If you’ve lived in Haines for some time, you’ve probably heard of glacier bears — the rare black bear with gray or blue fur that has long been Haines School’s mascot.

But you probably don’t know much about them — because few, if any, people do.

Tania Lewis, a wildlife biologist at Glacier Bay National Park who gave a presentation last month as part of an online U.S. Forest Service lecture series, is trying to change…