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| Chat - Wednesday April 20, 2011; One Year Later: BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill | |
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| circlescribe | Apr 20 2011, 02:00 PM Post #31 |
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That token fine for the Crane killers is a sickening outrage! What is the message they're sending to others who'd dare to do such a thing??    I'll go to that link and log my comments. Jeanne your NAC post was exquisite! Your artistic talents and heart really shone through!   I'm so sad about Jason. The past few days have I haven't had much chance to comment, but I woke in the night (as usual) last night with the pitiful picture of him looking so small and vulnerable in that image of him trying to climb the tree in one of the last updates posted, and with the thought of the bruises found on his little body, couldn't get his dear little image out of my mind. How could something not be done when they saw he was lagging behind and getting weaker? With so many people following Lily's family, and seeing how Hope's life was saved through compassionate intervention, it's all the more tragic he was just left to "let nature take it's course". What was learned by letting him die? Sorry to be so emotional but things like this can sometimes put me over my limit of tolerance.  Things are looking up on the car front at least. I now have a drivers' license so we can get mobile as soon as we can find an affordable car on Ebay.  Here's my contribution to the Animal Kodak Moments of the week. Komale the Gorilla at the Bristol Zoo with a baby Duck. Bristol's not that far from where we are and would be easy to get to when we get a car.  |
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| Naturegal | Apr 20 2011, 02:39 PM Post #32 |
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Me too
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| cdn-cdn | Apr 20 2011, 03:27 PM Post #33 |
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Me, three, Jill. Hi Kris. Congratulations on your drivers' permit. Good luck, hope you can get a car soon. What a sweet portrait of the gorilla with the duckling. Thanks for making your thoughts known to the prosecutor's office. |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 20 2011, 05:41 PM Post #34 |
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Me four...that was so beautiful of the annonymous postal worker especially when all we usually hear is how they go ballistic and do heinous damage to fellow co-workers Cheryl I will also add some comments to that link  Yay you got your UK driver's license Kris  That should make a big difference for both of you. What happened with your house? Is the owner complying with your plumbing requests?It's  tonight after a pretty great day. They had heavy wet  last night in Minneapolis it doesn't come north. It's 5C/41F going down to -3C overnight, so hopefully not.
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 20 2011, 06:09 PM Post #35 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update April 20, 2011 – 7:02 PM CDT Great day out  Faith peeking It takes bears to make a truly great day, and today we had bears! Happy bears and happy bear researchers. We were happy to see Lily, Hope, and Faith doing so well. We had to go out and change Lily’s GPS batteries. They were still the same spot by the white pine. Lily was same as ever. She let us do our work, including taking a heart rate (80) and checking for good swelling of the mammaries. Hope was a sweetheart. We couldn’t see Faith at first. Then we found her sleeping behind the white pine. When she woke up, we found her to be an energetic and playful cub.  Hope She made us rethink some of the rough play we mentioned in recent updates. If play with Hope was all that harmful, we’d think Faith would avoid her. She seeks her out. She follows Hope. She initiates play. They spar with open jaws. When she stands up, Hope lets her push her onto her back and climb up on her chest to go face to face with the jawing. We watched a lot of play. It was nothing but gentle. Faith looks so vulnerable with big Hope and Lily, but she is safe. They carefully step over her and always seem to know where she is. She climbs up on their backs. We can’t wait to post the video Sue took. She got some good scenes. Please check for recently uploaded ‘bearstudy’ videos on YouTube. Lily, Hope and Faith today (5:26) Faith is at an extremely cute stage. The picture of her peeking around the big white pine is precious, and it turned out very sharp on our little point and shoot. Wolf tracks came within 45 yards of the bears, but there was no sign that the wolves bothered them. Behind the scenes, the Den-watch Team is going over their records and we are looking at corresponding video archives to see what happened in the days and weeks before Jason died. We are also looking at pictures taken on April 8, 11, and 12. Just trying to make some sense of it all.   biggerMary and Rhonda at the MN State Capital Rhonda Hennis flew up from North Carolina to go to the capitol (picture) with Mary Auldrich and hand deliver letters about protection to the governor and commissioner, among others. None saw them, but Rhonda and Mary spent time with a governor’s aid. Rhonda visited Dana Coleman’s first grade class where WCCO-TV News filmed the students studying bears. The story will be aired in May and is about the values of the bear research and the need for protection. It should help show that the research bears belong to all Minnesotans, including students and all the people who want to learn from them. Team Bear found another opportunity to show what we can do for Ely. It’s Chase Community Giving that you pulled off amazing victories last summer for the Bear Center and the Research. We’re not eligible because we won last year and because we don’t have an operating budget anywhere near the minimum million dollars that is part of the new rules. Operating budgets now have to be between one and ten million, and we don’t know any bear organization with that kind of budget. But there is one organization in Ely that is eligible, and this is a good opportunity to pay them back for what they have done for the Bear Center. It’s the International Wolf Center that has always stood ready to help us. They helped us get started. Their founders are two of our biggest donors. We each believe that the stronger the other is, the more it helps both attract people to Ely to learn about bears and wolves, both of which share a long history of misunderstanding and persecution. The chairman of their board is on our advisory board, and our chairman is on their advisory board. They helped us create our Bears Versus Wolves exhibit, and Lynn provides wolf photos for their International Wolf Magazine. Their founder Dr. L. David Mech (Dr. Wolf) was Lynn’s best man 31 years ago. Together, the two organizations obtained a joint grant for advertising this year. We’re hoping that between us Lily fans and the Wolf Center’s followers, we all can obtain a grant for them. We know they would do the same in return. They do a great job as you can see when you’re here for the Lilypad Picnic. Speaking of the picnic, the more names we learn, the more we look forward to putting faces with them at the picnic. In the Readers Digest contest, you still have Ely solidly in the money in sixth place. To vote 10 times in a row each day, the link is here. Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center Edited by Artsy Mom, Apr 20 2011, 06:12 PM.
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| lmorton2001 | Apr 20 2011, 06:29 PM Post #36 |
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So happy to see the photos and video of Lily, Hope and Faith! They are all adorable! I watch these bears in Minnesota, and I have a hard time reconciling in my mind the differences between them and the bears here. I want to think it is just the attitude of people, but I wonder. We have a good number of bears here, and it seems any time they come near humans, it means trouble for the bears. People are afraid of them, and sometimes it seems justified. If they wander into the city (and they do - the edge of the city is next to their habitat) it is because they are looking for food that humans have left out - garbage, pet food, bird feeders, etc. When bears wander into the city, if they can be located by the authorities, they are tranquilized, tagged, and relocated far away. If they find a bear that has previously wandered into human habitat, it is often killed, for fear it will keep coming back. There are instances (there was one last summer) where bears break into tents of sleeping people looking for food. They say the bears are attracted to even the scent of gum or lip gloss. Anyway, last summer the woman in the tent was badly injured, and the bear took her little dog and killed it. But most of the bears in Lily's clan seem to be relatively calm and accepting of humans. I really want to think the bears aren't harmful, but the evidence here often points otherwise. |
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| lmorton2001 | Apr 20 2011, 06:46 PM Post #37 |
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I posted my comment online about the creeps that got such a light "sentence" for killing the whooping crane. Grrrrrr... Kris, I'm happy that you got your driver's license. Hope you can get a car soon and become a bit more mobile. Did your landlord decide to renew your lease? I keep you and Ed in my prayers. I wish that he could get some relief. I'm sorry that you are so far away for Lori - that has to be hard for both of you.  I love the picture of the gorilla and the duck!
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