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03/24/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 24, 2025- Work Continues 🔨🛠️

Weather: 64F(18C) Humidity 34%, Cloudy ☁️

Curator Tom extends his gratitude to our many friends who sent him birthday greetings yesterday. He read every comment and was deeply touched. We hope he realizes how much people value him and how important he is to ABR.😊

Yesterday was also World Bear Day, and ABR was delighted to be invited to participate at Zoo Knoxville. This year's focus was on a bear's acute sense of smell and how the public can be "BearWise" to minimize bear-human conflict. Our volunteers had a great time answering questions and noted that our preserved bear p**p samples were the most popular exhibits among human yearlings.🤔

The curators continued to work on the enclosures today, aiming to complete most of the chores so they can begin distributing grass seed. We need the ground cover to slow soil erosion, as we are located on hilly terrain, and to provide future cub residents with a natural carpet under their paws. You may recall that we tried laying sod last season, but the cubs rolled it up as if it were a rug.🐻

Today, we are offering a fourteen-minute video from 2017, featuring Otto, Rollo, and Apollo Bear, also known as "The Cheery-O's." It’s a brief record of their stay at ABR and their successful return to the wild. Injured and orphaned cubs and yearlings depend on us for a second chance at life in the wild, and we depend on your generosity to provide it. Thank you for your unwavering support.🐻🐻🐻❤️ Please click on the link below.
https://youtu.be/PZjtlUwYi8w?si=UirzDznfgqKQatYn

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/23/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 23, 2025-Happy Birthday, Curator Tom! 🎂

Weather 79F (26C) Humidity 23%, Partly cloudy 🌤️

Tom Faulkner is one of the key individuals responsible for the creation of Appalachian Bear Rescue. From its inception in 1989 to the admission of our first bear in 1996, Tom has been instrumental in the creation and success of our facility and our mission. He has served in many capacities, from founder to board member to curator. If there is anything he can't do, we don't know what it is. Happy birthday, Curator Tom!🎉😊

We’ve mentioned Marvin Bear many times over the years. He arrived at ABR on April 25, 2015, weighing 5.7 pounds (2.59 kg) and was released on November 9, 2015, weighing 97 pounds (44 kg). Marvin had enough quirks for a dozen cubs. He had a deep and abiding love for grapes, and at one point, refused to eat anything else, causing what is scientifically termed "finicky cub stress syndrome”( FCSS) in our curators. Although bear cubs are usually quiet to avoid attracting predators, Marvin showed us how loud a cub can be when protecting something dear to him – in his case, grapes. Marvin would be about ten years old now; we hope he’s had a good life since leaving ABR and has fathered many little quirky Marvins and Marvinas. Please click on the link below.🐻🍇
https://youtu.be/LbcNn5AwEv4?si=u9Ba4K16y2Pmdb9D

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/22/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 22, 2025-Plumbing 🐻🚰

Weather: 70F (21C) Humidity 24%, Sunny 🌞

Our curators are currently replacing the plumbing in Enclosures #1 and #2, which supplies the new cubby pools. The pipes will be buried, and the nozzles feeding water into the pools will not be as easily accessible to future residents. However, we are well aware that cubs have paws built for digging and a curiosity as strong as their muscles, so we aren’t betting against them.

We can’t recall how many of our former residents thought they had a gift for plumbing. None of them did, though. However, a lack of talent has never stopped anyone from pursuing a career, and we issue a warning not to hire any ABR alumnus claiming to be a qualified plumber, electrician, camera technician, or drywall installer. Do not let them in!

