Sep 21 2024
Brooks Falls is one of the most famous wildlife-viewing destinations in Katmai National Park and Preserve. Each summer, sockeye salmon surge upstream through the Brooks River while Alaska brown bears gather around the falls to take advantage of one of the richest seasonal food sources in the region. The scene has become iconic. Bears stand …
Sep 19 2024
The brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve are among the most famous wild animals in North America. Each summer, bears gather along salmon-rich rivers, roam coastal sedge meadows, dig for clams on tidal flats, and move through an enormous Alaska wilderness where food remains abundant and human development is limited. About 2,200 brown …
Jun 27 2024
Katmai National Park and Preserve protects one of the wildest landscapes in Alaska, a place where enormous brown bears gather beside salmon-filled rivers, active volcanoes rise above glacier-carved valleys, and the remains of the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century stretch across an ash-filled wilderness known as the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Located …
