#katmai

[forecast0ctopus]

BIG WIN FOR 128 GRAZER FANS

#fat bear week #fat bear week 2023 #fatbearweek #fatbearweek2023 #katmai national park #katmai #katmai bears #128 grazer

[fridaybear]

×,.·´¨'°÷·.. Happy Friday the 13th! ..·´¨'°÷·..× BEHOLD YOUR 2023 FAT BEAR QUEEN!

128 Grazer took the top spot, and we couldn't be more proud. All hail Grazer! Thanks for hanging with us. We appreciate you. Make your weekend amazing. 🤎 🐻 🤎

#fat bear week #fatbearweek #bears #grizzly #grizzly bears #katmai national park #katmai #alaska #alaska brown bear #friday #friday bear #outdoors #wildlife #cute #animals #grazer #128 grazer #queen #yass #chonk #big chonk

[bearotonin-international]

FAT BEAR WEEK BEGINS ON THIS FINE WET BEAST WEDNESDAY

#celebearating it with a very wet and chonky #821 Pepper #wet beast wednesday #fat bear week #katmai

[ramsaybaggins]

*HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING*

#rhys darby #TNFRDTA #totally normal for rhys darby tumblr association #fat bear week #katmai #bears #EEEEEEEE #HE'S SO PERFECT FOR THIS

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Brown bear sow and cub by Kenneth Kearney

#bear #bears #brooks river #brown bear #cub #katmai #katmai national park #national park #nature #wildlife #flickr

[emilybeemartin]

Inktober Days 19-21

Day 19: "Plump"

Fat! Bear! Week! It’s perhaps the most beloved modern tradition to come out of a national park, when enthusiasts around the globe tune in to the Katmai webcams to see the results of a summer of brown bears gorging on salmon. We root them on, following their progress as they go from springtime skin and bones to mega-autumn chonk in just a few months. Watching these immense bears prowling Brooks Falls for leaping fish is so captivating that at some parks, during slow moments in the visitor centers, we would switch on the webcam feeds at the information desk. Rangers come from all different backgrounds, with all different affiliations and alma maters, but few things bring us all together like cheering on a wild bear eating wild salmon.

Day 20: "Frost"

One of the privileges of working in northern mountain parks is the early coming of cool weather. Born and raised in South Carolina, few things make me feel more alive than a brush of autumn in August. I remember that first welcome moment in Glacier, when I climbed out of the government truck at Logan Pass for my shift in the high country. There was frost on the mountain slopes and a snap in the air. My breath fogged in front of my face, and the wind whipped through my park green sweater and jacket. Back at home, it was ninety-five degrees and humid, but on that morning, I swapped my flat hat for my fleece cap and spent the day bundled up on the Highline Trail, noting the huckleberries taking on their first tinge of crimson. I remember coming back to the tiny ranger station to find the woodburning stove crackling away, and I thought this must be what paradise was like.

Day 21: "Chains"

My first thought for this prompt was a chain of islands, but as I brushed up on Channel Islands, I realized it fits even better thanks to the chain of life that stretches from sea to land to air. Underwater terrain creates huge upwellings of nutrients that form the base of a food chain in the kelp forests, where vivid orange garibaldi and massive seabass swim among the waving fronds. Seals and sea lions spin and dive before hauling out onto beaches in noisy rookeries. Above them on the headlands, rare island foxes—only found on six of these islands and nowhere else in the world—scamper after mice and insects, occasionally coming to the shoreline for crabs. And in the skies, bald eagles, storm-petrels, and cormorants swoop down to pluck fish and other meals from the sea. And so life goes around and around on this scrappy cluster of islands.

Like these? Want extra illustrations and national park travel tips straight from the ranger's mouth? You can preorder Thirty-One Days of Inktober: The Artbook! It's a limited run--- snag yours now before they're gone!

Incidentally, I'm trying to keep international shipping down by eating a bit of the cost myself, so I hope folks outside the US don't feel left out!

#31 days of national parks #national parks #katmai #glacier #channel islands

[life-on-our-planet]

On the southern coast of Alaska grizzly bears dig up clams while the tide is low. BBC Earth | Wild Alaska

#grizzly bear #grizzlies #bear #alaska #katmai #coast #beach #mammalia #carnivora #omnivore

[caseyscraftycorner]

KATMAI BEAR PHOTODUMP

y'all i've been camping out on the katmai cams for the last three days preparing for fat bear week, because i am very mentally healthy, thankyouverymuch. Here's the highlights!

