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| Artsy Mom | May 21 2011, 05:28 PM Post #31 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update May 21, 2011 – 5:08 PM CDT Tension, Dot, and Protection  Faith - May 20, 2011 Tension continues between June and Lily as they try to use the same area. At this moment, they are about 120 yards apart as measured on Google Earth from their GPS locations. None of the locations are together, so they are keeping their distances. Juliet and her yearlings are still together as of 3 PM today. Juliet is foraging where Jo spent so much time in a 230 yard diameter area a couple weeks ago, and Jo is where we picked up Juliet’s collar a week or so ago. They might be deciding some things, too. Jo led her cub 1. 5 miles today. Lily and June traveled shorter distances with their cubs. Spring is typically the time we see boundaries tested and shifts in territories. A cute video taken yesterday of a persistent Faith is posted on YouTube.   Lily waits for Faith to come down from the white pine - May 20, 2011 Yesterday was Dot’s Day. Her full story would take a book. Dot and Donna were Blackheart’s first cubs back in 2000. They are the cubs sleeping and sitting on Lynn’s lap and getting weighed (Dot, “6 pounds”) by the den in “The Man Who Walks With Bears” on Animal Planet beginning in 2001. Dot had problems with Blackheart and Grandma Shadow as a yearling and ended up with a swollen forearm from a bite. She decided to leave their territories. At first, she settled just 3.25 miles away but now has expanded her range to 13 miles away. Dot and her first litter, in 2003, were the denned bears in the BBC’s "Wildlife On One" which used high-tech innovations to reveal the lives of newborn cubs in a den. Dot was good enough to lift her leg when Lynn placed a tiny infra-red camera underneath her with the cubs. Yet she lunged out of the den when someone approached she didn’t recognize. She has never hurt anyone. There is much to tell about her travels, and we hope to put it all together for a book chapter when we can.  a busy Faith - May 20, 2011 Dot is one of the bears that makes us work so hard for protection. She is 11 years old and her history makes her invaluable as she puts on the years. She’s had 10 cubs and was supposed to have a litter this year. Glenn and Nancy, who know her best, say her nipples are not swollen and she is moving fast and far, so she apparently skipped this year like Donna did last year. Mating season is about to start, and her travels may be an indication of estrus. We’ll see how males respond to her in the next couple weeks. She is one of the bears that adores One-eyed Jack, and he has a habit of tracking her down during mating season. We got this email from Representative Phyllis Kahn who is an ally of the research bears. As you saw in her testimony at the legislature, she sees the value of the science, the education, and the economics to Minnesota from these bears and is doing her best to protect the study. She wrote, “Yesterday, the omnibus game and fish bill (SF 943) passed off the House floor with my amendment giving moderate protection to radio collared bears. The will now go to conference committee. Please urge the members of the committee, Governor Dayton, and the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources to support this language in the final bill. Members of the conference committee are: Representatives: Hackbarth, Tom (R) 651-296-2439 rep.tom.hackbarth@house.mn Buesgens, Mark (R) 651-296-5185 rep.mark.buesgens@house.mn Drazkowski, Steve (R) 651-296-2273 rep.steve.drazkowski@house.mn McNamara, Denny (R) 651-296-3135 rep.denny.mcnamara@house.mn Dill, David (DFL) 651-296-2190 rep.david.dill@house.mn Senators: Ingebrigtsen, Bill (R) 651-297-8063 sen.bill.ingebrigtsen@senate.mn Carlson, John (R) 651-296-4913 sen.john.carlson@senate.mn Gazelka, Paul E. (R) 651-296-4875 sen.paul.gazelka@senate.mn Skoe, Rod (DFL) 651-296-4196 sen.rod.skoe@senate.mn Hall, Dan D. (R) 651-296-5975 sen.dan.hall@senate.mn Gov Mark Dayton 651-201-3400 Mark.Dayton@state.mn.us Tom Landwehr 651-259-5022 Tom.Landwehr@state.mn.us DNR Commissioner” From our perspective here at the Research Center, a word of support from Commissioner Landwehr or Governor Dayton would probably assure that the amendment survives this committee. We’ll see if the power of Team Protect, Lily’s army, and T. R.’s blogs can make a difference by emailing and calling the members of the conference committee above. Also, T. R.’s Facebook for registering your comments to protect the research bears is at Protect Minnesotas Research Bears. T. R. will bring your comments to the officials. Calls, letters, and emails from Minnesota residents to their state representatives and state senators are needed. To find your local legislators, here is a legislator finder . If you haven’t already signed the petition to make the black bear Minnesota’s state mammal, the petition is here. There is fierce competition for the top spots to win support for the International Wolf Center at Chase Community Giving. You are keeping us in the big money ($100,000) in 10th place, 500 votes ahead of 11th place. It is scary to think where we will get enough votes to stay in the money. Each person can vote only once. There are only 4 days to go. Voting ends May 25. Spread the word! Thank you for all you are doing toward protection. Thank you so much. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center PS: As of this moment (5:06 PM CT), June has moved a quarter mile away from Lily, Hope, and Faith. We’ll see in the future what this means in terms of territory ownership. |
