Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Bear pepper spray should be used as a deterrent only in an aggressive or attacking confrontation ...

Rangers reveal why bear spray outperforms guns in real park encounters The post Guns vs. Bear Spray: What National Park ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A study concludes that bear spray works a great majority of the time in warding off bear attacks. Biologist Tom Smith and others have published a paper of their research in ' ...

Bear spray doesn’t supply “brains in a can” to survive a grizzly attack, but it appears to work a lot better than spraying bullets. That’s the conclusion researchers presented to more than 300 bear ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. On Nov. 2 a hunter near Placid Lake shot and killed a charging grizzly. On Oct. 7 a hunter in the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A canister of bear spray is a crucial emergency item to have on hand when adventuring in bear territory. According to numerous bear experts, ...

John Clarke knows what it’s like to be bear-sprayed. Last year, the bear safety consultant was out on a trail near Canmore when a friend’s can of spray in a waist belt holster was accidentally ...

LANDER — As bears begin to emerge from dens in the greater Yellowstone National Park ecosystem, a new study says carrying a gun into bear country doesn’t make you any safer. Tom Smith, a professor of ...

Many years ago, while fishing in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley, I found myself wishing I’d brought along some bear spray. I was hacking through some dense underbrush, finding my way to where it met the ...