Remote Camera Photographs

Greater Glacier Ara Bear DNA Project (1998 - 2000)

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Grizzly bear investigating scent lure at bear hair snag in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 6 June 1998, 8:29am.  Griz at trap5.jpg (26078 bytes)
Grizzly bear shaking off the rain while inside a barbed wire bear hair snag (note hair on wire) in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:53am.  shaking bear-s.jpg (61794 bytes)
Grizzly bear rubbing the scent lure station inside a bear hair snag in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:54am.  rubbing bear-s.jpg (85089 bytes)
Grizzly bear rolling on back in scent lure at bear hair snag in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:58am.  rolling bear-s.JPG (68331 bytes)
Grizzly bear steps over the barbed wire at a bear hair snag in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 11:00am.  profile bear-s.JPG (62715 bytes)
The following 3 pictures are of the same bear taken over the course of 45 minutes (in total 8 pictures were taken of this bear).  The first picture was taken less than 40 minutes after the crew departed.   
Grizzly bear arriving at hair snag located at the head of Fern Creek drainage in the Apgar Mountain Range, Glacier National Park, MT.  USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project.  Remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn. September 23, 2000, 5:10pm.  first bear in series from Fern Creek hair trap
Grizzly bear investigating hair snag in the Apgar Mountain Range, Glacier National Park, MT.  USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project.  Remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn.  September 23, 2000, 5:41pm.  second picture from Fern Creek
Same grizzly bear preparing to visit the remote camera itself.  Apgar Mountain Range, Glacier National Park, MT.  USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project.  Remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn.  September 23, 2000, 5:55pm.  third picture

 


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