Peninsula State Park Hosts Bat Monitoring Workshop

For decades Peninsula State Park has harbored a significant bat nursery colony, one of the largest in the state. With the threat of deadly white-nose syndrome and loss of habitat, monitoring the size and health of the nursery colony is important.

Peninsula State Park is hosting a Bat Monitoring Workshop on Feb. 22 from 2 – 3:30 pm at the Gibraltar Town Fire Department at 3496 County Road F. This program is free and open to the public. Bill Mueller of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory will share information on bat ecology and biology, threats to bats, the reasons why bat monitoring is becoming important, and will show how to use ANABAT units. Mueller will also be speaking with Gibraltar High School’s Ecology Club.

Participants will have the option of “adopt” a bat monitoring site for 2012, and be part of a statewide effort to save Wisconsin bats.

For more information call Naturalist Kathleen Harris at 920.854.5976 or email [email protected].