“You all call her Speedy, I call her 235,” Anthony Crupi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist, said to a room full of patrons about the famously tagged brown bear, often seen on the Chilkoot River with her three cubs. Speedy, who was fitted with a radio collar from 2008 to 2015, was part of a study that will be repeated on a larger scale over the next five years.

Crupi’s new five-year research…