Today marks Cubby Birthday, an occasion we celebrate every month. ABR has designated January 22 as the "official" birthdate for all bears who arrive here, as it falls roughly midway in the range of possible birthdates. Happy two-month birthday to the Class of 2025, and happy birthday to all our former residents and to bears everywhere! While we celebrate Cubby Birthday, we also remember those who didn’t make it; we hold their memory close to our hearts. Thank you for helping us help them.🐻🎂

Here is a link to a video we post annually. It is an excerpt from a BBC special showing a mother bear and her two cubs leaving their tree den. Both cubs in the video survive their descent, but it highlights how vulnerable young cubs are and why many do not live to become yearlings. Although the video was filmed in Alaska, our local bear population also loves to den in trees. In a few weeks, this scene will be played out all over Tennessee as a new generation of bears emerges to greet the world for the first time. We wish them luck.❤️

https://youtu.be/1bAd0UZh9rU?si=b2djBeMYBUaEbMLf

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/21/2025

ON THIS DAY IN ABR HISTORY – 03/21/2025

Six years ago, on March 21st 2019, Appalachian Bear Rescue took in a malnourished female yearling from Blount County, Tennessee. Nicknamed “Sweetie Bear”, this yearling was the 285th black bear to pass through ABR’s facility gates. She was approximately 14 months old at the time but weighed just 9.79 pounds. Sweetie was captured by the Townsend Chief of Police and taken immediately to UTCVM for an intake exam. Veterinarians placed her on a controlled diet to avoid refeeding syndrome, a life-threatening complication that can occur when starving individuals are given too much food, too fast.

By April 12th, she was released into wild enclosure 3 where she joined Hartley Bear. Hartley (whose story we covered on Valentine’s Day) was a little too sweet on Sweetie Bear (pun intended). In the end though, Sweetie enjoyed his presence and after Hartley was released back into the wild, she found new kinship with two more yearling bears; Daffodil and Iris. On August 26th 2019, Sweetie Bear was returned to the wild. Her teeth and fur were in excellent condition and she weighed 64 pounds. In a little over five months, Sweetie had gained 54 pounds and was in much better physical condition to begin hyperphagia in the wild. Sweetie shot out of her transport crate like a rocket, and she never looked back. 🐻❤
We hope that Sweetie Bear is still thriving.

03/19/2025

ABR Daily Update - March 19, 2025 - A New Pool for Wild Enclosure 2

Weather: 75F (24C) Humidity 19%, Partly Cloudy ⛅️

Today our curators installed a new cubby pool in wild enclosure 2. With the generous help of your Tractor Supply gift cards, ABR was able to purchase two of the five stock tanks that we will need for our planned renovations. If the weather cooperates, curators will be installing wild enclosure 1’s pool tomorrow.

Did you know that wild enclosure 2’s pool used to be a concrete pond? Past ABR curators learned that keeping the pond free of leaves and debris was even more of a challenge than it is today!

If you would like to help us purchase the three additional stock tanks that we will need for the bear facility, you can send us a TSC e-gift card by visiting this link: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/egift-card?cm_sp=Espot-_-Gift+Card+LP-_-eGift+Card&fbclid=IwY2xjawJBh_hleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcNUFlZ3mkmNA8QMjdq-RC4Yz_Srv9xHiuI3NhKgu9l-1VzLbbfnUqjM1Q_aem_R5ZYcyjQ93s1yPlOuGG-MQ

Please send the gift card to [email protected]. We couldn’t do all of this without you. Thank you. 😊

03/18/2025

March 18, 2025: The ABR Recovery Center

The ABR Recovery Center is the oldest permanent structure at the bear facility. It was constructed in 1996, primarily by Americorps volunteers and ABR volunteers. It was built as a storage building that might also be used to house very small or injured cubs.

If buildings could talk, the ABR Recovery Center would have plenty of stories to tell...the escape of Houdini Bear, a long night for Deacon Bear, years of storing ABR "stuff", and multiple renovations that turned it into a facility used primarily for injured young bears. We hope you enjoy this video introduction to a building that has become a very important part of our ABR mission.

03/17/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 17, 2025 ☘️- A Letter from Barkstall Elementary School 🐻

Weather: 50F (10C) Humidity 48%, Mostly cloudy 🌥️

Receiving a message from Ms. Prescott and her Grade 5 students is always a source of joy for everyone at ABR, one we want to share with you. We’re grateful to them for their kindness and support. ❤️👏

Dear ABR Family,

We are excited to share that we raised $304.81 during our "Have a Heart and Save a Black Bear Cub" fundraiser on Valentine's Day. This brings our total amount raised so far to $681.81. In addition, we have collected 25 gallons of can tabs. As you can see, we are very close to our end of the year goal of $800.00. We will continue to work hard to reach our goal and of course collect can tabs. We would like to thank our ABR family for sending us can tabs from all over the United States including, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Kentucky, and of course Illinois! We hope you enjoy these pictures of our students fundraising for ABR and the posters they made to put up in the hallways around our school.

