KSAR Winter Preparation

This week, temperatures will start dipping below freezing at night, and everyone at KSAR is working hard to prep our facilities for the winter. We have been putting plastic sheeting over the windows to help keep in the warm air. We are setting up electric heaters and wood burning stoves, which are necessary due to the decreased electricity we have in the winter months, often less than half the day. We are trying to purchase as much wood as possible while the prices are still relatively low to keep all our animals warm for the next few months. Each truckload of wood (roughly 560kg) is around $75 USD, and we have 14 facilities of varying sizes to keep warm. We don't know how hard this winter will be yet, but we'd like to pre-purchase as much as possible. We estimate we will spend between $2,000-$4,000 USD on heating supplies each month, depending on how cold it is, and we could use all the help we can get!