A looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week.
threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week.
Alaska’s most-watched popularity contest, Fat Bear Week involves residents picking their favorite fat brown bear who’s been stocking up for winter by noshing on salmon in Katmai National Park & Preserve. vote in tournament-style brackets for those they want to advance to the next round until a champion is crowned in the weeklong contest. employees count and release those votes — and a shutdown won’t allow them to do so because it would trigger a ban on using the park’s official social media accounts for as long as the government is closed.
“Should a lapse happen, we will need to postpone Fat Bear Week,” Cynthia Hernandez, a park spokesperson, said in an email to The Associated Press.
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