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This female bear had previously left the area while the two male bears were fighting

and habitat loss

Larch valley is one of the most picturesque locations during fall in the Canadian Rockies

such as by Kodak back in the 1960s

Reawakening Coffee-Table-Books This female bear had previouslyKootenay National Park, Alberta A forest fire had gone through this part of Kootenay National Park some years previously. Fireweed is one of the first plants to repopulate a burned area, literally appearing six to eight weeks after a fire. It is a colonizer, and it will appear where there is exposed ground in transition. For this image, I used a camera on a tripod with a longer exposure and panned vertically. This creates the abstract effect, which I