The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River Fitz Michael
The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River Fitz Michael On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far…
Specifikacia The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River Fitz Michael
The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River Fitz Michael
On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. As the salmon leap from the cascade, dozens of bears are there to catch them (with as many as forty-three bears sighted in a single day), and thousands of people come to watch in person or on the National Park Service's popular Brooks Falls Bearcam.The Bears of Brooks Falls tells the story of this region and the bears that made it famous in three parts. Each year, from summer to early fall, brown bears and salmon gather at Brooks River to create one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles.
The central and longest section is a deep dive into the lives of the wildlife The first forms an ecological history of the region, from its dormancy 30,000 years ago to the volcanic events that transformed it into the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.