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Save the bats!

A person in a white protective suit and N-95 mask is holding a bat gently with his blue gloved hands to release the bat back into its habitat.
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…
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