910 and her two yearlings -- her daughter and her adopted niece -- have been showing up a lot these last few days. 909jr's got just such a silly haircut. she's the one on the left, 910 & 910jr are the ones sleeping to the right. look at her. it looks like someone took an electric razor to her forehead. i love her.

132 and her cubs also made an appearance! they just all took a nap on shore for a while and then left. 10/10, tbh

402 & her cub showed up for a bit too -- and at one point the cub stood on their hind legs!!!! very very VERY cute. also 402 looking c h u n k y here :D

806jr, the Fat bear junior champion who is now in the main bracket, got separated from his mom for a while and just laid about right next to one of the cameras until she came and got him. he's SO fluffy, you guys.

Amelia, mother of 3, has also been hanging around. The cubs ran ahead and then two of them stood to turn and face momma. made my day.

bucky sure likes just sittin about, huh?

i think i already posted this one but. y'all. look at chunk in this photo. LOOK AT HIM. a perfect creature!!

Holly!! the Marshmallow Queen! this photo i think really shows both a: how big she is and b: how light colored she is. Lightly toasted marshmallow, indeed.

walker, he has such a gentle face. also he's afraid of Grazer (who i haven't seen recently) because she keeps kicking his ass lmao. but here he just looks like a sweet man. a kind lad. a gentle giant.

and that's the best ones i got! if you wanna see the matchups with the contestant's official photos, check out my post here.

#casey rambles #bears #fat bear week #katmai #katmai bears

[todaysdocument]

Cottongrass at Katmai National Park and Preserve, July 10, 1973. 

Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service

Series: Alaska Task Force Photographs

File Unit: Katmai

Image description: Cottongrass in the wind. It has thin stems tipped by round balls of white fluff. 

Transcription: 

[stamp] Katmai National Monument

Katmai 1724-8

MASTER FILE

DATE 7/10/73 

FIELD # 1724-8

SUBJECT cottongrass, Eriphorum sp. 

LOCATION [blank]

CREDIT: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PHOTOGRAPH BY Philip Vaughan

ALASKA TASK FORCE MASTER FILE 

1777-73

#archivesgov #July 10 #1973 #1970s #photography #National Park Service #Katmai #Katmai National Park #cottongrass #plants #soft

[roundaboutfolkpunker]

my epic bear cam finds so far

#bear cam #bear #grizzly bear #black bear #alaska #katmai national park #katmai #wildlife #trail cam footage #trail camera

[forecast0ctopus]

ITS FAT BEAR WEEK AGAIN!! im rooting on 747 all the way

#katmai #katmai national park #fat bear week #fat bear week 2022 #im gonna be making bear claws also..bear claws for fat bear week #also for starting my twin peaks rewatch.. log lady likes bear claws….

[fridaybear]

FAT BEAR WEEK BEGINS TOMORROW!!!

#bear #friday #fridaybear #fat bear week #fat bear #Brooks River #katmai national park #katmai #katmai bears #alaska #grizzly bears #grizzly

[bearotonin-international]

Fat Bear Week starts today!! Are you excited?

HECK

YEAH

WE

ARE

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

make sure to go vote friends

#Fat Bear Week #she is upon us #fat bears #katmai national park #katmai #chonkers #chonkity chonks #the week of chonkalonkin #the chonkability of the beasts is immense #chonkers be chonkin #ask

[quakgrass]

[Image Description: A poster of Bear 128 "Grazer" from Katmai National Park. She is a grizzly bear shown in a circle in the centre of the poster that contains a blue river background. The circle is surrounded by pink and words in all-caps: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, Grazer. End ID.]

I know it's really early to be posting about Fat Bear Week, but I'm feeling festive!

This is her year, I can feel it.

#Fat Bear Week #Grazer #128 Grazer #Katmai #Katmai National Park #Accessible Art #Image Description #Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Brown Bears by Roy Wood

#brown bear #grizzly #Katmai #Alaska #flickr

[solarpunkcitizen]

The best week.

#katmai #fat bear week #conservancy