maya – Apr 23, 2007 12:00 AM

There are been many comments about the new den camera, some positive and some negative, thank you all for your emails, I am always striving for ways to keep people connected to the wolves. As I spoke about in earlier logs, the addition of the new camera is a transitional phase to give the Center some time to work out the kinks of a webcam delivery before the pups arrive. ElyMinnesota.com will keep hosting the main greeting rock camera, but the retired camera will likely move over to our site soon. The hope is to purchase a third camera that can be placed in the wolf lab for the pup’s arrival (May 2008), then follow the pups around until they are placed in the exhibit pack (around August 2008). At that time, we would put the pup camera in the Exhibit pack overlooking the rock and host all webcams on our site. In the mean time, you may have to go back and forth between the two sites. I know this may be inconvenient, but the transitional plan is a responsible way for us to test the waters on webcam delivery without giving up on people’s access. I worked all day last Saturday, and the wolves seemed to trade off the top spot on the den. It really is a position of status as to who gets den time. But, as summer approaches, the wolves are more likely to retreat to the cooler, forested parts of the enclosure, out of any camera range.