Not Much News
October 20, 2010 – 7:19 PM CDT
Braveheart, Lily, and Hope didn’t do much today. They each stayed in areas not larger than 35 yards in diameter. We worried a bit when we didn’t receive GPS locations on Braveheart for nearly 8 hours. We were relieved when they started up again in the same location as previous ones. She likely was sleeping soundly in a bad position for the GPS unit. At about 6:15 PM, Lily and Hope moved 65 yards toward the possible den we found yesterday. Then they stopped again. They have another 90 yards to go to that den, or 1.7 miles to go to the nice den on high ground.
We tried to find Donna the bear at her den but ran into too much water. We’ll try from another direction or wait until the water freezes.
The biggest news today was good sandwiches and cookies delivered to the Bear Center from you!
Is this the calm before the storm? Is something big about to happen?
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center