The remote site, located on the mainland about 30 miles southeast of Wrangell, is staffed by seasonal workers with the U.S. Forest Service who rotate shifts living at a nearby floathouse anchored in Anan Bay.
contest, where the public votes on Southwestern Alaska’s fattest bears, is an international sensation. A smaller bear-viewing site in Southeast Alaska has kicked off its own bear awards this year, but the focus isn’t just on the rotundity of the area’s resident bruins.
“One of their duties is to try and identify the bears, because that helps us get an idea of the trends of the population, how many bears that we’re seeing at a time, are they the same bears, that kind of thing,” Galla explains. At the end of the season, Galla said staffers made the informal whiteboard awards into a full presentation, which they sent to Paul Robbins, the public affairs officer for the Tongass National Forest.
“We’ve had ‘Cutest Bear,’ We’ve had the ‘Best fisherman,’ or fisher-bear, I should say, Scuba Sue was the ‘Best Fisher-bear,’” Robbins said. “And then we had the ‘Most Chill Bear,’ who was doing an impersonation of Baloo from ‘The Jungle Book’ just leaned up against a tree, scratching along to the music. Entertaining stuff.”
He said as a social media campaign for the Tongass National Forest, the Anan Bear Awards are a hit so far. “Not many people actually get to go to Anan and see that amazing place,” Robbins said. “So there’s a great way to share with folks who can’t make it.”Fat Bear Week
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