19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Rush

I watched this brown bear make several fishing attempts for hours in a river in the Katmai Preserve. There is truly nothing comparable to seeing the power of a bear plunging into a river after a school of salmon, and no better place to witness this than in southwest Alaska during the peak of the run.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2020
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: King Salmon (nearest city), Alaska, United States of America
Copyright: © Rylee Jensen