Object
Glacier Park bears (anecdotal wildlife)
Offscreen bears invoked in an Oval Office anecdote about Glacier Park (S01E08). The dialogue uses bear imagery to humanize a policy conversation; the animals are never shown. Source materials/annotations disagree on species (labels appear as both grizzly/Ursus arctos and black bear/Ursus americanus). Consolidated description preserves the narrative function and notes species ambiguity rather than asserting a single species.
2 appearances
Purpose
Natural wildlife occupying Glacier Park whose presence shapes human behavior in the anecdote—provoking precautionary singing and serving as a conversational catalyst toward park protection.
Significance
Functions as a humanizing device that lightens late-night deliberation, underscores the emotional and cultural value of public lands, and helps pivot the conversation toward using the Antiquities Act to preserve Big Sky; the bears catalyze character warmth and moral framing rather than driving plot action directly.
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