Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Brown Bear Fishing

    Mar 11, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a brown bear with the catch of the day. Photographer Steve Grodin captured this moment while visiting Katmai National Park in Alaska. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • News & More

    Missing Winter: the Iditarod and the American Birkebeiner

    Mar 8, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In January 1925, the children of Nome, Alaska, were dying. They were suffering from diphtheria. The town’s only physician, Dr. Curtis Welch, feared the epidemic would spread throughout Nome’s population of 1,400.

  • Videos

    Video: The Great Migration of the Sandhill Crane

    Feb 18, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Each spring, more than 500,000 sandhill cranes come together on a narrow stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska, as they have for thousands of years.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Keeping a Wary Eye Out

    Nov 27, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose Alaskan brown bears in Hallo Bay. Photographer Tony Boot took this photo as the mother bear kept a watch on a male grizzly nearby. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Conservation

    What I've Learned from a Salmon's Travels

    Nov 18, 2015 · WWF

    I was pondering the cycle of life yesterday as I walked along a creek full of spawning salmon in Juneau, Alaska where I live. I’m somewhere in the middle of that cycle with young kids and aging parents serving as my bookends.

  • News & More

    Applauding Paris: Climate Change Conference 2015 Will Go On

    Nov 17, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, starting on November 30, 2015.

  • Travel Tips

    5 Tips for Photographing Grizzly Bears

    Oct 12, 2015 · Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

    The opportunity to experience and photograph a giant brown bear in its natural habitat is, in a word, awesome! And photos don’t lie. In fact, we would go so far as to suggest that images of Alaska’s enormous brown bears are among the most iconic wildlife photos on Earth.

  • Alaska

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Alaska Bear Buddies

    Oct 9, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected these adorable bear buddies. Photographer Steve Grodin captured this image while photographing bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Grizzly Staring Contest

    Sep 11, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a grizzly bear coming face-to-face with his potential dinner in Brooks Falls. Photographer Jeff Goldberg captured this photo while visiting Alaska with Nat Hab.

  • News & More

    Wolves Return to California, but for How Long?

    Aug 25, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    After almost a century, wolves have come home to California. On August 20, 2015, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that it had photographic evidence from a trail camera that two gray wolf adults and five pups had taken up residence in southeastern Siskiyou County in northern California.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Brown Bear of Hallo Bay

    Aug 21, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a beautiful portrait of a brown bear in Alaska. Photographer Jeff Goldberg took this photo one afternoon in Hallo Bay while on a trip to Alaska with Nat Hab.