There are mounting concerns for North American bats due to continuing and emerging threats from disease, habitat loss, fragmentation and wind energy development. Though these threats are likely to increase in severity, there is an opportunity to improve our knowledge of bat occurrence and habitat use, to learn how landscape changes impact local bat populations, and to establish regional monitoring that can inform local and national resource management decisions.
Goals
We are collaborating with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and state and federal natural resource managers in the Midwest. With this collaboration our goal is to develop a strategic approach to bat conservation across Wyoming and Nebraska with a focus on monitoring impacts and providing decision makers with decision-support tools and a conservation plan. Data collection includes a large component of citizen science, with local volunteers helping collect data across Nebraska and Wyoming.
Project Coordinator(s)
Christopher Fill
Project Duration
May 2019 - January 2022
Funding
-Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Project Location
Statewide Nebraska and statewide Wyoming
Cooperators