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| jillers | May 21 2011, 07:08 PM Post #32 |
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This is a story which is perfectly logical to all males: A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6." A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why on earth did you buy 6 cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had eggs." |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2011, 07:27 PM Post #33 |
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A late check in!! Michelle - Loved the promo and the adorable eaglet photo!  Kris - Prayers that you will be uplifted  Just a thought! It seems like your DHis not getting better care there as you hoped and the difficulties to find housing, and the fact that you still have much packed, Could that be a sign to get back on the boat and return to Cal and be near your DD and family so they could be helpful to you? and maybe the medication your DH didn't want to take would help him! This is just an old grandmother speaking! Sometimes we have "tunnel vision" and need to think "outside the box" from the vein we are thinking in!  Sometimes we havean idea that doesn't turn out as hoped! The countryside photos are beautiful! Topa - How terrific to be in Maui!  Hope it is enjoyable and restful!Jill - I tried quiling one time. That was enough for me!  Beautiful job and lovelyreason, to help a child! Penny - Cute graphic ! So cruel to take the yorkies from that family!  Deb - I will be "haunted" by your green spuds! Bette - Carole - You'll be exhausted by the time Eagleland ends!  You'll need to goto Maui! Penny - that goes for you too with all the bear updates!11:30PM here 
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| Michele | May 21 2011, 09:57 PM Post #34 |
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Sunny, I think your observations are spot on.....perhaps you think of yourself as "just a grandmother", but I think you are very wise, are speaking from experience, and know the lay of the land, so to speak.  
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| Michele | May 21 2011, 10:09 PM Post #35 |
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Penny, once again, I can't thank you enough for keeping my curiosity satisfied with your updates of Lily, Hope and Faith.....and for providing the links to Thursday's rescue of Flyer of the Sydney Nest. You are just the bestest!!!
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| circlescribe | May 22 2011, 01:10 AM Post #36 |
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Carole, Michele, Sunny, thank you all for your comforting words. We had started feeling like we'd have stayed in California if we'd only known just how tough it would be here, but we spent so much getting here and can't imagine having the energy or funds to go back, but the biggest problem is that Ed's Green Card expires in a couple of weeks and he'd not be able to get back into the country unless he went before that! We've asked the immigration attorney who handled his immigration to the US 15 years ago, and reapplying from here is the only way once it expires, at great cost and an indefinite wait for a Visa number to become available. We couldn't even get the shippers to pick up our stuff in time, and we'd have to sell the car and other things we've bought since being here to not waste $$ we'd need, and then no where even to land except a Motel 6, having no family at all except Lori and her DH, and they have no room to put us up. This notice to move by the  landlord puts us in a terrible situation. Ed couldn't have renewed his GC before we moved due to time requirements, and it seems we're just stuck here now having to take whatever happens and make the best of it. The attorney said they'd likely turn him away at the airport on arrival if he tried to go back after it expired, and he'd have no place to go back to in the UK. It would just kill him. He feels so bad now to have brought me here only to have it be so damned hard, and we had no idea the medical system would have changed so much, and cause him to get worse. We'd had much higher hopes of it being a move for the better, and if we had a secure place to live and could get settled in it could be. We gambled a lot on things we didn't realize we'd encounter. If my mom hadn't mismanaged and squandered both family homes so horribly in just a few awful and recent years, including the one she had planned would go to me, there would have been more options long before we decided we had no choice but to move, and Henry Mancini's family wouldn't now own one that had been in the family for most of my life.  Sorry to blab on and spill my guts, but it's become a gut wrenching, terrifying and mind boggling situation, and I would have to abandon Ed if I wanted to go back now, and that's not an option. At least we've had some pleasure in the lovely surroundings and wildlife.
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| bette | May 22 2011, 07:21 AM Post #37 |
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Moved to Sunday's thread. 
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