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What's going on, Coyote Pack and welcome back

to base camp, Montana edition.

That's right.

Again, real fire, real mountains,

and today real marshmallows.

- Yes. - Ooh.

Are you guys ready? You guys-- here, Mario.

Yes, yes.

Stay-Pufts.

Let's grab some.

We got some--

- nice retractable.

This is, like, fancy. - I know.

We didn't even have to carve these with sticks.

- Here you go, Mark. - Thank you.

You washed your hands, right, Mario?

Of course.

Hey, give me one more.

Got to get one out there for the camera team.

There you go.

Mario, I'm down one.

Here you go, bud.

All right.

Hey, hey.

Hey, easy.

I get ferocious for marshmallows and deservingly

so because today's episode is all about somebody who

actually loves marshmallows.

You know who I'm talking about?

Oh, yeah.

He's got a big sweet tooth.

Big, 750 pounds big.

A grizzly big.

That's right, guys.

We're going back to the episode called "Grizzly

Attack," which was amazing.

We got to work with Adam, a 750-pound male grizzly

bear to show you guys what to do or not do if you ever find

yourself in that worst case scenario where

you come upon a grizzly bear in the wild.

So cook s'mores now or after we do the work?

No, Mario, stop.

No.

First, we have to do our work, and then we

can have our snacks.

So let's review the video and then it's s'mores time.

All right.

Sounds like a plan.

Here we go.

There's your pine cone shot.

Back up real quick.

Hold on a second.

Just so you guys know Mark loves to try

to get pine cones in shots.

But it's got to be the perfect pine cone,

and it has to be the perfect frame.

So we figured, you know, well, let's

get an epic pine cone shot.

And he kicked off the grizzly bear video.

Yeah, this a little bit of a process.

You got to scour the whole forest

for the perfect pine cone.

That's a good look at pine cone.

And the right beam of light.

I'm pretty proud of that one.

I've got some other ones. - Yeah.

That shot may have won the award.

Is that the reason?

Let's not-- we'll talk about the award afterward.

OK.

And we'll do that while we're cooking s'mores.

Was a good shot, though. Thanks.

I'm Coyote Peterson--

Selfie stick in action.

Look at that.

And we tend to forget that in the wilderness,

we are no longer at the top of the food chain.

Oh, buddy.

I tell you what, some of those shots

have been,

So pause it for just a second.

We're going to get into how we got those shots,

but getting bear shots is a lot tougher

than probably anybody thinks.

It's a lot of movie magic.

And it takes a lot of courage, right?

It's actually a little dangerous.

Very dangerous.

Absolutely.

Keep rolling, OK.

I've got a lot of marshmallows.

COYOTE You see we got the bear

tracks in the animation here with some elephant

tracks, old logo.

Retro logo.

There's no wilderness

greater than the back country of Montana.

The clouds were epic this day.

It is home to some of North America's

most incredible animals.

Every year, thousands of adventurers,

Actually those shots are from right

back here on property.

Escaping the confines of everyday life.

So first time we ever put a specialty

camera underneath a car.

I remember being like, man, I hope we don't hit the camera.

Because we only had one specialty camera.

That's the camera on the front of my selfie stick.

Bear country.

They actually pause that right there.

Go back to that shot.

What's cool is that like, that's a real sign.

We didn't put that there.

We didn't print this and hang it up on something.

Do you think people realize that you're

actually in the shot?

You see a rear in the corner?

You're like walking by.

- It's a Where's Waldo shot. - How many out there saw that?

If you really saw that before I mentioned it,

tell me in the comment section.

I'm curious to see how many people pick

up on those little details. - Where's Waldo?

Where's Coyote?

Yeah but yeah we were hiking.

And we saw that and we had to read it and obey what the sign

was saying, to be safe.

Is a common instance

it can happen when hiking out here

in the back country of Montana.

So you're actually looking at

That was epic.

Yeah go back to that shot.

Yeah I mean, Adam, he's roaring.

And you got Coyote there with a hat.

Like that's just epic.

I remember we actually printed those out, made some cards

and stuff.

We had some cool, cool photographs and screen grabs

from that, and I'm really close to that bear,

with like mouth full open, giving you that display.

And it's nerve racking, that's for sure.

You got a little hornet friend hanging out here.

That's OK, it's only a two on the insect

We're out here, obviously outdoors,

and we have some yellow jackets that

are attracted to marshmallow.

You know, if this becomes a sting segment that's OK.

We already did that episode.

We'll be opportunistic.

Mark needs to get stung.

