Conserve Wildlife Blog: Seeing bats in a different light


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From Conserve Wildlife: "Sundays in my house usually involve the New York Times and some hard-core housework. But on a recent sunny Sunday, I found myself inMorris County, testing the limits of my flexibility as I maneuvered myself through a small opening that is the entrance to Hibernia Mine, the most important bat hibernation area inNew Jersey.

Guided, with much patience and humor, by partner-in-bat-protection John Gumbs of the Bat Research Center and Mackenzie Hall, CWF’s resident bat biologist, I climbed up into a small space atop a steel door and, displaying little grace or athleticism, managed to wedge myself in the wrong direction, then the right direction, and finally to descend into the main mine shaft of Hibernia."

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/15/2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Bats
Tags: Bats hibernation white nose syndrome mines bat population
 

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