Sitting in a small plane weaving between B.C.’s Purcell Mountains, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Maruniak said he felt joy for the first time in two years. “This is the place where you don’t feel danger, and you don’t expect danger,” he said through a translator. Mr. Maruniak...
In 2019 Ben Fogle returned to Wild Bear Lodge to film a second episode for New Lives in the Wild. He found that Julius and Kristin had succeeded in one of their key aims – to ban grizzly bear hunting in BC....
By Mike Carter I really wanted to be here. But now that I was, I would rather have been anywhere else. I was deep inside ancient woodland. It was almost dark. In the gloaming, the gnarled trunks of vast red cedars, some more than 1,000 years...
On a recent crisp sunny morning, a small group of wildlife guides and British and Canadian military veterans, reached a ridge in the mountains of British Columbia and found themselves within 15 metres of a grizzly bear. Click here for more +++...
We live in one of the most beautiful corners of Canada, situated in the world's only inland temperate rainforest. Surrounded by mountains, glaciers and verdant forests, some of them ancient, we also have some of the world's most exciting wildlife. Among the animals we commonly see...
During the spring - May and June - we head out into the valleys and up into the sub-alpine to view bears that have recently emerged from denning. We also see many other wild animals feeding on the rich grasses that come at this time...
We put together a short video using some drone footage we took in the autumn. We don’t fly drones low over wild animals, but they do capture some of the feel of the valley. (We don’t often hike in the snow but do with those...
The autumn is our prime grizzly-viewing season. At this time of year grizzlies begin to come down from the high country to feed on the salmon in our river. We also frequently see other animals in the valley especially bald eagles and, occasionally, a wolf...
We have five guest cabins at Wild Bear Lodge. Whitewater is our largest cabin with two floors. It has commanding views of the river and two sun decks. It also has a bathtub as well as a wood-burning stove. Redfish North and South are slightly...
We chop and stack our own firewood which is always on hand to make sure that your cabins are cozy and warm. It also keeps the fire in the main house burning in the cold seasons. Sourcing, bucking up, splitting and stacking firewood is a...