A looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week.
vote in tournament-style brackets for those they want to advance to the next round until a champion is crowned in the weeklong contest.and release those votes — and a shutdown won’t allow them to do so because it would trigger a ban on using the park’s official social media accounts for as long as the government is closed.
Alaska’s most-watched popularity contest, Fat Bear Week involves residents picking their favorite fat brown bear who’s been stocking up for winter by noshing on salmon in Katmai National Park & Preserve.The National Park Service estimates that 2,200 brown bears inhabit the park, a number exceeding the people who live on the peninsula.
The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.
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