Anchorage hillside residents have reported several incidents of brown bears killing unsecured chickens and smashing their coops since May, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Reports are scattered across the city’s Hillside neighborhoods, near De Armoun, Huffman and O’Malley Roads.
The Hillside culprits are a bear family consisting of a sow and two yearlings, according to the department’s Anchorage Area Biologist Cory Stantorf…