On a recent Saturday in June, Donna Gail Shaw trudged through chest-high brush in Anchorage’s city’s Far North Bicentennial Park with a .44-caliber handgun strapped over her pink long-sleeved shirt and two cans of bear spray on her hip.
She sounded an air horn as she walked. She wanted to scare away any animals. Because of her nine trail cameras in the area, she knows that there’s a lot of wildlife all around her.
“I get lynx, wolves, coyotes, foxes, brown bears, black bears, moose,” she said. “I get all those animals and interactions with them. I’ve seen bears mating, I’ve seen moose fighting. I’ve seen wolves that (take) down moose, bears fishing.”…