Foraging big time

Foraging big time

July 20, 2010 – 9:27 PM CDT

Lily and Hope are foraging big time.  Little Hope’s scat collected yesterday was mostly blueberries and raspberries and a little red osier dogwood, alder-leaf buckthorn, and wild sarsaparilla.  Lily’s contained wild sarsaparilla, blueberries and raspberries and a little alder-leafed buckthorn.  It also contained unknown vegetation. 

When feeding on berries, mothers and cubs usually forage apart to be most efficient.  They are in a roadless area that has forest and an old clearcut.  This clearcut is used so frequently by bears that we are trying to learn the exact history of it. (photo take July 16, 20100

The classroom outreach project is gathering steam under the guidance of Corelyn Senn and several teachers.

Thank you for all you are doing to help in so many ways, including to educate.

The countdown to the Lilypad Picnic continues.

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