Ground-breaking brown bear research holds great promise

By: Bill Sherwonit

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: April 21, 2026

Words: 1,413

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Time and again, colleagues told bear biologist Beth Rosenberg that her quest to develop a new and less invasive way of identifying and studying Alaska’s brown bears was a futile one. There were simply too many obstacles, too many unknowns, to overcome.

“It just won’t work,” she heard repeatedly.

Inspired by her hero, the acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall, Rosenberg stubbornly pushed ahead, just as Goodall had done decades earlier in the face of great …

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