Birds and Bears

Like so many places in the North, the salmon are the lifeblood of the ecosystem. Feeding grizzlies, eagles, wolves, magpies, coyotes, ravens, and wolverines.

Cowboy Sheep

I am amazed that sheep can grow so large, by feeding on small grasses and shrubs all winter.

Kluane Salmon

A Chum salmon on its' spawning bed with the St. Elias Mountains in the background.

Power

A Grizzly bear pounces on salmon in their spawning grounds off the Kluane River. The grizzlies are feeding on salmon in early winter, fattening up for a long hibernation.

Frosty Freeze Dinner

This particular grizzly, would catch salmon and leave them on shore to freeze, returning hours later to feast on his frozen meals. Grizzlies, will often only eat the skin of the salmon, leaving the remains for eagles, ravens and wolves to scavenge.

Lifeblood of the Ecosystem

Salmon create ecological hotspots, providing critical nutrients and fat to the forest and its' wildlife. The spawned out salmon that freeze in the river, will be dug up by wolves and wolverines feeding them all winter.