What about you?

No, let Coyote pick.

Keep it focused on the bears, guys.

is Adam.

Now Adam was raised in captivity and he's a bear that's

used for educational purposes.

And as an ambassador for his species.

How nervous are you right there?

Pretty nervous, that's the closest I've

ever been to a Grizzly bear.

First time I ever worked with a bear of this size,

or any bear for that matter.

Scenario number one and best case

for you is, that you stumble upon a grizzly bear

and it doesn't see you.

This has happened to you.

They've redone the real thing.

I've used this exact scenario before in the wild,

Use your own advice, huh?

You turn a corner and all of a sudden,

it's you and a grizzly bear.

You see the bear and the bear sees you.

And this is the most dangerous situation.

I love that shot there of his eyes and I'm watching you.

Look how well it blends into the environment.

Yeah it really looks it's amazing there.

That's a good one to talk about, so that roar

right there.

Yeah let's listen to one more time.

Did Adam really make that roar?

Adam does not make that roar.

That's a huge misconception about all bear films.

That's right.

In order for the trainers to get them to open

their mouths in a non-aggressive way,

it's actually food induced.

Basically you wave a marshmallow

in front of Adam's face and he opens

his mouth because he's going to catch that marshmallow.

That's right and he does get it.

He does get it, yeah.

He gets a lot of them.

Yeah Adam ate a lot of marshmallows that day.

But as Mark mentioned, you see tons of films or documentaries

where they add in that sound effect after the fact.

Bear's actually don't roar.

Not unless they're really angry and aggressive.

If a bear is roaring at you in your face for real,

you're a lot of trouble.

Yeah so and that's not something

that you want to happen when you're making

a video about educating people.

We certainly don't want to antagonize

the bear to get it to roar.

So it's a little movie magic.

Thought we'd clue you guys in on how we did that.

Well and the care and the comfort

that goes through making something like this so

that the crew is safe and the animal safe

is of the utmost importance.

Adam was never upset during the filming.

He was actually very happy and getting tons of marshmallows.

Whoa bear, whoa bear,

if that bear feels threatened,

I love that perspective there.

Once you know that the bear is out

of eye sight, you hop it to your car or

wherever it was that you came from,

I think he's looking for a marshmallow

right there, actually.

You're always nervous when there's a bear on set.

Oh man, having a 750 pound animal next to

you is quite intimidating.

Now what happened there, Coyote?

I got up a little bit.

Adam swatting at you, how was that done?

That's one of Adam's commands.

What's amazing is that Adam has actually been featured

in a number of different famous movies

and also television commercials.

He, just like you would train a show dog or a canine working

with a police unit, these bears are so smart you

can actually train them.

So he had different movements that like,

they could do this or do this.

And he would go woo woo like that and swing his paws.

He would put his ears back.

Amazing how smart he was.

Yeah and I think Adam was so well behaved, so well trained,

that, and you tell me how you felt. But to me

it almost like Adam was like a big dog.

After a while like it was like you

kind of like lost the sense of like intimidation

because he was so well behaved.

I didn't.

Yeah I didn't lose,

When you're on the ground like that,

that bear is literally about 4 feet from me swiping his

paws with full-on bear claws.

I was super nervous to do that.

You know, he was so big, his presence was so big.

And sometimes when he was doing his commands,

yes, it's intimidating.

But then he's got this like look in his eyes

and his ears are kind of like normal,

he does look you know gentle.

But you don't want to get too close.

I got close, super close.

We could tell.

Whoa and that noise there that you hear, that's real.

He was actually making that noise.

Throw it to the bear

and try to distract it so that you can get away.

Bad idea.

On your back this is your barrier.

That's what most people think.

Throw your backpack at the bear.

Like a distraction?

You do not want to throw your backpack at the bear.

As quickly as possible get down here like this.

Tuck in.

Press your arms against your legs.

And most importantly, get your hands behind.

I remember getting those shots.

So that's the closest.

That's the closest.

So actually hold there on that.

So you see this?

When he's like there, I'm holding that specialty camera.

That's how we got some of those shots

with like that drool coming down.

So I'm holding a camera next to my face.

One of the most nervous situations I've ever been in.

That's bear nose and jaws up against your neck

and your head.

Look how big his muzzle is next to my head.

You said you could feel him breathing on you.

Does it happen in the video where he knocks your hat off?

Because I remember a couple, do we pause or cut those?

I don't remember if that's in there.

But it is in some takes.

We're like, he would brush my hat off

and he's sniffing around.

