The Klukwan residents who responded to a call about an injured brown bear on the Haines Highway last month are no strangers to late-night bear calls but it’s a rarity to get such a call in late November. 

For the past several years, mother and son duo Deanna and Dakota Strong have volunteered as Klukwan’s only wildlife protection – the local bear patrol. 

Deanna and Dakota Strong have been working as a bear patrol in Haines.…