This huge male brown bear is just a few hundred yards from the line dividing Katmai park from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Unit 9 hunting area. This area includes Moraine and Funnel Creek, popular bear viewing areas for visitors from around the world. This year, the state opened the hunting season a week earlier- October 1st. In most of Unit 9, there is unlimited take of brown bears. In the first week of this October, we observed a slaughter of brown bears that just days before we’re

A curious young brown bear comes over to take a look at our group. She heard us pull the plane up to the beach and carefully approached close enough to watch us, but not too close- for either us or herself. We might of been the most interesting thing she saw all day, as many of the other bears weren’t down from the mountains yet and no one else was around. #curious #bear #brownbears #alaskawildlife #wildlifeplanet #springtime #animalplanet #travelalaska #wild #wildlife @kodiakairservice | Kodiak

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