This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For millennia the Kitasoo native people on Canada’s Pacific coast have known this bear and its legend. As the ...

As a scientist with National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places Initiative, she works to protect and restore iconic wildlife populations, including North American black and grizzly bears.