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.
Rate 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 mud bath, 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.
Four dominant yearlings are released; a wild bear threatens the bear cub pens.
Two yearlings that bonded after suffering traumatic losses are released; Kim is infatuated with some orphaned calves
Tanja and Shawn embark on a long and hot bear-release trip that turns into a rescue mission; at the shelter, Kim tries to tame a skittish wolf-dog.
An orphaned black bear cub with possible brain damage arrives; Angelika and Kim try to save an injured moose calf.
Things turn dangerous when the team tries to release the grizzly yearling in a remote, alpine valley.
Angelika pulls together volunteers, trucks and barrels to release a record 10 bears; Kim has her hands full with new arrivals at the shelter.
Angelika prepares to collar and release Wasabi, a yearling that fought back from certain death. Meanwhile two newly-arrived cub brothers, Yukon and Taku, look undersized but still have a lot of fight in them.
Kim is about to take Taku, a sick and underweight cub to the vet's for an IV when Jesse discovers Angelika's foal is badly injured. An orphaned wolf pup arrives that can never be released.
Angelika and Peter's try to trap and rescue three orphaned cubs, before luck finally comes their way. At the shelter, volunteer Brooke takes the moose calves she's raised for a last run, before saying goodbye.
Digger, an aggressive orphaned cub doesn't play nicely with others. But when Digger's long-lost sister is rescued and joins him, she tries to set him straight. Angelika also reunites feisty Yukon with his injured little brother Taku, hoping both will benefit from each other's company.
Angelika and Peter rescue Sophie, a shaky cub that is barely alive and try to discover the source of her mysterious illness. A moose 'day-pass" goes awry when one stubborn moose-calf won't come back to his pen.
Angelika moves all her healthy cubs into the hibernation pen for the winter. Sophie, a disabled cub tries everything to fit in. Digger, a cub with a nervous disorder, is too small to join the group. So he's put into a feeding pen until he can achieve hibernation weight, but he misses his big sister.
A cub loses half its foot; a shy cub takes on a greedy cub; predators threaten the moose calves.
Angelika and Peter release two coastal bears; Kim attempts to rescue some black bear cubs.
The team scrambles to re-capture an escaped bear; a new volunteer worries about a tiny cub.
Volunteers attempt to save three vulnerable moose calves; two cubs battle through a release.
A yearling escapes from the shelter while Tanja is out on a remote release.
The three rowdiest yearlings must be trapped; a second moose calf arrives with injuries identical to the one that just passed.
A bear with half a foot, must prove she can survive in the wild; Tanja tries to catch a cornered bear.
Sophie is released, while another bear arrives with the same symptoms; a fawn with two broken legs struggles to walk again.
Digger must learn to climb before he can be released; an injured elk calf lands himself in solitary.
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.
A runt cub is so terrified of the bigger cubs that he is not eating; a local arborist is recruited to rescue orphaned cubs stuck in a tree.
Major surgery is needed to fix a cub's leg; a cub must make friends before going into hibernation.