Revisiting Coastal Brown Bears

A brown bear sow fishes in the McNeil River sanctuary. Photo: Lora JorgensenWe’re revisiting conversations about bears on Outdoor Explorer. Our region of Alaska happens to be the best place in the world for ordinary people to get out in the woods and see lots of gigantic bears. The coastal brown bear can grow to enormous size, but while they are gorging on the salmon that make them so large, they don’t pay attention to anything else. Visitors to certain key streams can get very,