I mean, the size of that bear's head, next my whole entire head

could fit in his mouth if he wanted it to.

I mean that's like "Revenant" style right there, yeah.

I don't think Leo used a real bear though.

I used a real bear, Leo, just saying.

That was my favorite shot.

Might take a couple of bites,

he might take a couple of swipes.

Using this,

That shot, these were so tough to get.

You can actually, hold on, that's kind of funny.

You could see here.

See that little mustache.

That's from all the marshmallows.

Is that a marshmallow mustache right there?

That's a marshmallow mustache right there.

But he looks so angry and aggressive there.

Again getting those shots, what we did

is multiple camera angles.

Actually the specialty cameras out sort of on sticks

and they would command Adam to do these swipes.

We kept them from a low angle.

And a couple of times he hit the camera.

I mean but he was having a blast.

Yeah and it's not like a stick to hit,

actually the sticks had a little marshmallow on the end of them.

So kind of like this.

Right and he'd swipe at them.

Survival by about 90% Wow.

How did Adam's breath smell?

Like marshmallows.

I just gave you three great tactics

for surviving a bear encounter.

But there is one other thing that could save your life,

bear spray. Bear spray.

bear country without it.

If you have a bear in,

It is one of the safest things you can take with you

into the back country but you're going

to be real close to that bear to have to use that bear spray.

That's a last resort.

Sort of worst case scenario.

I think avoiding the attack altogether

is the best [inaudible].

Paying attention to all the warning signs or when

you're hiking, be in groups, things

like that, that can actually

Being loud.

Yes singing songs.

You like to sing songs.

I sing lots of songs. Yo, bear on the mountaintop

that's one of my favorites.

Bears use their noses

to follow their prey.

What I liked about this episode is this

is one of the first ones we did where we then

transitioned from just like experience

into like educational presentation.

Made this episode a little more girthy.

It gave it more substance, yeah.

This is like a very real moment in the video

where Adam wasn't really supposed to be

like coming closer to you.

He's eating the grass.

And you can see when he moves his paw

closer uncomfortable you get.

Watch this.

Look at this, these are quick moves.

You're like, oh boy.

So you may wonder what is Adam eating here?

He's actually eating the grasses.

He loves to just chop down on these sweet grasses.

They're omnivores, right Mario?

Yeah Grizzlies are omnivores.

One feature about this bear is incredibly

impressive is those front paws.

He's huge.

Absolutely enormous and at the ends,

And the thing that's important to note

is that Adam is 750 pounds as a grizzly bear.

Now this is sort of the lower United

States grizzly bear variety.

You go further north into Alaska and then

get into like the Kodiak bears.

They're well over 1,000 pounds.

Oh yeah sure, you get bears that

are bigger than that, for sure.

- of a grizzly bear.

Grizzlies also have incredible hearing.

And that's why you don't often see bears in the wild

because they can hear you coming from miles away.

Way more afraid of you than you

really should be of them unless you stumble upon one.

Look at him, he's just nestled down in the grass,

Their territory range from central

This is pretty cool.

Our editor, Chris, actually put this together,

a nice little territory shot.

They've been pushed to near extinction

here in the lower 48.

Only 800 Grizzlies still live here in Montana and about 600

in Wyoming, all of whom live at Yellowstone National Park.

Yeah bears.

Completely awe inspired to be

in the presence of a bear.

Look at him, he's just like sitting there.

It's something that hopefully

you never find yourselves in.

He did sort of do that Winnie the Pooh sit sometimes.

Yeah, yeah and he would scratch

himself I remember he kind of just

started scratching himself.

Be brave, stay wild.

We'll see,

He's like I want more marshmallows.

Well that's pretty cool.

Definitely one of the most epic episodes we've ever made.

It is cool that it came in the first season of Breaking Trail.

We went from snapping turtles to Grizzly bears.

It's pretty big.

It definitely set the bar.

I mean it was by far the most ambitious video of season one

that we tackled.

And you know, it also won us a pretty cool award.

Mario, do you remember that?

Yeah, it's an award winning segment.

Emmy award winning segment.

Emmy award winning segment, it's

before all the other awards, very first one.

Speaking of big things, I think it's about time

to roast these marshmallows.

That's right, I would say that the work

is done other than the outro.

You guys ready for that?

Yeah let's do that.

I'm Coyote Petersen.

I'm Mark Vins.

I'm Mario Aldecoa.

Be brave.

Stay wild.

We'll see you on the next base camp adventure.

It's s'mores time.

So do you burn yours or do you like to go for a really

like nice and even roast?

