After work Jordan asked Kristen, Jonathan, and I to help him try and move the bear cubs into a holding area. We are about to switch the black bears and kodiac cubs. The cubs will be going in where the black bears are, and the black bears will be going back into their old enclosure which is where the cubs currently are now.
We were not very sucessfull with moving the cubs.....
Later, a few people where going fishing on the property across the street so I tagged along. I wasn't fishing, but I was definitely enjoying the view.
Tuesday and wednesday were my days off. We had a trip planned to go and stay in a cabin.
We had a cabin rented for a night at the Eagle River Nature Center. It was about a mile and a half hike to the cabin in the park. There was a meadow called Bear Meadow just across the cabin. We had pan grilled zucchini, chicken tortillas, and smores galore for dinner.
Wednesday we headed back to the center. We had a porcupine presentation in Cooper Landing at 8 pm so I was getting ready for that around 5ish. The presentation went great, and afterwards we wanted to stop at the Russian River to look for any bears. The salmon are starting to run through the river so people are fishing around this time down there. When we arrived we heard there was a black bear and her 3 cubs in the area. Sure enough, we spotted a black bear not 5 minutes later. It was awesome! I was able to see 4 black bears in one night! The 3 cubs where hidden really well up in a tree.
When people catch fish in this area they are asked to dispose of the left over fish and not leave the left overs in the stream.. However, people do not always do this and it attracts bear. This black bear was getting easy meals by simply plucking the left overs that people just carelessly tossed back into the
stream.
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