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Crews thinning forest near habitat of 200,000 endangered Indiana bats
Original: About 200,000 endangered Indiana bats spend summers around Missouri’s Mark Twain Lake; crews are now thin
About 200,000 endangered Indiana bats spend their summers around Missouri's Mark Twain Lake, one of the species' most important roosting areas. Work crews are now thinning trees in the surrounding forest, a practice used to improve bat roosting and foraging habitat but one that raises concerns about disturbing a federally protected species during the summer season.
Why now: Forest management work is taking place in the summer habitat of a large colony of an endangered bat species.
Indiana batMark Twain LakeMissouri
Evidence
- About 200,000 endangered Indiana bats spend summers around Missouri’s Mark Twain Lake; crews are now thin · The Times of India
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