We appreciate it and plan to reach our goal by the end of May.

Thank you all BEARY much for your support!🐻❤️

Ms. Prescott's 5th Grade Class
Barkstall Elementary School
2201 Hallbeck Drive
Champaign, IL 61822

In 2017, while former ABR curator Coy Blair was conducting a GPS collar study focused on our released former residents, Jessica Giacomini, a then University of Tennessee graduate student, was also conducting a GPS collar study, but hers centered on adult bears. Please click the link below to view the original post and pictures from St. Patrick’s Day, 2017. The cubs in the photos depict what black bear cubs in the wild look like around this time: their eyes are open, but they remain entirely dependent on their mother for survival.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1518914394787814&type=3

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/16/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 16, 2025-Lunch is Served 🐦🪱

Weather: 74F (23C) Humidity 36%, Partly cloudy. 🌤️

The soil in our Wild Enclosures has been burned, tilled, and tilled once more. With the addition of ample rain, we’ve essentially laid out a banquet for our furry and feathered neighbors. Worms and other squirmy creatures emerge to the surface, attracting robins, wrens, and a variety of winged visitors. Our squirrel population finds excavating the soil effortless (the curators did most of the work for them!) and eagerly helps itself to acorns and peanuts overlooked by our bears or stashed away by the squirrels themselves last year. Everyone gets to eat as much as they like, and the cubs foot the bill—though they’ve never actually paid it. Ever.🐻🤔

Today, we shine the spotlight on Little Trouble Bear. She arrived at ABR on June 21, 2022, weighing just 15.2 pounds (6.89 kg), and was returned to the wild on January 12, 2023, at a robust 105 pounds (47.63 kg). But behind those dry numbers lies a tale of drama and resilience. Little Trouble made headlines when she got her head stuck in a plastic jug. Many doubted she could be captured, and without human intervention, she would not have survived. Rescuing a little bear is no easy feat—even when it’s for their own good, they often resist. It took a dedicated team tracking her for days to finally save her, but saved she was. We’re immensely grateful to those who made it possible and to you for giving Little Trouble a second chance. We hope she’s doing well and thriving in the wild. Please click on the link for the video of Little Trouble’s story. ❤️🐻🫙

https://www.facebook.com/AppalachianBearRescue/videos/769225057868603

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/15/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 15, 2025-Terminator Bots 🤖

Weather: 77F (25C) Humidity 51%, Cloudy ☁️

As you know, we hope to expand Wild Enclosures #1 and #2 this year. To prepare for the fence construction, a machine that looked like it had just rolled out of a *Terminator* movie arrived to clear the perimeter of the extensions. The machine made quick work of everything in its path, regardless of the challenging, hilly terrain…and we didn’t have to call Arnie to turn it off. 🦾

Meanwhile, the curators have been busy installing the rails that will support the decking for the new resting platforms. They’re making steady progress and hope to have the platforms ready soon.

The firehose hammocks, so beloved by our former residents, have been removed. These hammocks were extremely heavy—it took all of our curators working together to lift just one. The rubber interior hose not only added significant weight but also retained water and debris. However, after some research, the team discovered they could separate the Kevlar exterior from the rubber hose interior. This innovation drastically reduces the weight and eliminates the risk of water retention. The durable Kevlar exterior can now be more easily woven into hammocks that are strong enough to support playful cubs yet lightweight enough for the curators to clean or remove them. Live and learn!🤔

