“Rehabilitating the Northeast’s Orphaned Cubs”

Lyme local, Ben Kilham is making the news with his amazing work with orphaned black bear cubs.

Check out the Rutland Herald article to learn more about the Kilham Bear Center. (See an excerpt below)

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Photos from John Fusco

Ben Kilham never set out to become a bear whisperer or bear stepfather, but with 300 orphaned bear cubs raised and released into the wild, either title sounds appropriate.

“Everyone says bear whisperer, but I don’t care much for that,” Kilham says. “It’s overused. There’s horse whisperers, and dog whisperers and bear whisperers. … We’re care givers.“

“We” is Kilham and his sister Phoebe, who are licensed wildlife rehabilitators, and his wife Debbie, who comprise the staff of the Kilham Bear Center. Set along a dirt road in Lyme, New Hampshire, they take in orphaned bears from New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, feed and care for them, and prepare them for release into the wild at 18 months of age. A dozen of the 29 bears under their care this summer are from Vermont.

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