Join us on Friday September 20, 2019 at the Green Mountain Technical and Career Center in Hyde Park (Lamoille Union High School campus, to right of the entrance drive) at 7 pm, for a wonderful evening. This is the Friends of Green River Reservoir our annual community fall lecture, "The Social Black Bear", presented by Ben Kilham of the Kilham Bear Center in Lyme, NH.

Ben Kilham is a wildlife biologist who has been researching and living with black bears for nearly twenty five years. He has become an expert in black bear behavior, as well as in rehabilitating orphaned and injured bears and reintroducing them to the wild. He is invited to lecture all over the United States and internationally. Kilham and his work with black bears have been featured in five internationally televised documentaries, including National Geographic and Discovery Channel features, Ben's popular lecture is based on firsthand experience raising cubs and observing black bears. It is illustrated with incredible videos and photos Ben has taken of bears. He has authored two books on bear behavior, and is well known for his up close and personal interactions with the many bear cubs he has rescued and raised to be returned to the wild.