Alaska teacher mauled by bear on student outing

Alaska teacher mauled by bear on student outing

Forest Wagner, 35, of Fairbanks, was with a accumulation of 12 acceptance on Mount Emmerich abreast Haines, Alaska, if he was attacked, according to University of Alaska Southeast backer Kate Bausler. A apprentice hiked down the abundance to get corpuscle accession and alarm for help.

A man who teaches classes on the outdoors was aching by a buck Monday during a mountaineering chic in the Alaska Panhandle, according to a university spokeswoman.

Alaska State Troopers got a alarm from the Haines Police Department at about apex Monday. According to their report, they removed Wagner from the abundance via helicopter and put him on addition LifeMed helicopter afore demography him to a hospital.

Troopers backer Megan Peters wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Wagner had been taken to an Anchorage hospital. None of the hospitals that yield agony patients in Anchorage had almanac of his arrival.

His action is currently alien but his next of kin accept been notified of the attack, according to troopers.

According to Wagner's teaching schedule, he was allotment of a Mountaineering 101 chic that was appointed to appear down off of the abundance by Tuesday. He has been analogous and teaching in the alfresco studies affairs at the university aback 2006, according to his biography. He teaches bedrock and ice climbing, backcountry navigation, berg biking and mountaineering.

The buck was sighted afresh afterwards the mauling and Bausler said the 12 acceptance in the mountaineering chic were taken down from the abundance and are spending the night in Haines with addition professor. They are appointed to yield the buck aback to Juneau on Tuesday, she said.

It's the additional mauling appear in Alaska aural days.

A 77-year-old buck hunter is convalescent from injuries suffered if he was aching by a grizzly in autogenous Alaska.

Troopers on Monday said hunter Glenn Bohn of Wasilla was attacked by the buck abreast Mile 68 of the Denali Highway just afterwards 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

The 135-mile alley runs east to west and connects the Richardson and Parks highways east of Denali National Park.

Bohn's hunting accomplice dead the bear. Bohn was apprenticed by snowmobile to the Denali Highway area a LifeMed Alaska helicopter flew him to an Anchorage hospital.

Wildlife troopers, advisers of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and accompany of Bohn removed the buck from the acreage Saturday.

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