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| Chat - Thursday, April 28, 2011; Thinking of the Norfolk Triplets | |
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| cdn-cdn | Apr 28 2011, 06:13 PM Post #31 |
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| cdn-cdn | Apr 28 2011, 06:23 PM Post #32 |
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Thank you, Sunny. I'm glad you liked the presentation. I'm getting up at 4 am, can hardly wait and may not sleep at all. Enjoy, Sunny, and all who will be watching! |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 28 2011, 06:43 PM Post #33 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update April 28, 2011 – 5:12 PM CDT Walking hibernation  some lakes are ice-free Lily and family are still in the area where we visited them yesterday. Jo and her cub are still in the 230-yard diameter area where they have been since April 15. Snow is down to patches again after the big melt today with temperatures reaching the upper 50’s today. We’ll see if Lily and family resume wider movements and if Jo begins wider movements soon. The bear with yearlings we mentioned two days ago as being a mile and a half from the den showed us how mothers with yearlings can travel. She reversed direction since the 25th and today was 7 miles from her location of that day, 5.5 miles from her den. She was wary and nervous, keyed up about any sound. We tried to get a new collar with a GPS unit on her but a distant vehicle crunched gravel, making her hurry in that direction. Then there was more crunching and she loped toward one of her secure places a quarter mile away with the yearlings running along behind. We’ll catch her in a calmer mood. June, on the other hand is still fairly close to her den.   male hazelnut catkins We think of walking hibernation ending and full metabolic rate returning by the time of spring green-up when bears have fuel for growth and movement all over the forest. Mothers with new cubs don’t move as widely, of course. Green-up is usually about May 1 around here. It behooves bears to be ready to take advantage of that metabolically. Hibernation studies show walking hibernation to last 2-3 weeks, which is about as long as the time between emergence and green-up. Our past radio-tracking showed a surge in movement coinciding with green-up. Green-up may be delayed this year because of the cold spell and late snow making it harder for the ground to thaw. Ice is melting fast on the lakes. We’re down to a few inches of unsafe ice on the lakes that still have it. The NABC pond cam is back up. We will have it back on bear.org soon, but until then it can be accessed via Ustream. We are contemplating additional changes to the pond cam. Stay tuned. We’ve been talking about diversionary feeding as a tool for coexistence based on the success of it where it has been studied. Two international bear conferences have asked us to talk about it. Sylvia Dolson of Bearsmart in British Columbia picked up on one of our abstracts and wrote about it as a discussion starter In the Readers Digest contest to win money for Ely, we have 536,684 votes, just 871 votes out of 5th place. The link to vote 10 times in a row each day through May 16 is here . In the Chase contest to win money for the International Wolf Center, we are solidly in 3rd place. This is the contest where we can vote only once through May 4. To vote, go to this link and click “Like.” Then go to this link and register your vote for the International Wolf Center. Dana Coleman’s first grade class initiated a petition to have the American black bear named Minnesota’s state mammal. This is an amazing opportunity for students across Minnesota to learn about their state government. This is the link to the class's petition. Lynn was the 13th person to sign this petition. We hope that doesn’t jinx it. Thank you for all you are doing. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 28 2011, 06:57 PM Post #34 |
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News says 294 people have died from the tornadoes and they are sure more will be found  Candles for all those who were lost    and for those who were hurt, over 1700 in Alabama alone.... Angels Among Us (4:06) |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 28 2011, 07:15 PM Post #35 |
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Cheryl your NAC posts today were just so stunning and apropos. You did a fantastic job on those  Mia is simply gorgeous...I  her pink blingy collar  Thanks for all the concern for DH. He is fine, the rear car bumper may need to be replaced though. It's going in next Wednesday to be inspected. License plate is all bent and hanging too. What a ridiculous accident...that driver must have been drunk or high and maybe it was even a stolen car. Too bad the lane was there for him to make good his escape  Yay for the Hornby's  Another  some happy news after all the awful  news of the last few days |
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| Artsy Mom | Apr 28 2011, 07:20 PM Post #36 |
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I had too many emoticons so I had to split my last post into two  Kris I was so hoping you had found a new place. Interesting about the fake crop circles. Wouldn't it have been fun to see who was doing that Regarding your  landlord...is there someplace to 'out' him? I'm thinking once you are out of there you should make it known so that any others looking at his property will know just what a bad landlord he is. The agency should have warned you too  Haven't had time to view your latest slideshow yet Ozzie. Looks like you are having the most fabulous holiday. Thanks for showing us all the exotic fruits, fish and fauna  Nice pics of your whirlwind trip to CA Deb. The mission at Capistrano looks so beautiful and the Wayfarers Chapel is gorgeous. Lucky you were able to organize your whole trip and see some very special Cruzers and :soar: too. Awesome Carole I am sure your trip to NYC will be a very emotional one for you, Alan and all the members of your family. We will be thinking of you as you mourn for Morty. Our sincere condolences to everyone. 
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