Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)

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BEARS of the last frontier by Chris Morgan... The Alaskan Peninsula is a special place. If I were a bear, this is where I'd want to live. It's as close to paradise as it gets for a large mammal that demands space and plenty to eat. In this isolated region of southwest Alaska the Pacific Ocean delivers rich nutrients to beaches and estuaries that feed verdant coastal sedge meadows. These in turn give way to a spine of volcanoes that stretch nearly 500 miles along a coast that has changed very little in thousands of years. It's the perfect backdrop for a "city of bears."
From the very moment you set foot on the beach here you are in bear country. Around 9,000 of them live on the Alaskan Peninsula. In fact, there are so many bears, and the place feels so wild that it offers a rare opportunity to step back in time, to a landscape that still feels like the Pleistocene of 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago when dire wolves, mastodons, and giant short-faced bears roamed.   Reply