Posted October 30, 2015 11:23 am by Comments

By Justin Stakes

Bats

Photos texted to officers’ phones when trespassers threaten sensitive caves.

Bats – Little brown bats, like the one shown, are among the many species of bats that have experienced dramatic losses since the onset of white-nose syndrome in Pennsylvania. Protecting bats where they are most vulnerable increases their chances of recovery.
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Pennsylvania Game Commission

Harrisburg, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- An alert sounds through a smartphone speaker. A real-time trail-camera photo has just been sent by text message to a Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife conservation officer.

People are trespassing again at an abandoned mine site, perhaps not even realizing any breach into the mine poses a serious and potentially lethal threat to already-beleaguered cave-bat populations there. With the alert sent, the officer makes it to the mine in time to head off the trespassers.

Soon word spreads that officers seem to making appearances at the mine just about every time someone shows up there. People stop going there. And, in what are dark days for bats in Pennsylvania and throughout the eastern United States, every bat in the mine has a better chance of surviving because of it. This is a scenario that has played out – time and …Read the Rest

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