Today, we remember Heather Bear, who arrived at ABR on August 3, 2022. She was a yearling, nearly eighteen months old, and weighed 52.91 pounds (24 kg). Likely separated from her mother in June, Heather, like many yearlings, was struggling to adjust. She arrived with multiple wounds and abscesses, likely from a recent encounter with another animal. Heather pulled through, but just when we thought all was well, she developed an abscess on her snout. A trip to the veterinarian ensured she was healthy, and she was released on January 9, 2023, weighing an impressive 151 pounds (68.49 kg)—an excellent weight for a nearly two-year-old bear. Thanks to your kindness, Heather was saved, and we hope she’s thriving in the forest today.🐻❤️Please click on the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/AppalachianBearRescue/videos/616652670220609

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/13/2025

March 13, 2025: Platforms and Pools

This week our team has worked to rebuild the platform infrastructures in Enclosures 1 and 2. The structures are complete in Enclosure 1. The structures at the lower end of Enclosure 2 are built. Tomorrow morning, we will finish the structures at the upper end of Enclosure 2. With the structures built (and tested by Curator Seth), we will move on to adding the cypress planks on top. Then, the platforms will be ready for bears.

When the platform project is complete, we will move on to replacing all the cubby pools. The pools we have now have been in service for a minimum of 10 years. We are going to take this opportunity to completely replace them. The current pools are 700 gallon stock tanks that are 8 feet in diameter. We've done a bunch of research and travelled to see our options. We will replace the old pools with 625 gallon stock tanks from Tractor Supply. The new stock tanks are also 8 feet in diameter. They are slightly shallower than the old pools, but will be perfect for cubby purposes.

Each pool is $499.99. We need to purchase five of them. You can help us with the cubby pool replacement project by sending us e-gift cards from Tractor Supply. We tested the process, and it seems simple and straight-forward. Send the gift cards to [email protected]. We will turn the gift cards into Cubby Pools and get them installed and ready for bears.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/egift-card?cm_sp=Espot-_-Gift%20Card%20LP-_-eGift%20Card

Please email us at [email protected] and let us know if you purchase an e-gift card. We want to send you a proper thank-you! Tractor Supply may not let us know who sends the cards.

We are very grateful for your support as we continue to renovate our bear facility. We couldn't do our work for bears without YOU!

03/12/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 12, 2025- Bears Big and Small

Weather: 74F (23C) Humidity 22%, Sunny 🌞

It’s another warm, sunny day at the ABR facility and that means more platform work for our curators! With the new platform posts in position, curators used an expandable post anchor called Fast 2K to stabilize them. This alternative to concrete anchored the wild enclosure posts in just five minutes and saved our curators’ backs from hauling bags of concrete (they are very thankful). After the posts were secured, curators began working to put up the side planks of the resting platform. They took precise care at this step to ensure the structure was both level and safe for future furry residents. Greg and Seth even tested the strength of the platform so far, reporting that its durability is “rated for at least 2 Jellybean Bears worth of weight”. This is good news. 👏

On this day in ABR History an underweight yearling bear, “Tiny”, arrived weighing just 10 pounds at 14 months of age. This male yearling was unfortunately a victim of the famine year of 2011-2012. On May 12th 2012, Tiny was released back into the wild weighing 48 pounds. Thank you for helping us give bears big, and small, a second chance.

03/11/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 11, 2025-More posts 🪵

Weather: 75F (24C) Humidity 17%, Sunny 😎

It’s a warm day, and the curators are out in full force, lifting, carrying, and positioning posts in the Wild Enclosures. They aim to complete this phase of the project soon so they can begin constructing the platforms the posts will support. While normal facility maintenance is already physically demanding, the current complete rehabilitation of the wild enclosures has taken their effort to a new level. The curators are discovering muscles they didn’t know they had and a level of flexibility usually seen only in our resident bears. Despite the aches, pains, and occasional bruises, they approach their work with a sense of humor and purpose, knowing that everything they do is for the benefit of future cubs and yearlings.🐻

Last week, we shared a video of Bennie, Jerry, and Carrie engaged in one of their “formula wars.” Today’s video throwback from 2013 shows the siblings a little older but still displaying the same “this is mine, and yours is mine” attitude. Please click on the link below to watch.🐻🐻🐻

https://youtu.be/dVK5OAXTvFg?si=gghF2v0gEisMDL1M

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/10/2025

ABR Update-March 10, 2025-First Post 🪵

Weather: 62F (17C) Humidity 25%, Cloudy ☁️

Our curators are working to install new posts in the wild enclosures. Eventually, these posts will support resting platforms. While the platforms will be positioned near trees, they won’t be attached to them, minimizing stress on our naturally wooded enclosures.

