When the pink salmon are running up Chilkoot, in mid-July through mid-September, Chilkoot mama bears need to fish the river for their survival and that of their cubs. The collared mother bear on the river is Speedy’s only surviving descendant. It took her eight years to have her first set of cubs, now in their second year. Mama is thin and still nursing her young.
Somehow this mother bear with her cubs miraculously threads her…