Garden & Gun

Hope on the Wing

“When biologist Jason Robinson caught a northern long-eared bat in 2016, “the more I looked at it, the more excited I got”

At 9:52 on a muggy July night, our first bat flies into the ghostly filaments of a net suspended high in the air. It’s a young female Seminole: petite, the color of mahogany, fluffy, snub-nosed, and emitting a click that would be as loud as a freight train, if only we could hear it.

Seminoles are one of thirteen bat species that have

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