Brooks Camp Field Report, September 2016: River of Cubs
The photos and commentary below were part of a much longer field report. Now that the bears of Brooks River are so much better known, most of what I recorded then seems superfluous, but some of the photos and commentary are still worth sharing. Above all I wanted to share an incident involving 128/Grazer and her cubs that taught me a lot about bear families. Part of what is meant by the title "River of Cubs" is that there were many cubs on the river that year. The other part is a reference I will leave it to the reader to figure out, if they haven't already. My reason for posting this here and not on my other blog, "Bear in Camp!" is that I was with Interp at the time of this report, and not bear management. Also, I'm getting around to putting this up more than two years after my final post (" Holly Gets the Last Word ") on that blog, and I want Holly to forever have the last word. ...