Once on the brink of extinction, bald eagles are now making a comeback. Here you can spot grizzly bears, moose, wolves, Dall sheep and other creatures that most people never encounter in their natural habitat. The most arresting is the grizzly bear. The grizzly measures from six to nine feet in height and weighs up to 975 pounds. This forbidding animal can be unpredictable and will attack if frightened or provoked.
Alaskan guides are well-versed in techniques to avoid such a confrontation.
During the brief season of the salmon spawning run, grizzly bears, along with other animals, anxiously line the river banks. Using their claws and teeth, the grizzlies easily catch the pinkish fish as they struggle upstream. The salmon itself baffles man with its unique homing ability. One of nature's greatest puzzles is how a salmon, after years at sea, returns to the same stream bed it was born in to deposit eggs. Another favorite Denali inhabitant is the wolf.