Cubs in Snow
It snowed pretty hard (for Tennessee) and we would have thought that the cubs in the Wild Enclosures would hunker down in one of the dens to get out of…
Cub #239 Arrives – Smallest Yet!
ABR received another eleven-month-old cub from just outside the national park. She is the smallest of all the recent cubs, weighing just 8.5 pounds. With such a low weight, and…
Snoozing Cubs
We have focused on the most recent arrivals in the latest posts, so this time we’ll share some photos of the cubs in Wild Enclosures. They are spending quite a…
“Second Wave” Cubs – Moving Day
Some of the “second wave,” smaller cubs have finished their medications and the curators judged that they were ready to be released into a Wild Enclosure. As they showed they…
2 Cubs Leave, 2 Cubs Arrive
Just last week, the 2 Louisiana cubs that have been at Appalachian Bear Rescue since March went back home. Louisiana wildlife officers performed a final workup and fitted them with ear transponders before…
Now we have 14!
In late September, a black bear sow was killed in a collision with a vehicle just inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, at the “Townsend Y.” She had 3 cubs, all…
2 More Cubs – Now there are 10!
On July 22nd, wildlife officers from Arkansas brought 2 female cubs to ABR, bringing the current population to 10! That’s a lot of hungry mouths to feed. You’ve heard the…
ABR featured in award-winning video
Kate Marshall’s award-wining documentary about American black bears, Season of the Bear, Volume II: Black Bear Cubs includes an interview with our curator, Lisa Stewart about Appalachian Bear Rescue.
And now there are five!
On April 27, TWRA officers brought a tiny cub, weighing less than 5 pounds, to ABR. This makes one more hungry cub we have to feed, along with the four…
Townsend, TN Spring Festival
On May 1st and 2nd, Appalachian Bear Rescue was represented at the Spring Festival/Old Timers’ Day in Townsend. The inclement weather resulted in fewer visitors than usual, but those who…