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Aleknagik Bear Project enters its 7th year

7/26/2018

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By: Aaron Wirsing
Since 2012, we have been sampling brown bear hair with barbed wires strung across sockeye salmon spawning streams feeding into Lake Aleknagik (Bristol Bay, AK) for the purpose of generating noninvasive genetic population estimates. So far this year, the bear activity has been a tad slow (not much hair snagged on the wires), but this wire deployed on the aptly named Bear Creek was recently visited by an immature bald eagle (see below)!

As usual, sampling will run through the end of August, after which we'll send our hair specimens to the lab at the University of Idaho for analysis, hoping for lots of individual IDs (genotypes).
Trail camera photo of bird of prey at stream in natural area
Every so often, when our barbed wires and motion-activated cameras work in perfect harmony, we get a moment like this one (on upper Hansen Creek).
Trail camera photo of two bears at stream in natural area
Trail camera photo of bear at stream in natural area
Trail camera photo of two bears at stream in natural area
     ​Also, our daily Hansen walks are catching on...
Trail camera photo of bird of prey at stream in natural area
Trail camera photo of bear with two bear cubs at stream in natural area
Cubs! (Upper Eagle Creek)
Trail camera photo of bear at stream in natural area
Bear meets wire (on Eagle Creek).
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10/23/2019 03:57:11 am

It is already the seventh year of this project, time really just flies, huh? I feel like it's only been a couple of weeks since we started this project. I never really thought that we would get this much support from the community, but I am really happy that we did. I hope that this is not for nothing. I want to give the people a project that I can be proud of. I know that we can all enjoy this project.

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