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Nov 15, 2009 4:14 pm US/Eastern

D.C. Children's Museum Uses Md. Black Bear Kits

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Most of western Maryland's black bears will never roam far enough to be spotted in the southern parts of the state or near D.C. and Baltimore.

But the Maryland Department of Natural Resources has nine 30-gallon plastic bins on wheels full of everything kids, museums and schools could need to better understand black bears.

The National Children's Museum in Washington has been borrowing the boxes, provided free of charge, for more than three years.

Seven years ago, state biologists and educators joined to organize the program.

Now students and children who see the museum's traveling exhibits can hold a real black bear hide, plastic skull, and replicas of bear scat.