A brown bear relaxing as she feeds on grasses near the Silver Salmon Lodge in Alaska.

A cub hops a ride with mom on her back, evoking a “Kilroy was here” moment on the beach in Alaska.

Cubs will play with just about anything!

Bears are about as Alaskan as you can get. Here’s a sow sedging as she raises two cubs.

American Bison roam #YellowstoneNP now much as they did thousands of years ago.

When bears aren’t sedging in Alaska, they are hunting for clams.

A cub’s first time on the flats looks to mom as she clams in the sand.

A hopeful cub on a tidal flat in Alaska hoping for a quick meal from mom!

Staring down a deer in Texas

Guanaco in the mountainous regions of Patagonia.

The Chilean guanaco near Torres del Paine in southern Chile.

Everybody needs to scratch that itch one time or another …

A light rain falls on a bear staring intently back at me.