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- The bear pens at Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter are crawling with a record 40 orphaned black bear cubs-climbing, wrestling, and rolling fuzz-balls-each distinct in looks and personality. Rescuing and caring for these cubs are the passion of Angelika Langen, the shelter's resident 'Mama Bear'. While Angelika handles the black bear cubs, her husband Peter runs the world's only grizzly rehab program. With the help of their son Michael, daughter Tanja, son-in-law Shawn, and a team of driven volunteers, they save sick and injured orphan cubs and build them up for hibernation. In the spring when the cubs re-emerge as big healthy yearlings, the family transports them to remote sites across British Columbia where they are released for their second chance at life in the wild. Bristling with drama, comedy, and irresistible cuteness, Wild Bear Rescue tracks the raising of these endearing cubs, from their dramatic rescues to their releases the following year.
- Chief Pilot AJ Decoste is flying up the Mackenzie Valley with Buffalo's newest Electra, XFC, for the first time. Mechanic Cory Dodd is along for the ride to do some training as a Flight Engineer. They try to make their deliveries before a storm rolls in but when they land in Norman Wells, they are faced with gale force winds. When their takeoff is delayed by two incoming planes, AJ is forced to shut down and wait out the storm in Norman Wells. Later, on their approach to Tulita, they face even stronger winds gusting over 40 knots. Over in Hay River, things go from bad to worse when a warm weather system brings the threat of a rare ice storm. Two daily skeds arrive from Yellowknife and the rampies have to batten down the DC-3s in preparation for a long, rough night-the worst storm in fifty years. And the newest rampie, CJ Asaf, just can't seem to fit in. Rampie Prefkar is tasked with training CJ on the Hay River delivery route, but Prefkar can't handle CJ or his attitude.
- When Buffalo's newest Electra, ZFE, lands in Yellowknife with only three functioning engines, mechanic Chuck Adams comes to the rescue to replace a brand-new $29,000 regulator on engine number three. It's been slow for the airline and delivering a load of building supplies to the RCMP up in Ulukhaktok, NWT, might help keep Buffalo in the air. Spurred by a recent crash landing and two engine fires, an audit team from Transport Canada descends on Buffalo Airways. With their long and tumultuous history with Joe, they demand that Buffalo appoint a new "Accountable Executive" within 72 hours, or risk being shut down. But Joe isn't about to hand over the keys to the kingdom-not even to Rod, his oldest son. Mikey worries that if they don't meet the deadline, Buffalo Airways could become Buffalo Spare Parts. Transport Canada isn't the only thing on Joe's mind; it's becoming apparent that Joe's 16-year-old rescue dog, Sophie, is on her last legs. One morning Joe finds Sophie lying under a plane, unable to stand up. Joe realizes that her time has come-he calls the vet.
- Buffalo Joe has been a captain on the daily sked for 34 years and his 70th birthday is next week. Joe might have to stop flying if he doesn't pass his medical and that could spell the end of Buffalo. Before Joe leaves to undergo five days of medical tests at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, he calls two rampies, Sam Storm and Jeff Tapper, into his office to greenlight their DC-3 check flights. Both Jeff and Sam have slogged away for eight months waiting for this chance. But on flight day, Sam is sick to his stomach from eating bad eggs the night before. Sam is not about to let a bad egg beat him and he helps Jeff prep DC-3, LFR. Just before takeoff, nausea wins-Sam has no choice but to back out and there's no telling when he'll get another chance. Jeff, on the other hand, has to overcome the jitters that have haunted him ever since he was in a crash landing earlier in the year. Mikey, Rod and his family prepare to greet Joe with a birthday cake shaped like a DC-3. At the last minute, Mikey gets a call that Joe isn't coming back today; instead he's decided to celebrate his own way-going for a ride in a classic 1940 Boeing Stearman biplane.
- Newly minted copilot Jeff Tapper is excited for his first revenue DC-3, but his inexperience shows when he botches the approach and bounces the landing three times, nearly running off the runway. Meanwhile, for new rampie Prefkar Mony to realize his dream of becoming a DC-3 pilot, he needs to first pass the written IATRA test. He's been studying for months, but on his first attempt, he fails. With the help of pilot/mechanic Chris Staples, Prefkar retakes the test and passes, but his victory celebration is short-lived when he's blamed for leaving an expensive shipment of medicine marked "Do Not Freeze" in a courier van during a minus 30 weekend. Later, Mikey and Katie decide to find Joe a new dog and choose Muffy, a three-year-old dog from the SPCA who is ready to leave her pups. They bring her back to the hangar for a test drive. Joe brings DC-3 CUE out of retirement to test fly the plane for Buffalo's summer sked duty and he brings along Jeff-and Muffy-to see if they're Buffalo material.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.