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Chat - Wednesday August 4, 2010; Hi Everyone - Great Day Ahead!
Topic Started: Aug 4 2010, 04:47 AM (570 Views)
Artsy Mom
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Update August 4, 2010 - 10:06 PM CDT

Hope's Expanding Horizons


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Lily is expanding Hope's horizons, leading her to feeding areas in an area of over 5 square miles, including the square mile or so where Hope concentrated alone. Last evening we noticed from Lily's GPS readings that she was foraging along an old RR grade. We knew the chokecherry bushes in that area were loaded, so today we checked to see if we could find sign of feeding. We found plenty! Many of the branches had been broken down and stripped of cherries. In the middle of the RR grade we found a scat chock full of cherry pits that was likely Lily's. It also contained a few raspberry seeds (from bushes growing among the chokecherry trees) and ants. The scat contained 2602 chokecherry pits, representing 3.2 pounds of chokecherries, including the pits. We checked some data from 1989 when we walked with another mature female for 24 hours as she fed on blueberries and ants. During two 24-hour periods on July 29 and August 7, she deposited 16 and 11 scats per 24 hours, so it seems pretty safe to say Lily's scat is less than ten percent of her 24-hour consumption. That would make her potential consumption of chokecherries, including pits, over 30 pounds per day.

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We are thinking of how the Lily and Hope fans that couldn't come to the Lilypad Picnic held their own online party. We appreciate all of you so much! Now we see you're backing Bear Head Lake State Park, with includes parts of Lily's and Hope's territories, to receive a grant of $100,000. This is another way you have become a force for bears in addition to developing curriculum for classrooms, making donations, voting for the Chase Community Giving Grants, supporting the research and Bear Center in many ways, making Ely American's Coolest Small Town, spreading the truth about bears, and developing camaraderie among thousands of Lily and Hope supporters.

Thank you for all you do.

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