Holly found the twine from the straw bale and thoroughly checked it out in her straw pile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnA5IiWtBj8
A Lily Fan noticed the distinctive markings like a mustache and goatee on Frankie’s face and pointed them out in his picture.
The big news is that the North American Bear Center calendar for 2016 is beautiful! I saw a proof of it today and was blown away by Jim Stroner’s photography of Ted, Honey, Lucky, and Holly. Every month features a super picture of one of them with amazing clarity, lighting, and eyes. Ted’s picture on the cover is an example. Inside, in addition to the 12 big pictures, there are dozens more smaller ones showing the bears in action. Our graphic designer went all-out putting this together while being distracted by other jobs we had to throw at her. She says we should have them by mid-December to ship out quickly.
Christmas shopping is upon us. To have part of your purchase price go to the North American Bear Center, iGive shows how to do that at http://www.bear.org/website/how-to-help/igive.html
and Amazon has instructions for doing that through Amazon Smile. https://smile.amazon.com/about/ref=smi_ge_ul_lm_raas
A Lily Fan caught an error in last night’s update. Heidi has not been with us since 2001.It should have said 2011.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center