Sister Bear enjoys Christmas preparations, especially getting her list ready--but on Christmas morning she realizes what Christmas is really all about.
When Brother's class studies birds, the citizens of Bear Country end up choosing sides in a battle between environmentalists and those who want to cut down the trees in Birder's Woods to build houses.
The Bear Scouts work on their Scuba-diving Merit Badge, while trying to discover what is causing the pollution in Lake Grizzly that is making Old Jake, a very large catfish, sick.