trapping

Once captured, the bears are anesthetized to allow wildlife biologists to radio-collar and collect scientific samples for study.

I was spending the final hours of 2014 in the best way I could imagine – surrounded by friends, cozied up in a Forest Service cabin filled with the warmth of a fire and the smells of our collective contributions to a “family dinner.” After dinner, while we waited to ring in the New Year, we decided to head out for a cross country ski under the light of a star-speckled sky...