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Admiralty Island Brown Bear Hunting
Admiralty Island - Kootznoowoo Wilderness
The Tlingit Indians call this island Kootz-na-hoo “Fortress of the Bear”. Virtually uninhabited by people and home to the highest density of brown bears in the world. Admiralty Island encompasses approximately 1,064,900 acres.
In the spring brown bears leave their denning sites and slowly make their way to the beach. On their way they might find and eat skunk cabbage roots or maybe a winter killed deer. Eventually they will feed on the lush green sedge that is soon to grow on the beaches as they wait for the salmon to return to the streams. . By late summer and early fall the bears are feeding actively on salmon and can be located in the salmon streams.
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