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Kendra Fortmeyer is author of the novel Hole in the Middle, and a Pushcart Prize-winning writer with fiction in Best American Nonrequired Reading, One Story, The Toast, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the Clarion SFF Workshop and UT Austin New Writers Project, and a (very minor) contributing editor at Split Lip Magazine. She wrote this story while pregnant, and

The story of how a female grizzly is trying to survive and keep her cubs alive in the Lake Louise area.

The story of how a female grizzly is trying to survive and keep her cubs alive in the Lake Louise area.

The story of how a female grizzly is trying to survive and keep her cubs alive in the Lake Louise area.

The story of how a female grizzly is trying to survive and keep her cubs alive in the Lake Louise area.

“I find it really sad that people who live in town are not invested in doing the best they can to live with those other creatures that live around us."

“But based on the clip that is online, it does not look to me like the bears are stalking people. I think they were just walking on the trail, just going from A to B."

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At least five black bears are hanging around the Banff townsite in search of an easy meal to fatten up ahead of the long winter’s hibernation.

“Parks Canada staff investigated and found female grizzly Bear 142 and her yearling cub had successfully predated the adult goat next to the main hiking trail."