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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Keep informed and speak up about concerns. It could make a difference. Read the story of old wooden bridges and bats. Bat diversity is known to be important to the ecosystem so retaining their population under the new bridge became a priority.
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Heron
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Michigan/detroit
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When we were kids we would watch for bats around our 3 25 ft pear trees, Nobody had the means to harvest the fruit at the top so as the fruit ripened it attracted insects.
While visiting Austin, Texas hundreds of bats flew out from under a bridge at Sunset. A new span is going to be built over the Detroit river connecting Canada to Michigan, It's sorely needed and will divert traffic away from traveling through Downtown [Mostly trucks carrying auto parts]. Since the Canadians have a hand in this maybe it's already in the plans. It gives me a great reason to have some dialog with our DNR. Maybe the bats will only stay the summer but that's mosquito season.
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