By the time you read these words, I will be paddling a canoe in southwest Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Departing from Brooks Lodge along the shore of Naknek Lake, my trip with six other men will involve over 100 miles of paddling and fishing from the North Arm of Naknek Lake’s Bay of Islands, across a portage to lakes Grosvenor and Coville, to American Creek and down the raging Savonoski River to the Iliuk Arm of Naknek Lake and back to Brooks Lodge. And when our trip concludes, some ten days from start to finish, we will have encountered dozens of brown bears.

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