You can now vote on your favorite 'hefty hero' at Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve in a March Madness-style bracket.
Fall, however, is for fat bears -- and for Katmai National Park
The contest is "a way to celebrate the resilience, adaptability and strength of Katmai's brown bears," the park says on its website. And unlike March Madness with separate men's and women's teams, female bears get in on the action in the same contest. The live cam from the river is a popular online feature, garnering more than 900 viewers at 7:45 p.m. ET Tuesday, for example.
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Fat Bear Week returns: Help this Alaska national park name its biggest bearWednesday marks the beginning of this year's Fat Bear Week, an annual tradition that celebrates roughly 2,200 brown bears that call Katmai National Park home, many of which are among the largest in the world. Here's who this year's field features.
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Oh Chonky Joy: Fat Bear Week Is BackTwelve bears living at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are once again competing to be the sultan of heft.
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Storm expected to hit areas of Western Alaska damaged by last month’s typhoon remnantsGale-force winds and high waves could again strike a handful of Western Alaska communities that are largely still in recovery mode, with a potentially damaging storm on track to hit the region later this week.
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Hometown Alaska: Telling Alaska's storyOn today's Hometown, Alaska, we heard from Alaska's current writer laureate Heather Lende, who is focused on sharing her platform with other writers penning Alaska’s story. We'll meet two of those writers- Lorelai Ivanoff and Leigh Newman. Listen now.
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Alaska Permanent Fund board names new CEO to manage $74 billion portfolioThe Alaska Permanent Fund’s board of trustees named acting Revenue Commissioner Deven Mitchell as the corporation’s new chief executive officer Monday to manage the $74-billion fund
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A new storm could hit parts of Western Alaska pummeled by last month’s typhoon remnantsA special statement from the National Weather Service said strong winds are expected to move into the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea Wednesday afternoon with an elevated risk of coastal flooding from the Bering Strait to Point Hope Wednesday night into Friday.
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