Bears, humans coexist in Alaska park  2013-07-28T00:00:00Z
Bears, humans coexist in Alaska parkThe Associated Press The
Associated Press July 28, 2013 12:00 am  •   KATMAI NATIONAL
PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska - Kim Spanjol has seen gorillas in
Congo and orangutans in Borneo.  But for a honeymoon with her
husband, Jim O'Brien, she planned a trip to Katmai National Park
and Preserve in remote Alaska, where they started seeing brown
bears the minute their floatplane landed on the beach.  "There's
a bear in the water, and there's a bear coming down the beach,"
said Spanjol, a psychologist from New York. "And then, we were
coming in to eat and there was a bear running by, and there were
three bears just over there by the river. So that was amazing to
have it so accessible."  About 10,000 people make the difficult
trek here each summer to see the bears, some staying at a small
lodge or the campground at Brooks Camp, others flying in from
elsewhere in Alaska for the day. The park, a little bigger than
Connecticut, is