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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York a USGS biologist, prepares a radio collar while Katrina Knott, research assistant, painting an ID number on the back of a polar bear. The ID number is to make it easy to see from the air that the bear was captured already. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Daniel J. Cox, wildlife photographer, on assignment with Polar Bears International, surveying the range of denning polar bears in the Arctic National WIldlife Refuge. Alaska
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  • Denver Holt glasses the grasslands of the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge looking for short-eared owls. Montana
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  • Greg Durner, USGS Alaska Science Center, surveying the range of denning polar bears in the Arctic National WIldlife Refuge. Alaska
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  • Owl Research Institute crew banding short-eared owls chicks. Ninepipe NWR. Charlo, Montana
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  • Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS bioogist, analyzing data from recent polar bear captures at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife house in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) makes tracks in the snow. These tracks are important for being able to find the bears on the ice for darting and capture for scientific research.
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  • Katrina Knott , field research assistant, works on preparing blood samples taken from polar bears by USGS biologists. She's working from her field lab at a US Fish & Wildlife Service station in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Katrina Knott , field research assistant, works on preparing blood samples taken from polar bears by USGS biologists. She's working from her field lab at a US Fish & Wildlife Service station in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Matt Seidensticker, a biologist from the Owl Research Institute out of Charlo, Montana, studying and recording information on a fledging Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula).
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  • Doc Gohmert and Arnold Turner spend time at the Fish and Wildlife house in Kaktovik waiting for the weather to clear so they can continue capturing polar bears with Dr. Steve Amstrup of the USGS. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute discusses his nearly 30-year long-eared owl research project with a group from the local Audubon chapter in Missoula, Montana.
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute discusses his nearly 30-year long-eared owl research project with a group from the local Audubon chapter in Missoula, Montana.
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute discusses his nearly 30-year long-eared owl research project with a group from the local Audubon chapter in Missoula, Montana.
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  • Denver Holt and Liberty of the Owl Research Institute banding a  great gray owl. Mission Valley, Montana
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  • Northern Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium californicum) being prepped for banding. Montana
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  • Owl Research Institute banding great gray owl family. Mission Valley, Montana
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  • Toni McNamara and Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute with a long-eared owl captured for data collection and soon to be released. Missoula, Montana
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  • Dr. Steve Hiro of the Owl Research Institute gently holds a long-eared owl captured for study and soon to be released. Missoula, Montana
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  • Owl Research Institute banding a great gray owl family. Mission Valley, Montana
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  • Denver Holt and Liberty of the Owl Research Institute banding a great gray owl. Mission Valley, Montana
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist, and Katrina Knott, research assistant, collect data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS biologist, and assistant Karyn Rode preparing to collect data from a small female polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Beaufort Sea ice pack, Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS bioogist, analizing data from recent polar bear captures at the US Fish & Wildlife house in Kaktovik, Ak.
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  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) makes tracks in the snow. These tracks are important for being able to find the bears on the ice for darting and capturing for scientific research.
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  • USGS polar bear team preparing for a day of polar bear research. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Denver Holt, biologist for the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, setting up  using a peeper camera to observe the Northern Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium californicum).
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  • Denver Holt releases a snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) female with a satellite transmitter.
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  • Denver Holt and Linda Schueck putting a satellite transmitter on a Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus).
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute uses a remote camera to check inside the nest cavity of a northern pygmy owl. Polson, Montana
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  • Katrina Knott, research assistant,  prepare a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, prepare a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research.  This female bear will receive a radio collar for future tracking.  Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, prepare a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant,  prepare a polar bear to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Denver Holt, biologist for the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, studying the northern pygmy owl (Glaucidium californicum) in Montana.
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  • Denver Holt and the Owl Research Institute field crew make their way into the field for long eared owl trapping near Missoula, Montana.
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  • Supplies used to perform field research on polar bears by the USGS in at their research station in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, prepare a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Denver Holt checks the inside of a northern pygmy owl nest cavity with a peeper cam. Montana
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute prepares to release a long-eared owl (Asio otus), Missoula, Montana
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  • Steve Amstrup , lead USGS biologist, paints a number on the back of an immobilized large male polar bear (Ursus maritimus) that was darted for research purposes. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup , lead USGS biologist, paints a number on the back of an immobilized large male polar bear (Ursus maritimus) that was darted for research purposes. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort sea ice in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort sea ice in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant,  taking data from a sedated polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in the foreground while another bear sedated earlier slowly get to its feet in the background. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Katrina Knott, a research assistant for the USGS takes weight measurements  of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, biologist for USGS, prepares a polar bear to start doing research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist, and Katrina Knott, research assistant, prepare a polar bear to start doing their research.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist,  prepares a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist, organizing field gear in the garage of the USGS field research station, with polar bear radio collars sitting on the counter in the foreground. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Karen Noyce returns a black bear (Ursus americanus) cub to the den after taking data for research. Minnesota
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist, and Katrina Knott, research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear on the Beaufort Sea ice. They use a block and tackle to take weight measurments. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS, leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection on the Beaufort sea ice.
