Alaska Stories

Natural Habitat Adventures

Part 2: Nat Hab’s Mayella Krause Bikes the Iditarod: Tackling the World’s Toughest Race

Read Part 1 of Maya's epic adventure here! Day 5: CP5 Rohn to Bear Creek Cabin (mile 228) Miles ridden: 23  Miles pushed: 20 Wrong turns: 1 Total hours of...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Urgent: Help Protect the Bears of Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park!

Last year, many of you lent your voices to help stop a mining project that would have devastated Alaska’s Bristol Bay and its wildlife and other...

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Megan Brief

Get to Know the Intrepid Women Who Inspired Our Expedition Camps

Nat Hab's mission is Conservation through Exploration: protecting our planet by inspiring travelers, supporting local communities and boldly influencing the...

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Rebecca Self

Potential for Roaring Success: Bear Tourism Boosts Local Economies in Southwest Alaska

Southwest Alaska is home to some of the most spectacular wildlife in the world, including majestic brown bears roaming its forests, and especially its rivers...

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Rebecca Self

Paws Over Picks: Conservation Travel’s Role in Southwest Alaska’s Economy

Around the world, responsibly managed conservation travel, including ecotourism, benefits the natural environment, wildlife and local populations. Most often...

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WWF

Southwest Alaska: Conservation Wins and Travel Awes

By Breanna Giovanniello (WWF Online Marketing Senior Specialist) and Katy Lai (WWF Director, Private Finance Sector Strategy and Engagement) Our trip began in...

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Megan Brief

Behind the Scenes With ‘The Bear Coast’ Director, Andrew Ackerman

"Our goal with this film is to educate a broader audience and elicit an empathetic emotional response that shifts the hearts and minds of viewers to better...

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Samantha Miller

A Summer “Bear Camp” Adventure For the Young-Hearted

Welcome to Lake Clark National Park and Reserve, Alaska’s premier isolated wilderness. Lake Clark lies north of Katmai National Park and across Cook Inlet,...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

New Nat Hab Short Film Offers Mesmerizing Portrait of Alaska’s Brown Bears

"The beauty of the Bear Coast area is that we don't have to restore anything; it's here, we just have to protect it." – Steve MacLean, World Wildlife Fund...

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Megan Brief

The EPA Blocks Pebble Mine: Bristol Bay and Its Bears Are Saved!

The 13-year battle for Bristol Bay reached a triumphant culmination on January 30, 2023. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invoked its Clean Water Act...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Roads: The Winter and Wildlife Kind

Travel is back. And it’s back in a big way. Following the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, flying is rebounding. But road trips remain one of the most popular forms...

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Michelle Peters

Bunk With a Brown Bear: Nat Hab’s New Alaska Bear Camp

Soar by bush plane over Cook Inlet, active volcanoes and massive glaciers en route to a pristine beach in the Alaskan wilderness. Today, you’re headed to...

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Megan Brief

Traveler Story: Photographing Katmai’s Grizzlies & Winning The Washington Post’s Photo Contest

“With many pandemic-era travel restrictions in the rearview mirror, we are out in the world again. The winning entries in our 23rd annual photo contest were...

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WWF

Sights and Sounds of Alaska

By Kelley Ashford, Sr. Video Specialist, Development, WWF-US  &  Mónica Echeverría-Cota, Deputy Director, Media and Strategic Communications, WWF-US  We...

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Joel Centano

A Wildlife Photographer on Social Media, Saving the Planet and Getting the Perfect Grizzly Shot

Delve into Dana Cama’s bio, and it seems her life path was destined to lead to her role as social media manager for Natural Habitat Adventures. After...

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Ruksana Hussain

5 Prehistoric Animals You Can Meet on Your Next Adventure

When you hear the term ‘prehistoric animals,’ you likely think of creatures that are long gone. Dinosaurs. Woolly mammoths. Saber-toothed tigers. But plenty...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Sharing Salmon: Bears and People

Fat Bear Week recently announced the 2022 champion: 747 (aka "Bear Force One"). If you’re not familiar with this contest, it’s a competition where you can...

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Michelle Peters

See Alaska’s Big Five: Brown Bear, Moose, Gray Wolf, Caribou & Dall Sheep

There’s a new “Big Five” in town. Well, in Alaska, that is. Go beyond the famous quintuplet of creatures found on an African safari and head north, instead,...

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