Sometimes, the bears just win! That seems to be the verdict after months of repeatedly repairing a weather station installed among the giant sequoia as part of Save the Redwoods League’s Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative. My researcher colleagues, Anthony Ambrose and Wendy Baxter, installed a wildlife camera at our Giant Forest study site and caught the rascally black bears in action.

See a want-to-be circus bear go swinging from the weather station and tearing it to shreds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdAudaKo7Js

Watch a mother black bear and her cub make a rough inspection of the weather station:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG9GU-qlPfU

Hear the researchers’ perspective on trying to study climate change with help from some bad news bears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsLYkt8LLU

To learn more about what we have learned so far through the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative, click here.