Living in the Alaska rainforest with 1,000 bears: ‘Not the easiest place to be homeless’

As housing prices increase in the picturesque town of Sitka, those already living on the edge are pushed off further into the wilderness

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At a bend in a rushing river in the Alaska wilderness, the hatch of a nylon tent unzipped. A slight, curly-haired man in a vest emerged.

Unhoused in the world's largest temperate rainforest, Jacob Carroll said it was no one's goddamn business" how long he had been living in the woods, just outside the remote fishing town of Sitka. But he did agree to recount a few of his multiple encounters" with bears.