We’re happy to share a short video recalling Skipper Bear, a yearling who arrived at ABR on February 6, 2016, weighing just 8 pounds (3.63 kg). He was found near Butterfly Gap Resort and was named Skipper after a species of butterfly native to the area. Skipper was another miracle bear; we didn’t think he’d survive the first night. However, with a carefully structured diet to prevent refeeding syndrome, Skipper made a remarkable recovery. He was released back into the wild on June 3, 2016, weighing 47 pounds—a healthy weight for a yearling released in the summer. This gave him ample time to gain weight before winter and hibernation.

Skipper was enrolled in our 2015-2016 GPS collar study, and we’re delighted to report that he thrived throughout the following year. We wish Skipper all the best in his continued journey in the wild! Please click on the link. There's no sound except at the end of the video. 🐻🦋
https://youtu.be/02vYCNBfrXc?si=9-8i9u-5QYtwWmRX

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

03/09/2025

March 9, 2025: The Hartley House

It's easy to assume that everyone knows about all the buildings, pens, and bears at Appalachian Bear Rescue. After posting a video of the making of the Cub House, we realized that you might enjoy knowing the history of some of the other buildings at ABR.

Hartley House was constructed in 2019. The ABR team spent several years planning the layout and location of a new "Cub House" built to service Enclosures 1 and 2. The Cub House (built in 2014-15) served as a model for what we would build. Fortunately, cubs and yearlings taught us valuable lessons about the Cub House. We incorporated the new knowledge into our plan for what would become Hartley House.

We started 2019 with no cubs onsite and broke ground on the new building in mid-January. Hartley Bear arrived at ABR on Valentine's Day - February 14, 2019. Hartley Bear spent his indoor recovery time in the ABR Recovery Center. Soon after Hartley arrived, Beignet, Boudreaux, and the Beary Triplets arrived. These young cubs of the year resided in the Cub Nursery and later spent time in the original Cub House before moving into an outdoor enclosure. Before long, yearlings Sweetie, Daffodil and Iris arrived.

With nine bears at ABR, it was imperative to complete Hartley House quickly and get Enclosures 1 and 2 ready to receive bears.

Thank you for your ongoing support for our mission. We couldn't do our work without YOU! https://appalachianbearrescue.org/2024-bear-necessities-campaign/

03/08/2025

ABR Daily Update-March 8, 2025-Trucks and Cubs 🛻 🐻

Weather: 60F (16C) Humidity 61%, Cloudy ☁️

Our current facility maintenance extends to ABR vehicles too. The Toyota Tundra, which our wonderful fans won for us in the 2013 Toyota contest, has served us well. In turn, our curators take special care of it. Considering it transports bears, equipment, building materials, and all sorts of things over all manner of terrain, it gets bumps and bruises. The curator took the Tundra in to have various dings and dents repaired, and it reappeared good as new. We can't overstate its value to us over the last eleven years, and we're truly grateful for your support and Toyota's generosity.❤️

Our video today is from 2019. We've posted it before and will again because it is just so much fun to watch. Please enjoy "Cubs Gone Wild" - best viewed in full screen. Click on the link below.

https://youtu.be/O8UdkjVuV9I?si=seqcLze4ZDJFAbZ_

🎉Our Visitor & Education Center at Trillium Cove is open! Please click on the link for more information:
https://appalachianbearrescue.org/contact-us/

🛑bearwise.org offers excellent information on what black bears are up to at this time of year and what to do if you hike or live in “Bear Country”.

*We post one update daily, seven days a week.

