Coastal Brown Bear in the Rain #1

Subject: Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) I fondly grew to call Big Guy.

Expedition: this photo was taken on our 2024 expedition to the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Read the story behind this photo.

The story behind this photo: At a time in my life when I really needed it, a stranger told me a proverb about the cow and the buffalo. When a storm approaches, the cow runs away, prolonging its discomfort, while the buffalo charges into it, seeking to shorten the ordeal. At the time, I needed to embrace my inner buffalo. But after spending four days in the rain with Big Guy I realized there’s a third approach: to accept the storm for what it is–a transitory event–and trust that, like all things, it too will pass. So why let it bog you down.

Location: K’ootz/Khutze Conservancy, Great Bear Rainforest – in the asserted traditional territory of the Gitga’at and Kitasoo First Nations. British Columbia, Canada.

K’ootz/Khutze Conservancy protects a very scenic fiord, the entire watershed of the Khutze River, scenic mountains, coastal old-growth forests, high value brown bear/grizzly bear habitat, salmon spawning streams, marbled murrelets and low-elevation Sitka spruce forests. The conservancy can only be accessed by boat of floatplane.

About Coastal Brown Bears: Sometimes called grizzlies, coastal brown bears differ from their inland cousins in a few key ways, mainly their location, which shapes their diet and physical traits (morphology). While grizzlies prefer subalpine forests and meadows, coastal brown bears stick to the coast and rivers; their protein-rich ocean diet helping them to grow larger than grizzlies. Their paws and snouts are well-suited for digging up estuarine roots, foraging invertebrates, picking berries, and catching spawning salmon. Grizzlies are currently considered a subspecies of brown bear reflecting how environment drives adaptation. However, there is still a lot of debate as to whether the are genetically distinct enough to warrant being a subspecies. There are three species of bear in Canada: black bear, brown bear, and polar bear.

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