A Lily Fan captured this 9 ½ minute video of Holly back at work on her foot pads. A little after the 2:24 mark she momentarily shows her progress on a paw. 
Lynn and Gerry
at Grandfather Mountain - 10/15/93The white area is the new foot pad that she revealed by chewing off the old black calloused foot pad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x9R3v6jxhQ
An article about foot pad removal is at Rogers, L. L. 1974. Shedding of foot pads by black bears during denning. Journal of Mammalogy 55(3):672-674. Click on the title to see the whole paper.
A Lily Fan also captured this 2 ½ minute video of 5 red squirrels burrowing through the snow to find sunflower seed hearts that fell from Manny’s bowl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX3a9bt517w&feature=youtu.be
At the Bear Center, we learned we’ll have to wait until fall to redo the bear den in the Cub Room. The people we need to do the work are booked solid until then. On progress, we learned the taxidermy birds for the Camping Exhibit will be arriving soon.
Also, the beautiful woodwork for the lower walls of the Bear Center will soon start arriving for installation which will expand our existing exhibit space. Meanwhile, Judy McClure and I are developing the new fur exhibit for the Ecology Hall. We ourselves are learning about the fur of over 20 species in order to write a bit about each piece we will have on display. They will be offered at kid level to touch, learn and compare the feel of the different animals that are in the 4-season exhibit. We’re taking a chance with it. Most museums only bring out their fur samples when a volunteer is there to show it and supervise. They will be attached to the wood and unattended. We’ll see how that works. We need more Bear Educators.
A Lily Fan also sent a picture of me with 4-year-old Gerry taken by Hugh Morton on October 15, 1993 at Grandfather Mountain where she still lives. She will turn 28 in January.
We’re still getting the word out. We got a Christmas card from an Ely friend who now lives in China saying she just viewed one of the documentaries there on TV and I was talking in Chinese.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center