Wild Bear Rescue

Northern Lights Shelter is housing a record number of black bears; Angelika works around the clock to try to save an orphan bear cub hit by a car; Thomas is charged with raising a fawn delivered by roadside C-section.

Angelika struggles to tranquilize two yearling bears at the shelter so they can be released; Kim juggles bear care and a squirrel release.

Angelika attempts to rescue three cubs whose mother was shot; Tanja and Kim head out to release two yearling bears and watch how instinct takes over.

Two traumatized cubs arrive at the shelter and Angelika employs a variety of approaches when each cub shows different signs of extreme stress.

Two yearling bears appear too attached to the volunteers to be released to the wild; Angelika must condition them to fear people.

When thousands of people turn out to the shelter's annual Open House, Angelika balances public relations with caring for a seriously injured fawn.

Peter and Angelika race to rescue two cubs whose mother was hit by a car.

Angelika is exhausted and accidentally leaves a cage door unlocked; when two cubs escape, she must try to get them back; Peter tries to capture a wily wolf.

One cub becomes gravely ill and another gets a wound on her belly; Angelika and Peter race to finish a bigger enclosure for the bears.

The cubs fight over food as Angelika struggles to feed them all; a shelter fawn goes missing; a rescue gets dangerous when a cub feels cornered.

Tanya and Peter head to the coast to search for an orphan grizzly cub, leaving Angelika to move 40 black bears into a new pen to make room.

Two cubs become deathly ill from a parasite that has killed many bears. The shelter gets their 45 bears ready for hibernation.