Bart the bear

Trained by Doug and Lynne Seus, Bart the Bear's legacy was as giant as he was. Meet Vital Ground's first ambassador, an actor, conservationist, and friend.

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It’s a long way from the cold, rainy valleys of northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains to the bright lights of Hollywood. But they are both bear country, in very different ways. Hollywood is about myths — taking old myths and digging them deeper. Grafting on new, odd branches to existing myths. Hollywood plays to the mythology […]

Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) threat display. Standing fully upright, a large male could reach a height of 3 m (10 ft). The Kodiak is a subspecies of brown bear that lives exclusively in Alaska on islands in the Kodiak Archipelago: Kodiak, Afongnak and Shuak. They’ve been isolated from other bears for about 12,000 years.

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Oso gigante.

Doug Seus and Bart the Bear at an event for The Edge (1997)

Bart the Bear

Animal Actor. Doug and Lynne Seus adopted Bart when he was 5 weeks old, a tiny Kodiak brown bear that was born in the Baltimore Zoo to a captive bear. Bart grew to over nine feet tall and weighed over 1,500 pounds in his prime. Because of his impressive size and good-natured demeanor, Bart was in huge demand in the...