Full grown, mature male coastal brown bear boar (grizzly bear) in sedge grass meadows.
Portrait of a young brown bear, pausing while grazing in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers.
Brown bear walks on tide flats. Grizzly bear.
Juvenile female coastal brown bear (grizzly bear) grazes on sedge grass.
Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers.
A brown bear mother (sow) stands in tall sedge grass to look for other approaching bears that may be a threat to her cubs.
Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers.
Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide.
Johnson River, side waters and tidal sloughs, flowing among sedge grass meadows before emptying into Cook Inlet.
Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, spruce trees and Chigmit Range.
Photographers and brown bear.
Brown bear paw print on sand.
Grass backlit by the setting sun.
Grass backlit by the setting sun.
Pond covered with water lilys, near Silver Salmon Creek.
Glaucus-winged gull picks up piece of razor clam left behind by a brown bear on tide flat.
Sedge grass meadows, spruce trees, and blue sky.