My Neighbor Sam's Bear Story

The following story is by my neighbor Samuel Gray who is six years old. His Dad, Brian Gray is a Maine State Game Warden and he took Sam and his friends on a trip to find a mother bear and her cub that are part of the bear tracking program. Wednesday, March 23, 2005 I got up at 6:45. I met the Bear Crew at Ashland. The Biologist gave us a talk about bears and safety. We went 23 miles to Chandler Mountain. We climbed half a mile to get to the bear den. I got to hold the cub. It was a cute cub. The bear cub weighed five pounds. Lots of people held the bear cub. The bear cub was born the second week of January and its mother went into the den in October. Some people went to track down the mother bear. They came back with her about a half an hour later. The mother bear weighed 124 lbs. I took off my snowshoes at the top of the mountain. My feet got very cold up there. I saw the mother bear while the biologist assistants were examining her. My friend Amos got to hold the bear cub again. My Dad and I got to hold the bear cub. I have pictures of the baby bear and the mother bear. They put tags in the cubs ears and they changed the mother bears radio collar. I had some questions for Randy Cross; he is the head bear biologist. He is a nice man and I learned a lot about bears. We snowshoed back to the trucks and drove out to Ashland. Posted by The WhistleSmith at April 1, 2005 2:25 PM | TrackBack