We are proud to announce that Nat Hab’s very own guide Brad Josephs will be starring in Discovery Channel’s “Great Bear Stakeout,” a two hour special about the vulnerable American grizzly bear population of Alaska’s wilderness. It is premiering on Discovery Channel this Sunday, May 12 at 9pmET/PT. Viewers have seen short clips of grizzly [...]
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Rewilding: Reintroducing Wild Wood Bison to Alaska
After more than one hundred years of absence from the United States, a wild population of North America’s largest land mammal may soon be reintroduced to Alaska: wood bison. Larger than plains bison (Bison bison bison) — which may weigh up to 1,900 pounds — wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) bulls tip the scale at [...]
Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”
Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate. In the recently released Chasing Ice, National Geographic photographer James Balog trains revolutionary, time-lapse cameras on glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and Glacier National Park in order to capture a multiyear, undeniable [...]
Will Arctic Animals Be Able to Outrun a Tundra Turning to Forest?
Hear the phrase “global warming,” and you immediately picture your hometown with a hotter climate. You imagine a line of more southerly plants marching northward to where you live. In turn, as they advance, you can mentally see the plant species you’re now used to packing up, so to speak, and moving away from you [...]
Crittercam: Grizzly Bear Catches a Salmon
Photos of grizzly bears catching salmon over Brooks Falls in Alaska (such as the one above, taken by Steve Morello) have become iconic images for the state and for the still-wild areas of America in general. And anyone who has been to Brooks has witnessed heart-thumping scenes just like this one. But here’s a twist [...]
Polar Bears Are Older than We Thought — and They Come from Ireland
Scientists — and those of us who are polar bear enthusiasts — have long thought that polar bears started off as brown bears about 150,000 years ago, adapting to their cold environment by developing smaller ears, thicker fur, and teeth ideally shaped to tear into seal flesh. But a new, international study coming out of [...]