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March 18, 2025: The ABR Recovery Center The ABR Recovery Center is the oldest permanent structure at the bear facility. It was constructed in 1996, primarily by Americorps volunteers and ABR volunteers. It was built as a storage building that might also be used to house very small or injured cubs. If buildings could talk, the ABR Recovery Center would have plenty of stories to tell...the escape of Houdini Bear, a long night for Deacon Bear, years of storing ABR "stuff", and multiple renovations that turned it into a facility used primarily for injured young bears. We hope you enjoy this video introduction to a building that has become a very important part of our ABR mission.

March 9, 2025: The Hartley House It's easy to assume that everyone knows about all the buildings, pens, and bears at Appalachian Bear Rescue. After posting a video of the making of the Cub House, we realized that you might enjoy knowing the history of some of the other buildings at ABR. Hartley House was constructed in 2019. The ABR team spent several years planning the layout and location of a new "Cub House" built to service Enclosures 1 and 2. The Cub House (built in 2014-15) served as a model for what we would build. Fortunately, cubs and yearlings taught us valuable lessons about the Cub House. We incorporated the new knowledge into our plan for what would become Hartley House. We started 2019 with no cubs onsite and broke ground on the new building in mid-January. Hartley Bear arrived at ABR on Valentine's Day - February 14, 2019. Hartley Bear spent his indoor recovery time in the ABR Recovery Center. Soon after Hartley arrived, Beignet, Boudreaux, and the Beary Triplets arrived. These young cubs of the year resided in the Cub Nursery and later spent time in the original Cub House before moving into an outdoor enclosure. Before long, yearlings Sweetie, Daffodil and Iris arrived. With nine bears at ABR, it was imperative to complete Hartley House quickly and get Enclosures 1 and 2 ready to receive bears. Thank you for your ongoing support for our mission. We couldn't do our work without YOU! https://appalachianbearrescue.org/2024-bear-necessities-campaign/

March 7, 2025 - Completed Cub House ✅ Have you ever wondered about the history of some of our bear facility buildings? The Cub House is a building down by Wild Enclosures 3 and 4. After nearly 10 years, Appalachian Bear Rescue finished the "final" touches on it this past week. That is, until new bear cubs come through and undoubtedly teach us more ways we can improve. Please enjoy learning about the history of ABR's Cub House in the video below.😊🐻 Thank you for your support.

Facebook Live with Greg and Tori

Join Greg and Tori for a Facebook Live update! If you want to purchase tickets for our 2025 Mardi Gras Party, you can do so HERE: https://appalachian-bear-rescue.myshopify.com/products/abr-mardi-gras-party

Facebook Live Update February 5th 2025

Wild Enclosure 1 has been successfully burned!! 🔥 Join Tori and Katrina to get all of your questions answered about the benefits of prescribed fire.

ABR Daily Update-January 31st 2025-Taking Care of Business 💪- Yesterday our Curators further dismantled the platforms in Wild Enclosure 1. Their efficiency would impress even the most destructive of bear cubs. 😳 We are lucky to have such an amazing staff! 💓 Thank you for your support.

Facebook Live Update January 29th 2025

Our bear cubs LOVE their climbing platforms! If you would like to help us this off-season with replacing the platforms throughout our facility, you can purchase e-gift cards from Menards at the link below. Please include your name and address in the "Message" box so that we can send you an official tax receipt. If you can, please also email us and let us know what you are sending. Thank you so much! ☺️ Recipient Name: ABR Dana Dodd Email Address: [email protected] https://www.menards.com/main/gift-cards/menards-reg-egift-card/9033679/p-1642874254335002-c-3410.htm

Facebook Live Update January 24th 2025

Join Curator Tori to talk about ABR's release protocols.

Facebook Live Update January 22nd 2025

HAPPY CUBBY BIRTHDAY! 🥳Scruffy, Rags and Phoenix Bear are officially yearlings! 🐻🐻🐻

Facebook Live Update January 17th 2025

Happy Friday!

Facebook Live Update January 15th 2025

Thank you for everyone's flexibility today! Please join Tori and Greg for an update. 🐻

Facebook Live Update January 10th 2025

Have a great weekend 🐻