The Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition team and I recently hosted Casey Anderson and a National Geographic TV crew to film content for an upcoming episode of America the Wild: Gator Country.

While working on a cattle ranch in the Everglades Headwaters region of Central Florida, I set up a remote camera on a clearing of rare cutthroat grass among pine flatwoods and ancient scrub. Joe Guthrie and colleagues from the University of Kentucky were trapping black bears nearby to outfit them with GPS tracking collars and National Geographic CritterCams.

You can see a short GoPro video clip of a bear cub coming into the clearing and hear the shutter of my dSLR camera firing. Check out the the resulting still frame below.

Learn more about The Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition team’s 1,000-mile trek through the heart of Florida and their groundbreaking efforts to conserve the Everglades.