Brown bears congregate along the river in katmai national park in Alaska searching for and fishing for salmon

Brown Bears Searching

Alaska, USA

Each year, sockeye salmon runs inundate the backcountry rivers of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. They navigate from the open ocean into the rivers, lakes, and streams, back to the headwaters in which they were hatched. There they spawn and lay the eggs that will give rise to the next generation. Tens of millions of Sockeye salmon enter the park’s waters each year.

As the salmon concentrate, so do the bears. It is estimated that 2,200 brown bears inhabit the park, one of the highest densities in the world. Many of these normally solitary bears head toward the waterways, moving upstream with the salmon, gorging themselves along the way.

Photo © copyright by Dr. Edward Mikol.

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