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  • Geoff York a USGS biologist and Karyn Rode, a research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Karyn Rode, a research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Karyn Rhode, a research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • A helicopter with biologists from the USGS approach a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) they recently shot with an immobilization drug. He'll soon be down so they can perform their field research and data collection. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort sea ice in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort sea ice in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Steve Amstrup. lead biologist for the USGS leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort sea ice in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist organizing field gear in the garage of the field research station in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist organizing field gear in the garage of the field research station in Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • A female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) newly painted with an identifying number on her back, stands in a groggy, disoriented state having just emerged from an immobilizing drug used by USGS biologists to perform field research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, taking measurements of a sedated polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, taking measurements of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) they've darted on the Beaufort Sea pack ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, a research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Tools of the polar bear research trade lie waiting for use on the fur of a polar bear.  Shown here is a calliper, blood viles, measuring tape and syringe needle cover. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, a research assistant, collecting data from a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the Beaufort Sea ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Katrina Knott, research assistant for USGS, swabs the inside area between a female polar bears toes. It's thought that female polar bears possibly give off a scent through their feet during estrus. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Two polar bears are down, having been darted from the air. Geoff York and Katrina Knott prepare the animals to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant,  taking data from a sedated polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in the foreground while another bear sedated earlier slowly get to its feet in the background. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist and Katrina Knott, research assistant, taking measurements of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) they've darted on the Beaufort Sea pack ice. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York, a USGS biologist,  prepares a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing their research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Geoff York a USGS biologist prepares a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) to start doing his research. Kaktovik, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS biologist, and Doc Gohmert, chopper pilot, prepare to land near an immobilized polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Beaufort Sea ice pack, Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • A helicopter with biologists from the USGS approach a polar bear they recently shot with an immobilization drug. He'll soon be down so they can perform their field research and data collection.
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  • Geoff York, USGS biologist, prepares a radio collar while Katrina Knott, research assistant, paints an ID number on the back of a polar bear. The ID number is to make it easy to see from the air that the bear was captured already.
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  • Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS biologist, takes the skull measurement of a large male polar bear on the ice pack of the Beaufort Sea. A group of biologists lead by Dr. Amstrup, head to the Beaufort Sea pack ice each year to collect data on this region's polar bear population. I spent two weeks helping them with their research and documenting their project. This is part of the Tri-P, Polar Population Project, sponsored in part by Polar Bears International to census Arctic regions for an accurate count of the world's remaining polar bears
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  • Merav Ben-David from the University of Wyoming  and project leader of the Polar Sea Icebreaker polar bear research cruise, passes by her two colleagues John Whiteman and Hank Harlow as they collect breath from a polar bear for a breath analysis experiment. Arctic Ocean
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  • Matt Seidensticker, a biologist from the Owl Research Institute out of Charlo, Montana. studying and recording information on fledging Northern Hawk Owl.
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  • Steve Amstrup, lead USGS biologist, paints a number on the back of an immobilized large male polar bear that was darted for research purposes. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Steve Amstrup, lead biologist for the USGS, leans out of a research helicopter to take aim at a running polar bear to be darted for data collection. Beaufort Sea ice, Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Denver Holt releasing a female snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) with a satellite transmitter. Barrow, Alaska
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  • Denver Holt holding a female snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Barrow, Alaska
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  • Denver Holt, biologist for the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, looking for the northern pygmy owl (Glaucidium gnoma) in a forest of northern Montana.
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  • Denver Holt of the Owl Research Institute makinga call about abandoned Snowy Owl chicks. Alaska
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  • Research capture helicopter, USGS polar bear study, Beraufort Sea ice.
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  • Denver Holt examines an injured Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus). Barrow, Alaska
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  • A researcher taking data on a Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) in Montana.
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  • Denver Holt riding a four wheeler and getting ready to drag grassland for short-eared owls nests. Ninepipe NWR.,Charlo, Montana
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  • A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) makes tracks in the snow. These tracks are important for being able to find the bears on the ice for darting and capturing. Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • A female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) dazed and weak from an immobilizing drug she received from Dr. Steve Amstrup, USGS biologist. Beaufrot Sea ice pack, Kaktovik, Alaska
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  • Steve Amstrup and Geoff York, USGS biologists, taking blood from an immobilized large male polar bear.
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  • Denver Holt checking a snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) nest on the north slope in Alaska.
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  • Denver Holt in the field checking for Snowy Owl nest sites. Barrow, Alaska
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  • Northern pygmy owl (Glaucidium californicum) female showing brood patch. Montana
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  • Denver Holt gets ready to band an adult northern pygmy owl. Montana
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  • Dr. Steven Amstrup and assistant Karyn Rode prepare a large male polar bear for scientific data collection they perform out on the ice of the Bering Sea. This large specimen was captured after being immobilized with a dart from a helicopter. This adult male wasn't even over 1,000 pounds, unlike many Dr. Amstrup captured in the 1980s that would tip the scales considerably over that 1,000-pound mark. Alaska
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  • Dr. Steven C. Amstrup checks the paw of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) #20571, a large male that had been tagged years earlier. Kaktovik, Alaska
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