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Ursula Heads Out

Ursula Heads Out

August 24, 2010 – 9:36 PM CDT

Lily & Hope - August 16, 2010Yesterday, 5-year-old Ursula visited the field station.  She’s not a bear we can approach in the woods, so we took the opportunity to tie ribbons to her collar.  Good thing.  Tonight we watched our computer screen as her GPS locations moved further and further away from the field station.  She’s heading back to her territory.

Hope hamming it up - August 16, 2010The two pictures of Lily and Hope from a week ago show how Hope is growing.  We have yet to get her on a scale, but we’d estimate her weight around 50 pounds, which is a good healthy weight.  She and Lily are together and doing well.

It’s always interesting to see how males and females who were mates back in May or June react to each other later in the year.  The bond does carry over.  In addition to the examples in earlier updates, Braveheart (8) and One-eyed Jack (about 15), perennial mates, met up today and were feeding 6 feet apart calmly and comfortably.

With only a week to go before the Coca-Cola Favorite Park contest is over, Lily’s fans have given Bear Head Lake State Park perhaps an insurmountable lead of more than 540,000 votes over Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s 741,000 votes.

We are still waiting for word from the Ely Superintendent of Schools on how they would spend $500,000 from Kohl’s Care School contest.

Meanwhile, teachers in 14 states are working hard on the Education Outreach project.  Things are coming together faster than most people had anticipated.

Thank you again for your ongoing support of our research and educational outreach.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center


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