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Video: Brooks Falls brown bears fish for salmon

The Brooks Falls Wildlife Viewing Platform at Brooks Camp offers visitors to Katmai National Park and Preserve a rare glimpse of brown bears close up in the wild. Sockeye salmon pass through the site on their return from the ocean to spawning grounds in Lake Brooks.

The falls are famous for the brown bears that gather there during salmon runs in July and September to feed on the plentiful fish. The area is also known for an archaeological site containing some of the oldest human remains in North America, dating to approximately 9,000 years ago.

You can watch the Katmai bears at the falls on the Brooks Falls bear cam at Explore.org.

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