Being Watched by a Big Brown Bear Acrylic Print

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Being Watched by a Big Brown Bear

A male brown bears aka grizzly bears found at Silver Salmon Creek in Lake Clark National Park. We stayed with this bear for some time, watching him as he grazed on sedge grass, and then later took a refreshing dip in the nearby creek.

While genetically these brown bears here are the same as grizzlies, their behavior tends to be less aggressive due to better and more plentiful food sources. There are various subspecies of the brown bear, including the kodiak that lives on certain Alaskan islands, that tends to be larger. While brown bears are among the species of least concern, it is important to note that subspecies have been hunted to extinction (California, Mexico) and other bear species around the world are severely endangered. Alaskan hunting regulations on wildlife refuges have just been greatly loosened.

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Welcome to my page! There's a lot of photography here, so feel free to make multiple visits. The work can be viewed in galleries or you can search by keywords or title. I have a passion for the natural world and the living creatures that inhabit those places. The stunning beauty of our world and the wild animals that share this earth with us deserve to be revered and protected. In 2019, I was honored to have my work, Cougar Reservoir On A Snowy Day, published in the UK Sunday Times for their interview with Barry Lopez, the nature writer. In addition, recently, three large prints of waterfalls (Spirit Falls with Reflection, Moon Falls, and Pinard Falls), were bought by the Cottage Grove Ranger District Office to decorate their new work...