| Alaska photographer and storyteller, Buck Wilde premiers rare imagery of wolves and bears coexisting as streamside anglers, taking audiences into a virtual wilderness to experience a 'Crescendo in the Grizzly Maze'.
Wild salmon are returning home from their two-year odyssey at sea, and predators are waiting for the action to begin at low tide in the estuaries. The salmon have but one last gauntlet to run, between the legs of the bears and wolves. Not all of the salmon will make it to their spawning grounds. Bears need high-grade sushi to survive hibernation, and lots of it, eating up to twenty salmon on the most productive days. Wolves can also be amazingly proficient in the shallows and bottlenecks. This past summer, a pair of white wolves befriended the photographer and for the first time in twenty years he was able to capture images of handsome white wolves catching salmon, working as a team to steal the bears' hard earned catches, and sitting face-to-face with a half-ton male grizzly bear at his kill site, encircled by a gathering of clamorous ravens! The photographer not only tells true stories of the lifecycles of salmon, grizzly bear's and wolves, but one of gaining the trust of a wild animal. Buck Wilde is a Penn State alum and has been leading world-acclaimed filmmakers and photographers into Alaska's most extreme wildernesses to document wild animals' behaviors often documented for the first time. |
White wolf catches salmon in estuary and holds delicately by pectoral fin.
Grizzly mother and yearling walk by Buck Wilde and friends in Grizzly Maze. |
