(Photo by Melody Ayres-Griffiths/Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Last year was not a good year for berries on Kodiak Island, to put it mildly. Low berry production was a bummer for human berry pickers. But the bad berry year also affected wildlife, including the island’s iconic brown bears that rely on the fruit to put on fat to survive the winter. …
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Lisa Hupp/USFWS Mitch Borden/KMXT Deer Hunters on Kodiak Island need to be careful of bears this season. That’s because this year there’s a shortage of berries Kodiak brown bears depend on for food. This includes salmon berries and elderberries. Bill Pyle, supervisory wildlife biologist for the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, says this lack of food will affect how bears act. …
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