Fat Bear Week Winner

128 Grazer is the winner of Fat Bear Week in Katmai National Park, Alaska.  Grazer bested the big boys and previous winners, 32 Chunk and Bear 747.   National Park Service said she won with a combination of skill and toughness as she stuffer her face with salmon from the Brooks River. She was introduced to the river area in 2005 and has since raised two litters of cubs.  In the process she has become one of the best bear anglers on the river.  128 Grazer has been known to take on bigger males to defend her cubs.  

In other bear news: two people, an adult female and a male juvenile, were killed in a remote Alaska village by a polar bear that chased several people in the village of Wales on the Seward Peninsula, one hundred miles northwest of Nome. Wales is a predominantly Inupiaq village of 150 inhabitants,  The bear was shot and killed by a local resident.  Fatal bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history.  In 1990 a man was killed by a polar bear in Fort Lay, north of Wales. Biologists said that a necropsy showed the bear was starving.