Hot diggity dog, I do.

I like these marshmallows to burn.

This is Montana fire.

Nice and juicy.

I'll tell you what you don't want to do

is shake this marshmallow.

Same way you wouldn't want to shake a bear.

Never shake a bear.

That one's good to go.

Quick, graham cracker me, somebody.

Graham crackers.

Grahams.

Crew, graham cracker.

Toss it.

Oh they melted.

Chocolate, you're just going to have to kind of like--

Smear it on your cracker, man.

Schmear it.

Chocolate sauce.

All right, I'm digging in. You guys ready?

Yeah right here we go.

Oh man, here we go.

All right.

Oh my gosh, that's good.

Delicious.

Oh yeah.

I'll tell you what, guys you really can't beat having

a s'more on a Montana fire.

You know this would look like if we were in the office?

Huge mess, plus we'd probably get ants.

Great

Uh oh, man down.

Whoa, oh I'm making a mess guys, but.

I got a little toast.

Adam, this one's for you, old bear.

Over the years

our adventures to Australia have taught us the true essence

of what it means to be brave.

From its deadly snakes to its lethal spiders,

bravery is required to traverse these rugged lands.

But if there's any Australian creature that has earned

the honor of being most brave, it

may very well be Australia's favorite fuzzy friend,

the koala.

Today I'm teaming up once again with fellow YouTuber, Miller

Wilson, to learn more about this endemic species

and how all koalas are proving their bravery in the face

of historic wildfires.

Sadly, these fires have threatened

their very existence.

So please stay tuned to the end of this video to learn how you

can join Brave Wilderness and Miller

Wilson to help save the koala.

What's going on, everybody?

We are back again today in Australia

with our good friend and fellow YouTuber, Miller Wilson.

And he's brought along one of his friends, Mango.

And I can definitely see why they get the name koala bear.

However maybe that's a good place to start.

It is not a bear. - It is not a bear.

It's actually a marsupial.

And the reason why they get called

koala bear is because of their teddy bear like appearance.

What does it mean to be a marsupial?

A marsupial is a mammal that has a pouch.

So they're in their pouch for about six to nine months.

And then they'll climb out onto their mother's back.

And it'll take about 18 months before they make their journey

out into the wild.

And that's where they'll start being

independent of their mothers and feeding on eucalyptus,

which is actually toxic.

How is it that an animal is able to eat such toxic diet?

Well it's because of the microbes that's

in their digestive track.

How they actually get that is from eating their mom's poop.

What?

When they're little, they have to kind

of warm themselves up to eating a big eucalyptus

leaf like that.

The mom is actually passing the microbes that break down

the toxic leaves to the young.

Man, that is not a good first meal.

So the eucalyptus leaves, it's their source of water, as well.

And that has something to do with their name.

Koala in indigenous language means no drink.

It was once thought that these koalas

would never have to come out of their tree to drink water.

They get most of it out of these eucalyptus leaves.

They get to sleep quite a bit.

These guys nap.

They sleep for up to 18 hours a day sometimes.

18 hours?

Yeah now there is a lot of misconceptions as to why

these koalas sleep so much.

And it's because of these leaves right here.

There's not much nutrients in them.

And if we were eating lettuce all day or something,

we'd probably sleep for that long as well.

Miller, I came a long way from America to Australia

to see one of these koalas.

Do you mind if I hold one? - You can hold one.

Here we go. Holding a koala.

Miller, were these claws as sharp

for you as they are for me?

They were.

I forgot to warn you about them.

They're pretty sharp.

My goodness, they're like little razors.

But I guess they need those to climb the trees.

They do because they don't want to fall

out of a 20 foot tall gum tree.

This coat is extremely dense.

I mean, I can't even really see through Mango's coat.

Why is the koala equipped with such a thick fur?

So there's three layers of fur in there.

And it's designed to keep them warm in winter, cool in summer,

and to keep that rain off them as you can see.

Starting to get down, this guy will keep it nice and dry.

So one of the reasons that we really wanted to come out today

is that you are actually an ambassador for the Queensland

Koala Crusaders.

So, Miller, what are some of the initiatives

of the Koala Crusaders?

Well rescue and rehabilitation, reforestation,

and they're actually building a sanctuary for these koalas

so they can live out a happy life.

You know, of course, in America

we've heard about the devastating fires

that have been here in Australia over the past few months.

Can you tell us a little bit about the state

of the koala right now?

Even before all these fires, these koalas were in trouble.

And it's terrible to see an Australian species

that everyone knows just get pushed down even further.

