Muldoon Area Trail Photos and Videos<\/a> which has over 10,000 members.<\/p>\n\u201cFor the most part, they enjoy them,” she said. “And some are surprised by what I get on them. One of the reasons I post stuff, I want them to know what’s real close and just be careful. I don’t want to scare anybody, be prepared, and then just enjoy yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Stantorf, the biologist, agrees. He was born and raised near Chugiak and said he grew up knowing bears and moose were his neighbors and to always be alert for them. It\u2019s common to see those large animals in the municipality, he said, but it\u2019s more rare to see smaller ones, like foxes, wolverines or lynx.<\/p>\n
The city ran an ad campaign in the early 2000\u2019s that had just the words \u201cBig. Wild. Life.\u201d Stantorf said that campaign was spot on \u2014 the green belts scattered across the city are a natural travel corridor for wild animals, which he said makes Anchorage a truly unique place to live.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is that interaction, and that interface between an urban setting, and a very wooded setting,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have that wildlife moving back and forth, because we have a lot of wildlife friendly habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Emily Bokar talks about the wildlife she sees through her six cameras on June 23, 2025. She has always been an animal lover, she said. While going to school in Boston, she said her pets were the squirrels that spent time in the common areas. And now, her yard is a “moose superhighway.”<\/p>\n
Emily Bokar lives right next to one of those greenbelts, not far from downtown Anchorage.<\/p>\n
It makes it so her six security cameras around her duplex capture a ton of activity, but it\u2019s not the typical foot traffic most homeowners look for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see critters every single day,\u201d she said while scrolling through her favorite footage on her TV \u2014 a wandering bulky black bear, a magpie funeral and two moose chomping down on Halloween pumpkins. \u201cI call it a moose superhighway, just because they zip through our yard a lot. They’re just part of our everyday life moving through.”<\/p>\n
The footage is one of the first things she checks for each morning, she said. If one of her cameras catches movement, even smaller animals like birds and mice, a live view shoots up on her living room television to watch in real-time.<\/p>\n
In the nearly five years Bokar has lived here, her cameras have also captured a bear family sniffing her flower baskets and tons of moose, even one that almost caused a collision with her on the \u201csuperhighway” that connects her to a city greenbelt. <\/p>\n
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Emily Bokar scrolled her favorite wildlife footage on June 23, 2025. This bear duo spent several minutes by her front door, smelling her flowers, and investigating her doorstep.<\/p>\n
Her neighbors text each other when there\u2019s wildlife nearby, or when they capture incredible footage, she said.<\/p>\n
Bokar said Alaska\u2019s landscape and wildlife make her feel a sense of belonging, so much so that she changed her voter registration just five days after moving north \u2014 she knew this was home.<\/p>\n
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