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road. Those alders will be perfect.”
Buck waited while Shoop and Toni set up. Then he
walked slowly across the tundra, sometimes sneaking
behind alder bushes and peering out, sometimes crouch-
ing low.
“Hi! I’m Buck Bray, and I’m in Denali National Park
and Preserve in Alaska. I’ve just spotted a grizzly bear and
her two cubs.” Buck spoke very quietly as if he really were
creeping up on a 450-pound grizzly and her 100-pound
cubs. But in reality, the bears were almost a mile away.
They made a few other shots and then put the equip-
ment back into the truck.
“I didn’t know it would be like that,” Buck told Dad.
“You can’t believe everything you see on TV. There’s a
lot of manipulation to make things appear the way you
want the viewers to see them.”
“Could we get some audio on those bears eating?”
Shoop asked Craig. “I couldn’t do that from the bus, but
I could hear them. It was incredible.”
They piled into the truck. Craig drove slowly, pulling
to the side of the road when they neared the bears. Shoop
