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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Seventy Six: Spring comes to Yellowstone – a travel photo-essay > Newborn bear cub, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2010
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25-MAY-2010

Newborn bear cub, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2010

Bears are quite secretive during the day -- most of them rest and forage deep in the forest. Yet we saw this mother Black Bear and her newborn cub grazing in a field of dead trees, at a considerable distance from the road. Using a 400mm lens, and cropping my image in half, I was able to picture them here grazing on a thin green band of grass, surrounded at front and back by a fallen forest probably produced by a violent windstorm.

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Phil Douglis22-Jun-2010 20:54
We were indeed fortunate, Iris, to be in Yellowstone at the moment when new life in all forms was abundant. We were lucky to be able to spot these bears in the open -- they are so reclusive.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)22-Jun-2010 00:30
Baby bison, baby black bears....so very cute. We were lucky to be there at this productive time.
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