Fat Bear Week champions over the years ... in brown bears," officials wrote on the contest website. Perhaps the 2024 winner will mate, produce another cub and hit a trifecta next year.

The injured cub died later, and the surviving cub competed in Fat Bear Junior 2024 ... another Fat Bear Week newbie, beat Bear #909, the mother of the junior contest's winner.

The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and even with a voting scandal, 747 was crowned this year's champion of chonk – the bear's second title in three years. The weeklong ...

But only one can take the crown and be named the 2024 Fat Bear Week Champion ... and a handful have their own nicknames. In 2022, the winner of Fat Bear Week was Bear 747 (Bear Force One ...

And that opportunity, literally, might be extremely big.” In all, hunters harvested 2,642 bears during the 2024 seasons, placing the harvest in the top 25 on record. And once again Pennsylvania ...

Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat ... Bear 909 Jr., who last week won the Fat Bear Junior competition for the second time, will face Bear 519, a young female, in the first round. The ...

HARRISBURG – Hunters heading north during the months of May and June in pursuit of Canadian black bear have a good chance of taking a trophy during their week at ... be extremely big.” In all, hunters ...