Avon Library To Host Virtual Program on Black Bears In Connecticut

From the Avon Public Library:

Thursday, September 10 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple during her lecture about black bears, focusing on the natural history of black bears in Connecticut, an overview of black bear habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction and current research efforts. Ginny also provides practical recommendations for optimum coexistence with our black bear population.

A native Texan, Ginny Apple was one of the first full-time women sportswriters in the country, who left the field mid-career to pursue a path in communications/public relations.Through the years she has hiked, climbed, kayaked, skied and poked her way through the outdoors and developed a passion for all things natural. A move to the middle of the woods in Barkhamsted over a 13 years ago brought her into an environment filled with bears and other wildlife. Living in a house surrounded by Peoples State Forest, she observes a large population of Black Bears and supplies field notes and photographs on them to DEEP bear biologists. Her affinity for this magnificent creature led her out west to participate in a Grizzly research mission in Montana and to become a Master Wildlife Conservationist with the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Please register and a Zoom link will be sent to you before the event.

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