Forest Service Update w/Paul Robbins
Oct 21, 2026 · 28 min · 12 segments
Paul joins us today to in the studio to update our listeners about upcoming events and projects related to the Forest Service.
Oct 21, 2026 · 28 min · 12 segments
Paul joins us today to in the studio to update our listeners about upcoming events and projects related to the Forest Service.
This is my favorite part of every single year is I put together with our rangers from the Annan Wildlife Observatory, the Annan Bear Awards.
And every day I put out a new video or series of pictures that highlights the amazing animals we have there.
Mama bear is synonymous with how fiercely protective mother bears are of their cubs.
So this video, which has reached about two and a half million views since Monday, is of Oso, which is one of our local black bears, having a small fight with Scuba Sue, one of our brown bears, at an end, because Scuba Sue got a little too close to her cubs.
And that, that standoff video is, is quite entertaining and people have found it, uh, wonderful to watch and shared it quite a bit.
I'm not going to give away too many of them cause I like to have them revealed when they come out.
But to get an example of the kind of awards we have, one of the next one, my favorites coming out is the dude abides award.
Um, if anybody remembers the movie that that is referenced to, obviously this is a very chill bear.
So the, uh, here in that award, uh, And then on the opposite spectrum, we got the Honey Badger Award, which will be coming out for one of our bears.
And it's a lot of fun to come up with these every year and then to put them out and have people comment and share on them.
Had a
There's so many bear experts out there, especially in the rural states, who could swear that scuba zoo was not in fact a brown bear, but it's actually a cinnamon colored black bear, which is common.
And if you don't inspect the hump around the shoulders or the different snout or the different types of ears that the two species have.
This is my favorite part of every single year is I put together with our rangers from the Annan Wildlife Observatory, the Annan Bear Awards.
And every day I put out a new video or series of pictures that highlights the amazing animals we have there.
Mama bear is synonymous with how fiercely protective mother bears are of their cubs.
So this video, which has reached about two and a half million views since Monday, is of Oso, which is one of our local black bears, having a small fight with Scuba Sue, one of our brown bears, at an end, because Scuba Sue got a little too close to her cubs.
And that, that standoff video is, is quite entertaining and people have found it, uh, wonderful to watch and shared it quite a bit.
I'm not going to give away too many of them cause I like to have them revealed when they come out.
But to get an example of the kind of awards we have, one of the next one, my favorites coming out is the dude abides award.
Um, if anybody remembers the movie that that is referenced to, obviously this is a very chill bear.
So the, uh, here in that award, uh, And then on the opposite spectrum, we got the Honey Badger Award, which will be coming out for one of our bears.
And it's a lot of fun to come up with these every year and then to put them out and have people comment and share on them.
Had a
There's so many bear experts out there, especially in the rural states, who could swear that scuba zoo was not in fact a brown bear, but it's actually a cinnamon colored black bear, which is common.
And if you don't inspect the hump around the shoulders or the different snout or the different types of ears that the two species have.
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