Leopold Live: Bat Boxes
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 14: Bat Boxes. In this installment, we're joined by Bat Conservation International’s Fran Hutchins to discuss bat boxes and how to improve the habitat for bats on your property.
Leopold Live! began as a live streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we will be joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field.
Tune in to NRI's Facebook page to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Resources:
Bat houses: https://www.batcon.org/about-bats/bat...
Texas bat species: https://www.ibrc.org/batsoftexas/
Supplemental water for wildlife: • Leopold Live: Supplemental Water for Wildlife
Bat Conservation International: https://www.batcon.org/
Wildlife escape ramps: • Lesson: Constructing Wildlife Ramps
Dark skies: https://www.darksky.org/
Game cameras: • Leopold Live: Game Cameras
Bamberger bat cave: https://www.merlintuttle.org/worlds-f...