University of British Columbia researcher Roger Ramcharita followed radio-tagged grizzly bears’ spring wanderings in the Columbia Mountains. While avalanche tracks made up only 10 percent of Ramcharita’s study area, bears spent 40 percent of their time there eating avalanche-lily roots and other early-blooming plants.

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