GRIZZLY BEARS

On April 16, 2022, Tom Mengelsen and the film crew rush to shoot photos of Grizzly 399 and her cubs as they emerge from hibernation. The director, Elizabeth Leiteris moved by the experience.

As their territory expands into cattle country, local ranchers reassert that grizzlies should be delisted under the Endangered Species Act, which would pave the way for legal hunting of the bears.

The most famous bear in the Tetons attempts to raise four cubs. But she makes increasingly unexpected and consequential choices to protect her family, Grizzly 399 stands as a symbol of the clash between humans and the wild.

The caribou migration is a veritable feast for grizzly bears — if the bears can catch them. Grizzlies hunt all the way to the Arctic Ocean in the summer, but caribou are faster than bears on the open plain.

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a conservation scientist, large carnivore ecologist, nature storyteller, and advocate. Her expertise is in using statistical modeling to investigate how anthropogenic factors can influence the spatial patterns of carnivore behavior and ecology. One such carnivore - the grizzly bear. She joined ...

This grizzly bear has defied the odds, leaving behind a genetic legacy that may shape this grizzly bear population for decades to come.