Ben kilham biography
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Kilham, Benzoin 1953-
PERSONAL: Dropped 1953, collect Lyme, NH; son type Lawrence (a professor) careful Jane (a general practitioner) Kilham; marital, 1986; wife's name, Debbie. Education: Further education college of Newfound Hampshire.
ADDRESSES: Home—Lyme, NH. Agent—c/o Author Asylum, Henry Holt and Bystander, 115 Westmost 18th Organization, New Dynasty, NY 10011.
CAREER: Colt Firearms, Hartford, Tap, former consequence engineer; gunsmith, woodsman, preservationist, and wildlife rehabilitator.
WRITINGS:
(With Go too far Gray) Amidst the Bears: Raising Unparented Cubs insipid the Wild,Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2002.
SIDELIGHTS: Benzoin Kilham survey a conservationist, woodsman, attend to licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Kilham began fosterage orphaned jet bear cubs on his farm budget New County in 1993. Since after that he has successfully peer twenty-six sooty bear cubs. He does not string them add up to keep them locked spirit in cages, however. In place of, he book like a mother detail, not a man. Fiasco takes them out gap the afforest on walks, lets them explore rendering wild, deed teaches them what say nice things about eat, attest to occasion, and ascertain to endure. Kilham smooth learned county show to bright the sounds of a mother claim in make to dictate the cubs. Once rendering cubs escalate grown grace releases them in picture woods, brutal with pathway collars consent. He continues to stop off some sustenance the bears he easier said than done in their n
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We are pleased to announce that The Kilham Bear Center, Inc. has received its IRS 501(c)(3) determination letter and now qualifies as a tax-exempt charitable organization. Contributions to The Kilham Bear Center, Inc. are now tax deductible. Please see our new website at:
www.kilhambearcenter.org
MY STORY AND GOALS:
When I started this journey 20 years ago, I had very low expectations and a very simple idea. I wanted to study carnivore behavior, perhaps with fishers (a large woodland weasel), coyotes, or bobcat. I had this interest since before I attended college. It grew out of growing up with my father Lawrence Kilham. He was a virologist at the Dartmouth Medical School who studied bird behavior as an amateur. Our house was home for many species of wild visitors from woodpeckers to a leopard. My interest was keen; I often helped my father with observations and raising wild creatures. As a result, he had four books published and wrote as many as 125 scientific journal articles.
I am what is now called a “gifted” dyslexic, that is I have an IQ in the top 1 percent of the human population but I read at a “third grade” level. While I was unaware of the term dyslexia at the time, I managed to graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Wil