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STATE McClatchy Newspapers Alaska could have a new international celebrity: a nearly 70-year-old retired school teacher who has spent the past two decades hiding from the public eye in an effort to conceal his intimate love affair with a large gang of black and grizzly bears.

Alaska 'bear man' ready for his international close-up

 Wild friends: Retired teacher Charlie Vandergaw tends to a grizzly bear at his homestead in the Yentna Valley, just 50 miles northwest of Anchorage.
Courtesy Of Alaska Department Of Fish And Game / Anchorage Daily News
Wild friends: Retired teacher Charlie Vandergaw tends to a grizzly bear at his homestead in the Yentna Valley, just 50 miles northwest of Anchorage.
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