One of the lodge's most fun tools is Julius's 1957 Piper Supercub, a fabric bush plane that is still the mainstay of much small aviation in Alaska and northern Canada. Throughout the season Julius - and sometimes one of the guides - flies around the...
Your holiday at Wild Bear Lodge will be about all kind of things - connecting with nature, enjoying some of North America's prime megafauna, rafting down a beautiful, wilderness river, eating fine food. But it is also about making memories and having fun, in your...
We have three resident German shepherd dogs at Wild Bear Lodge, Masha and Karu, two siblings whom we brought to the ranch only weeks after we first arrived, and Katya, a long-haired Shepherd, who arrived in the spring of 2017 from Cranbrook in the Rockies....
In this podcast Julius is interviewed by Nicholas Scapillati of the Grizzly Bear Foundation. He talks about the beginnings of Wild Bear Lodge (then Grizzly Bear Ranch), its bears, its vision, the interior temperate rainforest, -which is the only one of its kinds in the...
Ben Fogle films his first episode of New Lives in the Wild at Wild Bear Lodge in which he tells the story of how Julius and Kristin, true urbanites, came to BC and set up a bear-viewing business in the middle of nowhere....
We set out with Mel Clapham, a bear biologist who lives on BC’s coast, to monitor local bear behaviour. The project was to evolve into a scientific breakthrough that uses facial recognition to count and track grizzly bears....
Spotting grizzly bears in Canada Step one: fly to Canada. Step two: check into Wild Bear Lodge (Grizzly Bear Ranch). Step three: look out the window. Easy. By Mark Franchetti Deep in the remote wilderness of British Columbia, I was in the back of a 4WD as it...
A couple of years after arriving at the ranch, Julius was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 about his time as a foreign correspondent, the wars he had covered and his and Kristin's decision to move to British Columbia. He also talked about the valley they now...