The University of Alaska Southeast professor who was mauled by a bear near Haines a couple weeks ago is now in fair condition at Providence Hospital in Anchorage.
On April 18, 35-year-old Forest Wagner was attacked by a brown bear sow with at least one cub. He was leading nine students and two teaching assistants in a mountaineering course near Mt. Emmerich. No one else was injured.
Wagner was medevaced to Anchorage after a student used a satellite phone to call emergency services. The students were evacuated from the area by helicopter.
Emily Files is a reporter at KHNS in Haines.
