A family of five black bears is roaming an Alaska neighborhood, toppling trash cans as the group rummages for food and scaring some residents who believe the animals are the same ones seen in the area last summer.
Restrictions on bag limits and season length will start July 1 for both the Western Arctic and Teshekpuk herds, whose numbers are dropping. Restrictions will affect both resident and nonresident hunters.
The caribou are crossing at different times and locations as the years go by.
11-29-14 Mollusks in moose gut - Egegik, Alaska, USA
4-25-14 Rare brown bear visit - Bethel, Alaska, USA
Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.
1-23-14 Coyote sighting - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.
11-11-13 Weather effects caribou migration and season - Barrow, Alaska, USA
9-5-13 Caribou delayed - Kiana, Alaska, USA
Thawing permafrost and river bank collapsed on the Cheenik Creek.
When a scientist went to an uninhabited island in Nunavut to set up a research station he stumbled across something else: dozens of dead caribou.
It's not common to see animals of any kind, including moose, in the community of Pitkas Point.
4-22-13 wolf roaming city - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
4-21-13 Early brown bear - Pedro Bay, Alaska, USA
2-2-13 Many wolf sightings - Togiak, Alaska, USA
Black bears are not normally seen during this time of the year.
St. Marys residents concerned about possible interactions
1-17-13 Winter brown bear - St Marys, Alaska, USA
A rare sighting to observe a brown bear in January.
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