Contact Meg Goodwin with the TPWD. She is the Texas Bat Biologist. Even in here Houston there are several known bat roosts that are monitored regularly by volunteers including me and some of my students. There are two roosts within 3 miles of my home and school.
There is also an educational program contained in a hugh foot locker available to schools. Something fun is sit around with a "bat detector." This one I use with an external speaker added to it. http://home.netcom.com/~t-rex/BatDetector.html I tell my neighbors it is an "Alien Detector." Let the fun begin. Later, ~F~ > > Even > > in Texas I can't tell you how many bats of what species we have in > > our caves, because NO ONE IS DOING THAT RESEARCH. Even for the big, > > popular freetail caves that obviously contribute to our > > environmental well- being as well as our economic health, we only > > have a rough idea of numbers and no clue about whether those > > populations are stable, declining, or (unlikely) increasing. > > Given the relatively high number of cavers in Texas and the relatively > low numbers of publicly accessible caves, wouldn't it be possible to > put some of those cavers to use as volunteers for bat monitoring? > > I'd love to do this kind of volunteer work, but I don't know who to > contact in the bat research field. Maybe someone at BCI would know? > > Diana > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Diana R. Tomchick > Associate Professor > University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center > Department of Biochemistry > 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. > Rm. ND10.214B > Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. > Email: [email protected] > 214-645-6383 (phone) > 214-645-6353 (fax) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected] For additional commands, > e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