So if you click on that link in the description

you can actually help aid the Queensland

Koala Crusaders and their efforts

to help this amazing species.

If you can't, spreading the word also helps as well.

Spreading the word helps.

Anything can help.

So tell your friends, tell everyone,

share this video around.

Anything helps.

Well Miller, I think it's about time to put Mango down

for his nap, his 18 hour nap.

And thank you so much for hanging out with us today.

It's always a pleasure to work with you.

Hopefully you learned a little bit more

today about the koala and how you can make a difference

for this amazing species.

I'm Mark Vins. - I'm Miller Wilson.

Be brave.

Stay wild.

We'll see you on the next adventure.

All right Mango, let's go put you back in your tree.

The Erie islands are a unique biodiverse

ecosystem and are home to a wide variety of animal species,

including the incredibly rare Blanding's turtle.

So making sure that its environment

is free of human oriented pollution

is of utmost importance.

Today we are on Middle Bass island,

where an isolated population of these turtles

has been discovered living in a small marsh.

This body of water has recently taken

on a heavy haul of pollution due to extreme storm surge.

Any time we go to a location we oftentimes have trash bags

with us, primarily to keep cameras dry

just in case it starts to rain.

But in this instance, I'm going to take a bag.

Mario, I'm going to hand a bag to you.

What we're going to do now is take the next hour

to head off down into the marsh and pick up some of the trash

that we find.

That will ensure a healthy and happy ecosystem for all

the species that live here.

Hey Coyote, I think you can reach this guy right here.

Plastic floater right there.

Oh well that's glass.

Grody.

That is an old bottle right there.

I got to be careful with that one

so that it doesn't break and cut my hand.

Well it's going to add a lot of weight.

Man, that's pretty nasty right there.

Look at this.

That is a giant lid to something.

Definitely does not belong in the environment.

And I'll toss this up on the road and pick it up.

It's not going to fit in my bag.

OK we'll come back to that one.

So often it's the little pieces

that are overlooked, like bottle caps

and plastic caps like this.

Oftentimes these make a bigger impact in the environment

because they're smaller, An animal could eat this thinking

it's an insect or something.

But in this area right here you've

got hundreds, hundreds of pieces of these little plastics.

Now when it comes to pieces of wood, I leave those.

Because those are actually great platforms for

turtles to lay out on and bask.

Same with frogs, frogs will oftentimes come out

and sit in the sun to warm up.

All right, I got a lot of the trash back there.

How's it going so far?

So far, so good, man.

Look at this.

A whole bottle of something, that's just water in there.

Yeah what's your coolest find?

Fishing lures.

I'm finding that there are a lot of fishing lures

in here, which is really bad.

The good news is the fishing lures

strangely did not have hooks.

But fishing lures, because they're little fish,

can oftentimes be mistaken for food by turtles.

So I'm really glad to see that none of them had hooks

and obviously none of them were in the mouths of turtles.

Fishing lures are definitely something

that I'm finding a lot of.

How's your bag doing?

It's doing good.

I'm focusing on a lot of the smaller objects.

So it may not be as heavy, but there is

a lot of little things in it.

There's a lot of tiny, miscellaneous plastic pieces

that could go overlooked.

And those are quite dangerous because animals

could potentially swallow them if they're kind of bite-sized.

So yeah, that's what I'm trying to focus on,

these little plastic things.

Look at that, that's just a little cap right there.

I'm pretty maxed out, man.

Oh yeah.

That's a lot of garbage.

That's about 10 pounds worth of trash right there.

What time is it?

Oh we are a little bit over an hour.

Spent a little over an hour.

I think considering my bag is pretty full

and I'm seeing a lot of duck weed and not a lot of pollution

means I think we can call it a day.

I think we've done our job here.

All right.

All right, good job.

Cleaning up the environment.

Human encroachment

is a major threat that animals like the Blanding's turtles

face on a constant basis.

And while we as a species are certainly here to stay,

there are many ways in which we can

help keep wild places clean.

One of the simplest steps is simply picking up litter,

whether it's in a wetland ecosystem or your community

park every little bit counts.

All right guys, well the Blanding turtles

environment is officially cleaned

up to the best of our ability.

That's the largest piece I found,

some sort of a plastic top to a container.

And between myself and Mario, We collected

around 25 pounds worth of garbage out of this swamp.

Now us coming out to collect it isn't going

to remove every single piece.

But every little bit helps.

I'm Coyote Petersen.

Be brave, stay wild.

We'll see you on the next location.