Polar Bear Blog – After Bear Season
Things settle into a bit of hibernation mode up here once the bears and tourists leave. There is enough sea ice on the bay now to make for crystal clear days and pastel sunrises and, of course, the...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Moose Bits and Wolverines
Lots of folks are out moose hunting now, either north of Churchill around North River delta, south near Twin Lakes or up the hydro line. Hunting season, of course, means gut pile season too and that’s...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – The Mysterious World of Churchill’s Polar Bears
Well, the Polar Bears of Churchill sure are getting hard to figure out. I was writing a recap of this ‘bear season’ when the new articles about Churchill’s bears hit ‘The Guardian’. In a series of...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Bear Stories
The largest bear captured in this area weighed 1,600 lbs, almost twice the size of a ‘normal’ adult male. Steve ‘The Eagle’ Miller, a long-time helicopter pilot in the Churchill area, used to talk...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – The Polar Bear Attack
This post is actually about the polar bear incident out at Cape Churchill… back in 1983 – an attack that accidentally launched the polar bear industry… The Treul Story ”Here, take my camera, I have to...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Polar Bear Diets and Sharing Seals
Its a pretty quiet time for the blog and for the bears. Polar bears are not overly keen on polar vortexes either, they mostly sit and wait out blizzards, sit and wait for spring. One researcher, Nikita...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Forget Polar Bears; Grain and Oil Don’t Mix
An interesting take on Canada’s rail crisis came out this week… no, I am not talking about the excess of derailments and explosions – enough folks have covered that – this is more about the unforeseen...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Mid-Winter Bears
There is a blizzard in Churchill today, windchill in the mid-fifties. Then again, its been cold a blizzardy through most of North America for much of this winter, Churchill hasn’t had it much worse...
View Article
