Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear in Alaska. Photographer Valerie Van Griethuysen was at Brooks Falls watching this brown bear catch salmon. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tips
Being an inveterate introvert, I avoid large crowds—well, really, even groups of people numbering 15 or more—like the plague.
Alaska
I am in a river. IN a river. In Alaska at Brooks Falls, and I can’t go anywhere because a bear has plopped herself down 25 yards away from me, my group, and our guide, with the 40-degree water swirling around our wader-clad knees. I am on a river walk.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose bears in Katmai National Park. Photographer James Beedle was visiting Hallo Bay when he photographed this mother and yearling munching on grass. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Conservation
Gold and copper may hold lucrative prospects for some investors, but mining doesn’t pay out for Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The proposed open pit Pebble Mine near Katmai National Park would rob salmon, bears and people of their natural environment and resource-based sustenance.
Alaska
Three commercial flights, a float plane, a two-hundred-ton marine vessel, and a raft; followed by a trek through swamps, rocky shorelines, and dense brush. This was my journey to the isolated wilderness of Alaska’s Katmai Peninsula. As a member of WWF’s Media & External Affairs team, I work from my desk in Washington D.C.
Alaska
It’s exactly the kind of wild natural scenery you envision when you picture “Alaska”—snow-capped peaks towering above a placid creek that gently winds its way through a verdant valley in the remote wilderness of the Alaska Peninsula.
Alaska
A mother grizzly bear and her two cubs were walking about 5 feet in front of our line of travelers in Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Alaska
“What is your favorite trip?” Well, I get asked that quite a bit after 22 years of planning trips for Natural Habitat Adventures, and I have done most of them. My answer was always our Uganda safari to see the mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and some lesser-knows primates such as the black-and-white colobus monkey.
Travel Tales
By Nat Hab Traveler Mary Glaser | The Great Alaskan Grizzly Encounter I had so many fond memories from our trip to Katmai National Park, but one of my favorite stories was when we went ashore in Kukak Bay and watched a dramatic soap opera unfold between five brown bears—four male and one female.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear out of Alaska. Photographer Dan Schlotter captured this moment while bear watching in Katmai National Park. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature & Wildlife
As a life-long Alaskan, Katmai National Park has always held a magical place in my heart. It was a land of volcanoes, bears, salmon, and green mountains plunging towards the sea. This summer, I had the opportunity to make my dream a reality with Nat Hab’s Great Alaskan Grizzly Encounter.
