Katmai-Bear-Fan

he/they || Brown Bear Enjoyer || not affiliated in any way with Explore, KNP&P or the Katmai Conservancy || photos from explore.org's live cams unless stated otherwise

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Its Bear Cam Season, Baybee!!

I liveblog about the Katmai National Park Brown Bear live cams on explore.org when they are active -- from roughly mid June to mid October -- because I love these bears so much I needed somewhere I could yell about them!

I'm just a fan -- I am not affiliated with KNP&P, Explore.org, or The Katmai Conservancy. All photos are from the explore.org brown bear cams unless otherwise stated.

If you're new to the bear cams, start here!

About this blog:

Blog FAQ, My Blog's Tag System, Bear Terminology I Use, Trigger Warnings / Content Policy

My Favorite Fat Bear Before/After Photos

Specific Bear Content:

Bears I've Posted About: Monitored, Transient

Family Trackers: 2024, 2025, 2026

Fat Bear Week Finalists: 2014-2017, 2018-2024

Fat Bear Junior Finalists: 2021-2024

Explore.org Content:

Bear Cams, Youtube Channel

Katmai Conservancy/KNP&P links:

Donate, Shop, Katmai Flickr Page

Unofficial Katmai Highlights Channels on Youtube:

Cruiser, JMcNature, McKate

Unofficial Bearcam Wiki:

Unofficial Bear Book

Misc:

LunaCre's Daily Recap Gifs, 2021-Present

Labeled map of the falls + the cams locations on the river

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one of the subadults, on BF. not sure who right now, though.

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it's 694 -- formerly 94mSmall!!

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checking out riffles, seeing if there's any salmon yet

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he is so cute when he snorkels

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one of the subadults, on BF. not sure who right now, though.

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it's 694 -- formerly 94mSmall!!

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checking out riffles, seeing if there's any salmon yet

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one of the subadults, on BF. not sure who right now, though.

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it's 694 -- formerly 94mSmall!!

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one of the subadults, on BF. not sure who right now, though.

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oh woah a bear already!! not sure who yet, because small & far away, but a bear!! they're on the left side of this photo, in the gravel area. it might be 513? but its difficult to tell.

edit: a few of the expert IDers believe this may actually be 910!

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rbing with the updated ID!

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oh woah a bear already!! not sure who yet, because small & far away, but a bear!! they're on the left side of this photo, in the gravel area. it might be 513? but its difficult to tell.

edit: a few of the expert IDers believe this may actually be 910!

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Goodness, i have missed the view from KRV so much for the last 8 months!!

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riffles!!

the views seem much clearer so far, and maybe like there's different lenses now too. Time to play the annual game of "is it a bear or is it a rock/log" until we get a real sighting, haha

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Goodness, i have missed the view from KRV so much for the last 8 months!!

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did not expect mike fitz to quote "if not friend, why friend shaped" -- love it lmao

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wow, i am loving this section of the talk, where he is talking about anthropomorphism and conservation. the point about it being unavoidable -- because we are humans and we perceive the world through human eyes -- but that we should be critical about it and avoid applying human morality and emotions to fundamentally non-human creatures really resonates with me

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the site has crashed for me, lmao

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did not expect mike fitz to quote "if not friend, why friend shaped" -- love it lmao

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wow, i am loving this section of the talk, where he is talking about anthropomorphism and conservation. the point about it being unavoidable -- because we are humans and we perceive the world through human eyes -- but that we should be critical about it and avoid applying human morality and emotions to fundamentally non-human creatures really resonates with me

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did not expect mike fitz to quote "if not friend, why friend shaped" -- love it lmao

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Brooks Live Chat | Brown Bears | Live Cams | Explore.org

Watch Brooks Live Chat live cam at Brown Bears on Explore.org.

Bear Cam Kickoff Live Chat with Mike Fitz and Katmai Rangers -- the timer on the stream currently says you have about a minute to get in here!

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Countdown to Bearcams 2026!

The Katmai Brown Bear Live Cams will be going live on Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 11am Alaska / 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern!

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a little trailer for the new season, narrated by Mike Fitz, a Resident Naturalist at Explore.org and former Katmai National Park Ranger!

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Today!!!

Bear Cam 2026 Kickoff Live Chat starts at 10am Alaska / 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern -- cams will go live at the end of the event.

The Katmai National Park Brown Bear Live Cams go live at 11am Alaska / 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern

Lets have an awesome bear cam season, folks!!

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1 hour until the live chat, 2 hours until cams!

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The Naknek river looks like a painting this morning 💖

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💛🧡🤍🩶🖤

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The Naknek river looks like a painting this morning 💖

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some things to note about the bear cams going live today:

it is likely that the site will crash from traffic -- it happens basically every year -- so if you can't get in then just wait a couple minutes and try again

identifying which bear is which is most difficult at the start of the season, so it may take some time to get a positive ID

given the huge salmon run and large number of single ladies last year, we may see a lot of spring cubs this year

there may or may not actually be bears around when the cams go live, because the salmon run has not really arrived yet