Are you ready for #FatBearWeek, where Katmai’s beefiest bruins flaunt their fluff, vying for glory as if they’re the wobbliest, blue-ribbon-winning Jell-O mold at a Midwest state fair? One of the biggest questions we get during this week is, “How do you weigh the bears?” We get asked a lot of things, but this one is pretty big. Pun definitely intended. So, how do you weigh the bears? The answer is: once. Just kidding! We could try getting a bear to sit nicely on a scale or just ask them flat-out what they weigh (rude), but good luck finding volunteers for that job. Before you raise your hand saying it’s your destiny, think it over. Who really wants to lug a giant doctor’s scale—one that no one really knows how to use—into the Alaskan wilderness and politely ask a 600-pound grizzly to step on it… before it steps on you? Huh? Anyone? Wow, so many hands are still raised. Let’s go deeper. In the past, terrestrial LiDAR scanning has been used to calculate estimated volumes of some of the...