Shadow’s Clan calendar
November 12, 2010 – 5:52 PM CST
No bear news today in this time between bears finding dens and the placement of the new Den Cams. With snow in the forecast, we scrambled to clean out the garage to make room for vehicles. All is in order. We’re ready. Bring it on!
The big event today was black-topping the remainder of the parking lot at the Bear Center. That is possible thanks to your purchases this past year. The need for more parking became evident this summer. With the main parking area now paved, we can mark out parking spaces and direct busses, etc., for more orderly parking. A big improvement. Thank you.
The research bear calendar is super. It has pictures of 31 research bears. Although the calendar is called “Shadow’s Clan,” it includes four big males that are members by association. Those are One-eyed Jack, Big Harry, beautiful brown Crackle (6), and Midnight—bears that mate with Shadows female descendents. Most of Shadow’s male descendents have gone elsewhere to mate. Descendents pictured are Lily and Hope, Lily’s brother Cal (3), Lily’s mother June (9), and several of Lily’s aunts and cousins: RC (11) and her cubs Bill, Doug, and Jim; Donna (10); Braveheart (8); Shylow (8); Juliet (7) and her cubs Sharon, Shirley, and Boy named Sue; Colleen (7); Sarah (1); Ursula (5); Bow (4); Jo (2); Jewel (1); Jordan (1); Ty (1); JJ (1); Summer (1); and Star (1). The cover is Shadow herself (20). To make sense of the names, we’re updating the family tree and including it with each Shadow’s Clan calendar.
We are lowering the shipping fees and will have them built into the online ordering process in a week, so you might want to hold off ordering unless you want something pronto.
On the voting to raise $20,000 for Ely’s Schools, you came through strong as other schools tried very hard to catch us. They haven’t. With less than 6 hours of voting to go, you have Ely in the lead 3,548 to 2,511. The second place school is predicting a win on their web site, and they did come up with 525 votes in the last 24 hours. But can they come up with a thousand more before midnight? We don’t think so. To make sure we win, vote at http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/2704/054/?refer=9880.01.1284979606.252382.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center