WRANGELL, Alaska — The nation’s largest national forest, the Tongass, blankets 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, in which everything is connected to everything else, with salmon the centerpiece.

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A black bear feeding on a salmon at Neet’s Bay north of Ketchikan. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst NEET'S BAY, Alaska -- Most people come to Alaska to see three things: glaciers, whales and bears. Of ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

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