During the summer, the bears are super hungry because they haven’t eaten during hibernation through the winter and spring. They must eat an entire year’s worth of food in six months or less!
Bears gather at Brooks River because it’s the first place salmon become available to bears in Katmai.
The waterfall on Brooks River makes a barrier the salmon have to jump over in order to continue swimming upriver to spawn. Brooks Falls is a kind of bottleneck where bears count on finding fish in the first half of the summer.
