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CamOp Photo Winners: May, June, and July

CamOps are responsible for giving us the best seat in the house. Always making sure we have the best view, CamOps volunteer their time to making our lives richer. We are so thankful for their hard work and keen eye giving us some of the most beautiful snapshots. Therefore, we present the CamOp Photo Winners

Remembering CamOp Maddie

Some of you never met Madelaine “Maddie” Martin, but those of you who did could never forget her. She was 16 when she started cam op’ing for us. This was after a false start (of sorts). She was due to start on February 9, 2015. I got a call that morning from her father saying

On Cloud 9: CamOp for a Day

By: Cloud  I started watching the cams in 2011. Like many of you, I quickly became infatuated by the Bears of Katmai. I lurked for a time and then posted as a guest for a while (back when that was an option) before signing up and becoming an official member of the explore.org family of

CamOp Photo Winners of July

Can you believe it is already almost September? I guess we were all so busy watching all the action on the live cams that we didn’t realize summer had sped by. Thankfully, our trusty CamOps have stepped up and taken some amazing snapshots this summer. Here are the winners for the month of July! FIRST

Brown Bear Story: CamOp Kat

“It was July 25, 2013… my first season volunteering on the bear cams. I had been on the Service Dog Project cameras for four months and now here I was at Katmai where I had already fallen in love with Beadnose and her cubs. This morning though, Brooke and her three spring cubs were walking

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