Bears Bother Lonely Science Instruments
![A lynx walks near a buried seismometer in a frame from a game-camera video. Seismologist Carl Tape installed the camera to confirm that bears were digging up his equipment. Courtesy of Carl Tape. Bears Bother Lonely Science Instruments](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image17-06-2016-11.25.31.jpg)
Interior Alaska is a hungry place — lots of boreal forest and swampy wetlands with big, flat rivers winding through. Wildlife sightings, especially of big mammals, are rare. But a recent video posted by a seismologist makes the Tanana River flats look like the Serengeti. A motion-triggered game camera installed above buried instruments shows visits […]