Wild Bear Rescue

Northern Lights Shelter is crawling with a record number of black bears when a seriously injured new cub comes in. Angelika works around the clock to try to save her. Volunteer Thomas is put in charge of raising a fawn who becomes an internet sensation after a farmer delivered her by roadside C-section.

Angelika needs to start releasing the yearling black bears back to the wild, but tranquilizing the first two proves difficult. Volunteers Kim and Amy try to release two squirrels they've raised from infancy, but the job takes a funny and humiliating turn.

Angelika is about to release four more yearling bears back to the wild when she gets a more pressing call. A mother bear has been shot and three orphaned cubs need to be rescued. Tanja and Kim take over the release of two yearling bears and see how basic instincts instantly take over.

Angelika is preparing to move the cubs into a bigger cage when two new traumatized black bears arrive. One is showing signs of extreme stress while the other just curls up in the corner of his pen. Angelika must figure out how to help them both.

The last two yearling bears to be released seem to grow too attached to the volunteers. If Angelika can't teach them a healthy fear of humans, they could put the whole bear rehab program in jeopardy.

The Northern Lights team prep for their biggest event of the year, the shelter's annual Open House. As hundreds arrive Angelika tries to rescue a fawn mauled by dogs, while Kim worries the crowd might spook one of the shyest bear cubs.

Peter and Angelika are called out to rescue two black bear cubs whose mother was killed by a car, but a surprise call sends them on a second rescue mission midway. Volunteer Thomas makes an important decision about his career. Kim and Shawn rescue an injured fawn but it is unclear if it will survive.

Angelika is working 24/7 when she makes an uncharacteristic mistake, leaving a cage door unlocked. Two cubs escape and she must try to get them back. Meanwhile, Peter tries to capture a wily wolf named Odin.

It's been the rainiest summer in years and the black bear enclosure has turned into a mudbath, making it a potential breeding ground for infection. One cub gets sick while another falls and rips open her belly. Angelika and Peter race to complete a bigger, safer enclosure for the bears.

Fights break out in the bear cage as Angelika struggles to find enough food to fatten the cubs up for winter. A fawn goes missing. A rescue gets dangerous when a cub feels cornered.

It's the first grizzly cub rescue of the season. Tanya and Peter head to the coast to search for an orphan grizzly that has been spotted wandering alone, but the cub proves elusive. Back at the shelter Angelika must tranquilize and move 40 black bears quickly to make room for the incoming grizzly.

Winter is approaching and the shelter team is prepping 40 cubs to hibernate together when new volunteer Brooke notices two cubs have become deathly ill. Angelika and the local vet fight to save their lives.