and injured a 30-year-old Anchorage man in Soldotna early Saturday morning, Alaska State Troopers said.
Hunting guide mauled by wounded brown bear
Scott Newman of Petersburg says he's naturally a calm person. He proved it Monday evening as a wounded brown bear on Admiralty Island crunched the bones of his left foot and moved up to chew on his leg while Newman methodically tried to free a jam in his rifle.
Brown bear mauls guide
A Soldotna big game guide hired to protect seismic workers from brown bears was mauled Tuesday morning as he approached a den housing a sow and two cubs in the hills northeast of Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula.
Treadwell mauling happened during the day, Park Service says
Bear attack wasn't first for jogger
Bear mauling victim Scott Mac-Innes was in the intensive care unit of Central Peninsula General Hospital in Soldotna on Tuesday starting on the long road back to recovery, while some were wondering how one guy could be so unlucky.
Teen survives brown bear mauling
The pain wasn't registering yet, but Cody Williams could hear the damage as the bear clawed and chewed on him.
Hikers survive mauling
A hiker bushwacking through thick brush near Lake Clark in Western Alaska was seriously mauled by a grizzly bear Wednesday after attacking the animal to free a companion.
Kodiak hunter mauled
A brown bear severely mauled a U.S. Coast Guardsman who was hunting deer Monday morning on an island near Kodiak.
Deer hunter battles grizzly, ends up winner
Sixty-eight-year-old Gene Moe was butchering a deer on Raspberry Island on Monday when a grizzly bear jumped him, knocked him to the ground and began to maul him.
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