Continuing Work, and Another Look Back
Once again, we report on continuing work on the enclosures, and take a look back at recent history. Tim McNutt helped our curator pick up the posts from Menards in…
Once again, we report on continuing work on the enclosures, and take a look back at recent history. Tim McNutt helped our curator pick up the posts from Menards in…
Valentine’s Day brings to mind one of the most famous of ABR’s former residents, Hartley Bear, for whom our Hartley House is named. Hartley was from Kentucky, and came in…
The rain let up, so ABR got back to work. Even though it is Valentine’s Day, our curators were busy with enclosure maintenance and improvement. First, though, we did have…
The work is almost done in Enclosures #1 and #2, as you will see. And as a treat, we’ll share a look back at a cub from a few years…
The controlled burn of Wild Enclosures #1 and #2 was completed successfully. The final result was inspected by Spud Bear, in hard hat, at the conclusion of the burn. As…
The curators were able to get back to their job of burning Enclosures #1 and #2, and they had a labor-intensive time. We are sure that a shower will feel…
We have posted about what cubs do on rainy days, so now that we are just seeing curators for a while, we’ll see how they use a rainy day. Before…
As we have posted over the past few days, the curators have been busy with the controlled burn of Wild Enclosure #1. Today we have the next chapter, as the…
We have watched the lead-up to the controlled burn of Wild Enclosure #1. That included gathering flammable materials for the burn, and spreading those materials in the enclosure. Yesterday, the…
The preparation for burning the Wild Enclosures has begun. The first step was a trip to Home Depot to purchase bales of pine straw, They donated 25 bales, and thanks…