Bear Necessities
This is
Jellystone
The largest species of salmon is
King or Chinook
The two moieties of the Tlingit culture
Eagle and Raven
This island only has black bears
Kuprenoff Island
The ABC islands are
Admiralty, Barnoff, Chiagoth
This is the name of the website that will identify whales for you
Happy Whale
The name of a salmon nest
Redd
Thank you in Tlingit
cheesh
Gunalcheesh
The southernmost tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere
LeConte
Fat Bear Week, a super fun march madness style contest to determine who is the fattest bear of them all, happens at this national park
Katmai National Park
This population of whales has recently declined by 50%
Grey Whales
The second stage of the salmon life cycle
Alevin
The canoe Fallen's brother was craving was made from what tree.
Red Cedar
The ABC islands
The amount of fish a coastal brown bear can consume in a day.
30+
The approximate amount of time a humpback whale calf will stay with their mother
1 year
This is how much faster a tree can grow near a salmon river compared to a tree not growing near a salmon river
3-5 times faster
The name of one of the ice fields that fed the glacier we saw
Juneau or Stikine
This is the common term for a dead and fallen tree that supports small saplings and plants
Nurse Log
Bears are not true hibernators, instead the process is called
Torpor
The process in which a whale shuts off half of it brain while the other half rests.
Uni-hemispherical Slow Wave Sleep
The name of the ear bone of a salmon, which is the main way hatcheries identify their fish
Otolith
The town where the largest totem pole in Alaska was craved.
Haines
This prolific crustose lichen (shown here) can be seen on the surfaces of stumps and rocks?
Fairy's Barf Lichen