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Photographer in Alaska: Grizzly Bear Fight

October 6, 2015October 5, 2015 Science Connectedbears, grizzly bears, wild alaska, wildlife photography

By Max Goldberg This is the next installment of wildlife photographer Max Goldberg’s tales of wild grizzly bears in Alaska. After crossing a river in our waders, we found the mother and three little cubs on the bank of another river. We set up our cameras and tripods and watched the little cubs climb over their mother and goof off, getting shots of the raw cuteness. Now, we were sitting in a large open marshland, with hungry male bears all over the area–not where a mother of three new–born cubs…

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Photographer in Alaska: Grazing Grizzly Bears

August 18, 2015September 20, 2015 Science ConnectedAlaska, animals, bears, grizzly bears, wild alaska, wildlife photography

By Max Goldberg, Contributing Photographer Grazing Grizzly Bears: This is the second installment of wildlife photographer Max Goldberg’s latest Alaskan Adventure. After spending a few days at Brooks Lodge, my father and I went back to Anchorage, Alaska, and took three flights to our next destination: the Natural Habitat Ursus. The Ursus is an old crab–fishing boat converted into a floating home–from–home, and our base for the next week. Every morning, we would eat breakfast, put on our waders, get into a skiff, and go to shore looking for bears. …

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Photographer’s Adventures with Grizzly Bears

July 29, 2015May 12, 2016 Science ConnectedAlaska, bears, brown bear, natural habitat, nature photography, salmon run, wildlife photography

Article and Photos by Max Goldberg After an eight-hour plane ride from Chicago, and a day to get over the jet lag, the first stop for my father and I on our week-and-a-half trip to Alaska was Brooks Lodge. Brooks Lodge is a camp in the heart of the Katmai National Park, and it is famous for two things: fishing and bears. Upon getting off the float plane that got us to the Lodge, we were briefed on the area, the grizzly bears, and the basics of surviving an encounter…