Colorado's Peter Ridgeway worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska for ... 24 real-life brown bears that call Katmai National Park home. Many of them have competed in Fat Bear Week, an annual ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve ... famous worldwide for Alaska Brown Bear viewing, and watch brown bears fish for spawning salmon from the park's elevated platforms and boardwalks.

Opponents of a controversial predator control program in Western Alaska ... could harm bear populations, including the internationally famous population that roams Katmai National Park and Preserve.

"Brown bears live throughout Alaska and are the only bear species found in Sitka," the National Parks Service (NPS) states on their website. "Brown bears use the full range of habitat in the area ...