r The purpose of the Kanawha River Project is to provide the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a baseline survey of bats using the Kanawha River from river mile (RM) 0.0 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia to Kanawha Falls at RM 95.5. Comprehensive information on species composition, diversity and habitat usage of bats in the Kanawha basin is sought. Field work will consist of accepted bat sampling protocols, including mist-netting. In the event of an endangered species capture, the animal will be tracked using the most modern telemetry equipment available. |
Retreat! No bats. Attack of the big brown Mop up of two sites Evil wetland is hit hard. St. Albans and Scary Creek nets zero. Reserved Reserved
What, where, and how...
Recon, rain & cold;
Where did summer go?
First net night a bust.
Second night is so-so.
More lucys and
new island tried
Rain, wind, doom,
chaos,Neil's soaked(again)
New island site.
Banded lucy recovered
in town.
Rained out, but
long eared under a bridge.
Rain ends,
mussel survey a bust.
before break.
No bats in
Plymouth, WV
More nets=more bats
in Plymouth after all
Plymouth still produces,
site 12 for the birds.
Hit with rain (again).
Independance Day
Evil wetland
Scary Creek initiated,
Bills Creek revisited
St Albans site rearranged.
Rain, flood, doom.
More rain, more flood,
and bats anyway!
Big browns and
bat bugs.
Bat houses and more bugs
(oh my!)
More houses, flood wipes
out Frasier's Bottom site.
Anticlimatic.
Poison, poison, poison,
poison, poison, poison.
Five Mile Creek tosses us some bats.
WILL THIS FLOODING GIVE ME A BREAK???
This section of batmanagement.com is updated regularly with selected preliminary results of Bat Conservation and Management's ongoing Kanawha River project. This enables project coordinators to efficiently update state and federal agencies and other interested parties dynamically. In this way information can be analyized in near real-time and, for example, modifications of the survey objectives might be administered while surveyors are still in the field. Be aware that any data posted here is purely preliminary and exact location or other information may not be revealed due to private land ownership and/or the sensitive nature of our work. Certain links posted below may or may not be publicly active at the administrator's discretion. All web updates and photos by John Chenger, email: jchenger@batmanagement.com
This Days Inn is the official hotel of the Kanawha River Survey... Kroger #761, P.O. Box 607, Gauley Bridge, WV 25085
Field updates downstream of Charleston are possible through the generosity of Days Inn at the Liberty Square Shopping Center at exit 39 on I-64 in Teays Valley, West Virginia.
Field updates upstream of Charleston were possible through the generosity of Kroger at the Johnson Square Shopping Center on U.S. Route 60 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
Spike Mills, Manager
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