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eddings aren’t usually described as “gnarly,” but the word seems right for one ceremony on the scenic shores of Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park. Videographer Stanton Giles was filming the August nuptials when his camera was drawn from the groom’s promises of everlasting love to a dramatic commotion across the lake: A grizzly bear charged out of the bushes and tackled a moose calf while its mother looked on. Giles told that the

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