How cool, Dianne!! I hadn't heard of Bays Mountain Park before, but it looks like a very pretty place I wonder who the parent wolves at Wolf Park were for the wolves that Bays received. I think it's great that facilities will swap wolves to keep the gene pool clean. Wolf Park donates a lot of wolves to various facilities. The past couple of years, however, there haven't been any puppies born as the alpha female has been sterilized. It's a good thing too, because the alpha male is her bro! Yuk! LOL Anyway, I was lucky enough to work there for 2 years in college (years 1995-1997) and the times I worked, I got to be there for the births of the puppies by Altair and Chinook (both have since passed on ) as well as the rare instance of one of our lower ranking females(Karin) having puppies. It was pretty exciting to have 2 litters of pups in one year. That hardly ever happens, since the alpha female usually prevents it.
What sorts of things did you get to do at Bays? Of course, when I first started volunteering, I got to do a LOT of the grunt work...aka cleaning enclosures (when it's 90 degrees and humid, it's a very nasty job...), seating people for the lectures and taking money at the gate. But, the cool thing about it was, when cleaning the enclosures...I got to go in with the wolves! The more you volunteered, the more "wolf time" you would get, and I got to start helping out with the wolf/bison demonstrations on Saturdays. All in all, it was one of the best experiences I had in college