A man crouches behind a tree to photograph a nearby brown bear sow and four cubs in the Chilkoot River on Sunday, August 24, 2025, near Haines, Alaska.
What was once commonly called the “bear monitoring” program is being revived along the Chilkoot Corridor in Haines. The new Alaska Department of Fish and Game hire is meant to keep bears, and people, safer.
Fish and Game has hired a technician to…