The Bear Truth: Grizzlies' Snagged Hair Samples Reveal Dependence on Salmon
Editor's note: This story is part of a four-part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American , reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia. For a first-person acocunt of her experience there, click here . HEILTSUK TRADITIONAL TERRITORY, British Columbia--"Remember, if she charges, don't run ," Doug Brown, researcher and field station manager for Raincoast Conservation Foundation and member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, who tells me as we climb out of the boat at the head of one of the countless inlets found in the of the Heiltsuk Traditional Territory along British Columbia's central coast. It's June and the early morning summer sun rapidly scales over the steep slopes flanking the inlet. Several hundred meters away...