by Nils Pedersen | Jan 29, 2026 | Media
Photo Credit: Teksti ja kuvat: Mari Lohisalo 22.12.2025 The car turns onto Vääräjärventie Road in the northern part of Posio. There are no onlookers in sight, only a few occasional reindeer lazily glance at the passing car. After a while, a sign in the shape of a...
by Nils Pedersen | Sep 16, 2025 | Media
Outside the Interior Alaska community of Delta Junction, firefighters have been working to contain wildfires for weeks. And as if that job wasn’t hard enough, some crews are having trouble with bears. Ben Gage, a spokesperson for the crews working around...
by Nils Pedersen | Mar 15, 2023 | Media
We are pleased to announce the arrival of our 2022 Wind River Karelian Bear Dog Puppy Litter: Erauspojan Inka x Wind River John’s Mowgli. On December 12, 2022, Inka gave birth to 15 beautiful puppies. This is a record number of pups for our Program and perhaps...
by Nils Pedersen | Aug 19, 2022 | Media
Protection. Insurance. Morale boosters. This is how firefighters on the Dalton Highway Complex describe Mardy and Rio, the two Karelian bear dogs who help to keep them safe from bears, moose, and other large animals. Currently, firefighters on the northern end of the...
by Nils Pedersen | Aug 19, 2022 | Media
In 2003, when the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife launched their Karelian Bear Dog Program (KBDP) with one dog, Mishka, it was viewed as an anomaly, an outlier, a longshot that would probably fail. Yet it didn’t. Instead, it was successful and quickly...
by Nils Pedersen | Mar 29, 2022 | Media
You can’t scare easily when all that stands between you and a 600-pound grizzly is a couple of barking dogs. Carrie Hunt apparently comes by that naturally. The founder and director of Florence’s Wind River Institute–Wind River Karelian Bear Dog Partners has spent...
