We discovered this picture of Blackheart looking at Lynn Rogers "The Man Who Walks With Bears" in August 2003. I belive it is our best picture. The photo was burried until now.

This great black bear photo is the cover of the book "The Great American Bear" by Jeff Fair and Lynn Rogers. Many of the photographs for sale at Ely Mall are in this enlightning book.

Duffy and Lynn Rogers. In working with wild bears for the past 29 years, I have gradually become more and more comfortable with them as I learned their "language" and how they think. I have learned to trust certain bears and bear families to the extent that they seem to ignore me as I walk and sleep with them for up to 24 hours at a time.

This baby bear photo by Lynn Rogers is in the book The Great American Bear. Lynn says that every one he shows the photo to thinks it is really cute. Lynn referred to the photo as cute bear.

This bear photo by Lynn Rogers is of the bears seen as babies in a den on Animal Planet's "The Man Who Walks With Bears". This photo is also in the Hidden World of Bears exhibit. Blackheart is the mother with her babies Dot and Donna and is also the sister of Whiteheart who died in the movie. Mom and 11-week-old cubs. By July, these cubs replaced their fuzzy brown fur with coarser black fur, and their eyes turned brown. By fall, their black fur was nearly four inches long and a dense layer of insulating under fur had grown in. Thick fur in fall and spring makes bears look fat whether they are or not. Photo: April 12, 1989. Minnesota

Polar bear photo by Lynn Rogers Magnificent animal. Curious only to a point, this calm bear stopped 12 feet away, close enough to reveal its glistening fur. Translucent hairs reflect solar heat down to the base of the shafts where the heat is absorbed by the black skin. Russian biologist Nikita Ovsyanikov spent hundreds of hours walking among polar bears carrying only a stick and reported no problem in over 500 meetings. Photo: October 30, 1982. Manitoba, Canada.

Working for clams. The grizzly's strength and large, digging, claws help them dig faster than the razor clams and butter clams that rapidly retreat a foot or two under the sand. Photo: July 2,1999. Alaska

This photograph is part of the Hidden World of Bears Exhibit. Two content cubs are asleep in their den after nursing. Their mother, still lethargic from hibernation, is exploring the spring surroundings after an early snow melt. Newborn cubs do not hibernate. Their job is to eat, sleep, and grow. These two weigh four pounds at nine weeks of age. Photo: March 21, 1987. Minnesota.

Photo by Lynn Rogers of bear jumping stream.

This photo by Lynn Rogers is part of the Hidden World of Bears exhibit. Grizzly tracks. “Seeing animal tracks is sometimes more powerful than seeing the animals themselves” Cody Dwire 9/22/2000. “It is an honor to walk where such magnificent animals have gone before” Lee Williams 10/3/2000. Photo: August 27, 1996. Alaska

The artist sketch of this picture of Lynn and the baby bears was front page of the Wall Street Journal

The Protector. Grizzly cubs run to their mothers for protection, while black bear cubs run for trees. Attacks by defensive mothers account for 70 percent of human deaths from grizzly bears, but mother black bears are not known to have killed anyone in defense of cubs. The idea that black bear mothers are likely to attack is one of the biggest misconceptions about black bears. Photo: July 1, 1999. Alaska.

A mountain of a bear. Today, the largest brown/grizzly bears are no longer found on Kodiak Island, where many have been killed. They are on the adjacent mainland in Katmai National Park, which is part of the largest grizzly protection area in the world. Photo: June 23, 1998. Alaska

Polar bear photo by Lynn Rogers Churchill, Manitoba

Curious polar bear photo by Lynn Rogers. Although all bears are in the Order Carnivora, the polar bear best lives up to its carnivore classification, fattening primarily on seals. At dusk, this bear curiously approaches an object lying on the tundra but loses interest when it turns out to be a photographer. Many polar bears have been shot for their curiosity. Photo: October 30, 1982. Manitoba, Canada.