We will be sending out very few paper announcements of the meeting this year. Please bookmark the above site, and please feel free to pass on this information to other interested parties who do not have access to e-mail. His research involves studying the effects of timber management on the long-legged myotis in the Cascades. We've all heard that bats are blind, rabies-infected, flying vermin, that infested the Governor's Mansion in 1997.
Bats are fascinating creatures that are critical components of a balanced ecosystem.
They are not blind and they are more closely related to primates than to rodents. The two of us spent the summer or 1997 documenting which species of bats are present, the availability of roost sites, and foraging patterns of bats in the Arboretum. Nets were erected approximately an hour before dark during each evening of the study. We were struck by the low levels of activity and the singular lack of species diversity. There was no question as to their identification as Eptesicus as their flight pattern and body size are unmistakable.