Congrats the winner of the Share the Experience photo contest! Gregory Cameron Teller took home the contest’s grand prize for his touching photo of a baby polar bear and its mama at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska – an honor that includes having his photo appear on the 2016 America the Beautiful public lands pass. This was Teller’s first time visiting the wildlife refuge, and of the experience, he says, “We stayed a couple of days in a village in the refuge where bear’s frequented this part of the landscape. Moments with mothers and their cubs were just perfect; especially this shot as the cub reached up to his mother.” Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 4/30/15.
Your daily dose of cute: A bear cub hanging out in a tree at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina and Tennessee). Black bears give birth during hibernation, and the female bears and their cubs usually emerge from their winter dens in late March and early April. Photo by M&D Hills Photography. http://www.mdhillsphotography.com. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 4/19/15.
Baby moose in Alaska. Photo by Bob Wicks. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 4/22/15.
Here’s a cute pic of one of the new bison calves at Iowa’s Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 5/7/15.