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Brooks Camp,
Katmai National Park,
Alaska

Map: Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park, Alaska

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  • As part of the move to Katmai National Park, we had to install a completely new camera system for this season's WildCam Grizzlies. The National Park Service, RealNetworks, and National Geographic have been working hard on this for the last several months. However, due to the remote location, we have had challenges due to weather and terrain, as well as some technical set-backs. We hope to start streaming live video in early September, during the second salmon run. In the meantime, check out the commentary from Brooks Camp in the "From the Falls" thread in the forum. Thank you for your patience!

About Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Photo: Grizzly bear

While some people differentiate among coastal brown bears, grizzly bears, and Kodiak bears, we are using the terms "grizzlies" and "brown bears" interchangeably.

Photograph by Roy Wood

Alaska's Katmai National Park is home to more than 2,000 grizzly bears—and every summer, around a hundred of these behemoths converge on Brooks Camp for a salmon feeding frenzy.

Vast and remote, Katmai covers almost five million acres (two million hectares) of Alaskan land and is accessible only by plane or boat. The park was established in 1918 to preserve the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an extremely deep ash flow created from the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Every year in late June, Brooks Camp becomes the scene of a spectacular natural phenomenon as bears begin to congregate, drawn by their appetite for spawning salmon.

The National Park Service and the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska—partners in making WildCam Grizzlies possible—are committed to educating the public and fostering the conservation of Brooks Camp’s brown bears and their habitat.

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