Alaska
“This was our seventh trip with Nat Hab. Our remote location and the proximity to the bears made it one of the most memorable. When we stepped onto Katmai’s shore for the first time, our guide, Sean, told us we were 160 miles from the nearest improved road.
Alaska
Katmai National Park is a realm of untrammeled rivers, pristine streams and clear lakes. The park and the greater Alaska Peninsula are part of the Bristol Bay Watershed, which, according to World Wildlife Fund, is the most productive salmon ecosystem in North America.
Nature & Wildlife
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a curious polar bear in Alaska. Photographer Leigh Lofgren Captured this polar bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
News & More
Forest fires hit home particularly hard in 2019, as people in every corner of the Earth watched the world burn. Abnormal Arctic fires occurred in Alaska, Greenland and Russia’s Siberian province, which houses the largest forest in the world.
Travel Tales
Where will your travels take you in 2020? It’s probably one of the most pleasant questions to ponder. I hope that you’ll go to places both far and near. Wherever you’re going, you’re sure to make some amazing memories. But as every traveler knows, memory can be—what I like to describe as—“fluid.”
Conservation
While some might say that the true travel genre of books includes those “that record the experiences of an author touring a place,” I find it worthwhile to add another component into my description of that category: environmentalism.
Nature & Wildlife
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 sow with four cubs in the Alaskan wilderness. Photographer Valerie Van Griethuysen captured this amazing image while photographing bears near Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park!
Nature & Wildlife
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 and cub in Alaska. Photographer George Beller captured this moment in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature & Wildlife
National parks are some of our favorite wild places, set aside for all of us to enjoy and for wildlife to find some yet remaining, far-too-scarce natural habitats. Here, in these lands, we can recharge, find solace and connect and reconnect with our families.
Alaska
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a grizzly feeding on salmon in Alaska. Photographer Elaine Schmitt captured this awesome image at Brooks Falls! Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Alaska
Every summer, from about mid-June to mid-October, the grizzly bears at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are featured in a live-cam show that you can watch via Explore.org. And once or twice a week during that time period, Mike Fitz, resident naturalist with Explore.org, hosts a live “chat” with the audience.
Nature & Wildlife
Our Planet developed a sense of urgency. The 8-part series, which can be streamed on Netflix, has created conversation on the danger wildlife faces. Listening to Sir David Attenborough’s voice bellow over sweeping scenes of fragile beauty is both relaxing and upsetting.
