The Week That Almost Didn’t Happen | Summer 2025

Every year, around January, we start getting the calls. Families who’ve been coming to Sandbar Lake for years — sometimes decades — calling to book their usual week. ✓ They already know which cabin they want. ✓ They already know…

What Does It Take to Grow a 650-Pound Black Bear?

Somewhere in the boreal forest near Sandbar Lake, in a Wildlife Management Unit that stretches across thousands of hectares of spruce, jack pine, and poplar, a black bear grew to 650 pounds. That doesn’t happen by accident. It takes years…

The Evening the Forest Went Quiet

There’s a moment every bear hunter knows. You’ve been sitting for an hour. The mosquitoes have settled. The birds have gone quiet. The light is starting to change — that amber glow that only happens in late August when the…