Don’t worry, Katmai’s brown bears didn’t vanish from Brooks Falls

If you’ve been spending the summer keeping cool in the great indoors watching the famous brown bears (Ursus arctos) of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, you may have noticed fewer bears on camera recently. But do not panic.Every year in late June, the brown bears return to Brooks Falls for the salmon migration. Now that August has arrived, the salmon have reached their spawning grounds and are more spread out in the Brooks River. Since the fish dispersed, the bears must spread o