A stand with a plan
James Donahey, forester and silviculturist for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, stands in a red pine plantation in decline. (USDA Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)
To the average mountain biker or hiker on the Pine Brook Trail, there may not be anything about the area that stands out. Lots of trees, some dead and downed…
#Bats, Landscape, #Resilience, #HabitatRestoration
Save the bats!
LEFT: The harp trap is set at the door of the cave just a few cold, wet steps inside the mouth of the Minnetonka Cave. The cave provides a consistently cool habitat for bat hibernation in winter. RIGHT: Jason Beck, biologist with Idaho Fish and Game, tightens a nylon filament on the harp trap…
#Bats, #WhiteNoseSyndrome, #USGeologicalSurvey, #USFishAndWildlifeService, #Disease
It‘s bat time
Tricolored bats are so tiny that they are called microbats. But they gobble up insects, eating up to half their body weight every night, which is a huge help to farmers and the agricultural industry. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo by Ann Froschauer)
During this time of the year, while ghosts and…
#Wildlife, #Bats, #BatWeek, #EndangeredSpecies, #WhiteNoseSyndrome, #InvasiveSpecies, #ForestLandownerSupport
Bats
Keeping bats safe from you
Bats are a very important part of our ecosystem. They are the primary predator of a vast number of pests that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually. Bats also pollinate flowers and disperse seeds that make the rain forest grows and the deserts bloom.…