Bears are waking up!

It’s always so exciting to see the first grizzly bear each year...5 months is a long time to go without bears. This male looks huge after hibernating, so I can only imagine what he looked like going into the den. In hibernation bears rely entirely on fat reserves, and in 5 or 6 months of laying around, they lose virtually no muscle mass. The male bears, as pictured here, are first to show in the spring. We will start seeing females and cubs in the next month or two!