As bears, we rely on streams for clean water, fresh fish, and berries. For the past few decades, our streams have become polluted or diverted to human water sources.
A new study published in Conservation Letters, the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, says while small streams are home to only about 20 per cent of the salmon in the Wood River basin watershed in southwest Alaska, they account for half of the salmon brown bears eat.
We're asking humans to join us bears in saving our streams. We want streams to be there for everyone.