It is incredibly difficult being a mother bear. People often ask me if bears need to be “managed “ by us humans to keep a healthy population- but bears manage their own population just fine. This is part of a video I took yesterday of a male bear going after three tiny cubs of the year and the mother bear trying to defend them. She lost two cubs within minutes and managed to save one while risking her life trying to defend them from the much larger male. As sad as this is, this is how apex speci