In case you’re intent on seeing a few of Alaska’s brown bears mow down migrating salmon this summer season, now’s the time to enter the McNeil River bear viewing lottery.
Entrants vie for the prospect to snag a allow that permits them to look at the bears that reside within the distant McNeil River State Recreation Sanctuary, some 100 air miles from Homer. As many as 80 bears have been noticed there directly, based on the Alaska Division of Fish and Recreation.
Those that win a allow can watch bears someday between June 7 and Aug. 25. An software prices $30, due by mail or on-line by March 1.
[Apply for McNeil bear-viewing here]
Two permits are additionally out there by way of Fish and Recreation’s nonprofit, the Out of doors Heritage Basis of Alaska. Winners get two permits for June 15-18 and cash for lodging and journey. That raffle may be entered till April 2.
Winners can be chosen in mid-March. If chosen, Alaska residents pay for a $225 allow per individual, whereas nonresidents pay a $525 payment.
“Price the fee?” Fish and Recreation requested within the information launch. “Completely.”