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 ... But as a reminder of the ice age, he caused every 10th black bear to be white. The formal name is Kermode bear.

The national park forms one unit ... Mule deer and black-tailed deer graze the high meadows, where black bears gorge on berries and hoary marmots sunbathe. Mountain goats clamber on rock faces.

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.

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... River near Grand Teton includes a cougar, a black bear, and a mule deer. “When we talk about ...

The bear pokes her snout out of the hole, yawning, before slowly lumbering out into the world. Over in Yosemite National Park, black bears have ventured out of their winter abodes and wandered ...