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Bee Delivery!
create some sweet tasting honey. Each hive could grow to contain 40,000 bees or more!The bee yard can be viewed near the top of our Expo Ski-Run - mind the electric fence that is designed to keep our local black bears out of the hives and honey! (NOTE: 2017 - the bees have moved to the base area).Here are a few more photos of the bees arriving:
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Kickstart Winter Conditioning Exercises
core strength also plays an important role during sporting activities, especially when snowshoeing. To do this exercise: Start in a pushup position, but instead of your hands on the floor, you rest on your forearms. While keeping your back straight (without an arched lower back or raised glutes), hold the position for 20 second intervals, while focusing on keeping your stomach tight. Increase the
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ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run Is Less Than 2 Weeks Away
ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run Is Less Than 2 Weeks Away A New Corporate Challenge Is Issued To Local Businesses Making This Year's Event Bigger and Better Than Ever September 11, 2012. North Vancouver, B.C. – The summer of 2012 has seen another great season on the Grouse Grind and registration for the 22nd ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run taking place on Saturday
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Happy New Years from the Wildlife Refuge
Happy New Years from the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife! Happy New Years Everyone! I just wanted to write a post thanking everyone for their support and care for our wildlife over the past year. 2012 was a great year for the Refuge: Grinder and Coola had another lazy summer and the wolves as well. It was also our Summer of Owls and Tyto, our resident Barn Owl, was very
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Another Successful Year at the Wildlife Refuge
Another Successful Year at the Wildlife Refuge As 2011 draws to a close, I can reflect on what a successful year it has been at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife. After a long 2011/2010 hibernation (the longest on record at 5 months!), Grinder and Coola were happy to get out into their habitats in early May this year. Last winter's unprecedented snowfall left a huge amount for
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First Hummingbird Banding Session of the Season!
First Hummingbird Banding Session of the Season! On Tuesday this week we held our first Hummingbird Banding and monitoring session of 2015. The birds had arrived a few weeks before but we give them some time to settle in and feed up after a long migration.The purpose behind the monitoring is to help conduct a long term study on hummingbird population numbers and species distribution. We are a
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Hectic Hummingbirds!
male Rufous (only the 3rd and 4th one's ever up here!!) and numerous Anna's Hummingbirds as well.We did have some recaptures from previous years too - the most impressive being a female Rufous Hummingbird banded in 2008 as an adult - making her at least 8 years old! That's a lot of trips to Mexico and back for the little lady.Our previous record session was 33 birds in about mid-July a couple years
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Bears Enjoying Late Summer Conditions, Fattening For Winter
30 pounds of food each per day. This will increase shortly to around 50 pounds a day. The bears will be expected to put on an additional 20-30% of their body weight to prepare for winter. This is anywhere from 150 to 300 pounds of extra bulk!Once we start to get much colder weather and the first snowfalls happen, we will taper off their food and then cut it off completely and this will trigger
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Grinder & Coola Emerge from Hibernation
Grinder & Coola Emerge from Hibernation April 28, 2008, North Vancouver, BC - Grinder and Coola, resident grizzly bears at Grouse Mountain’s Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, came out of hibernation on Friday afternoon after their longest hibernation period to date. Extreme snow conditions and unseasonably cool temperatures have a big impact on the length of their hibernation. After digging
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Getting Ready for Winter: Run Re-Establishment
involve? Most of the activity has been focused on brush cutting – think extreme weed-whacking! Many of these runs have not been touched since they were initially cut 20 to 25 years ago. That’s a lot of time for things to get overgrown. When things like bushes, shrubs and grasses grow taller on designated runs, it means that we need a certain depth of snow in order to cover it all before the run can be
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