Lily - 02/21/07We found an old video that had been uploaded to YouTube of a den taken February 21, 2007, but we weren't sure what it was at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tSjHvGikh0 It’s 18 minutes long with the best part between 3 and 7 minutes into it. The video starts with little feet sticking up out of a bear’s fur. Watching more, at about 3 ½ minutes into it, a light-colored face pops up—Lily! It is June’s den. The den we visited many times to take video from the entrance like I’d like to do at Jewel’s den this winter if we don’t get a Den Cam.
June and Lily - 02/21/072007 was an exciting winter going to June’s den and getting video like we’d never gotten before. It was the first of our high definition video. We’d put the camera on the mound of dirt (snow-covered) outside the den and usually leave it running an hour or so and then bring it back and see what we got. Seeing little month-old Lily in this video was especially exciting now after all she has done. 
June - 08/13/12It was the first major education we did about bears in dens.
Somehow, video got on a TV station and others called to be part of it. Little Lily (not named yet, I believe), siblings (Cal and Bud) and her mother (6-year-old June) ended up as part of 9 TV programs that winter—a harbinger of the education Lily’s life would eventually signify. The video has nice close-ups of her face. I look forward to what Jewel and her cubs will show us in their den this winter.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center