Category: Grizzly bears


This grizzly wandered through the meadow, periodically eating dandelions and digging for tubers. I saw it about an hour later as it strolled through Johnston campground. Thankfully the campground had just opened and so it wasn’t that busy.  However, I was surprised that park staff didn’t go around and alert the campers of the bear walking through the campground so I made a quick loop and let everyone I came across know what was going on. Some just nodded and said thanks, others panic and jumped into their cars .   Luckily the bear just skirted the outside portion of the campground and showed no interest in the occupants or their food.

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While this looks like a fierce battle it was actually a mother grizzly wrestling with her 3-4 year old cub.  Eventually the mother will drive her cub off as she gets ready to give birth to the next litter.

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In between eating dandelions mom and cubs would wrestle with each other.  Here the cubs teamed up to take on mom

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