A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim Bodkin. Click image for a larger view. Ironically, it is the otter's fur that brought the animal to the brink of extinction.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, sea otters have recolonized Glacier Bay National Park with a vengeance. Several times each July, when the weather over southeast Alaska’s Glacier Bay National ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

FAILED REINTRODUCTION Sea otters were once abundant on the West Coast, from Baja California up through Alaska. They co-existed for millennia with Indigenous people who saw them as respected kin ...