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Litchfield Hills Audubon Society presents Everything You Wanted to Know About Bears in CT with Ginny Apple September 8, 2025 6:45 PM Litchfield Community Center Join Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple as she talks about black bears, focusing on their natural history in Connecticut, an overview of their habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction, and current research efforts. She also provides practical recommendations for optimum co-existence with our black bear population. She will also bring black bear artifacts to share with the audience. Ginny, newly appointed board member of LHAS, is familiar to us from many wonderful presentations on the wildlife of Connecticut. Living in a house surrounded by People's State Forest, she has supplied a wealth of field notes and photographs to the DEEP on bears and other wildlife. Ginny is chair of the Barkhamsted Conservation Commission and on the boards of several like-minded organizations, including Friends of American Legion and Peoples State Forests (FALPS) and Friends of Connecticut State Parks. This free program, to which members and the public are welcome, will be held in-person at the Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road (Rt. 202). Free refreshments: 6:45 p.m. Business meeting: 7:00 p.m. Program to follow the business meeting If you cannot attend the meeting in-person, you may click on the link here to register for the Zoom option no later than Sept. 7: https://www.mobilize.us/audubon-chapters/event/832624/ (fb)