If I asked you to picture a brown bear, there’s a good chance you’d image one of Alaska’s massive bears standing in a stream, fishing for salmon. Can you see it now? More likely than not, you’re picturing Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve. Don’t know it by name? Well, I’m sure you’ll recognize it by sight.
Together, Katmai National Parks’s brown bears and sockeye salmon make a positive feedback loop that creates a system of resources benefitting the area’s wildlife, plant life, and ecosystem as a whole.
Dominated by three prominent features, the Ugashik-Peulik volcano, Becharof Lake, and the ocean coastline of Shelikof Strait, the 1,200,000 million-acre refuge supports outstanding biodiversity on the land, in the water, and through the air.
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Earlier this month, WildLandscapes’ ecologist, Marta Prat-Guitart, traveled to King Salmon, Alaska, forwarding movement on our work in the region's public lands. What follows is an interview on the significance of Bristol Bay and its wildlife, with Marta, providing insight into the work we are doing there, why it’s important, and what about it that inspires her.
