Text and photos by Mary L. Peachin
Vol. 10 No. 11
Clawing for spawning pink salmon along a river stream, the black bear sow busily fed her two cubs. Suddenly, lumbering along the opposite side of the creek, a rarely sighted White Spirit kermode approached. Expecting a typically protective sow to charge the male kermode, it was with excited anticipation that we waited for the action to begin. The cubs apparently didn’t have confidence in mom. Like a flash, they scrambled up the trunk of a red alder.