Bats
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (D.E.Q.) recently awarded the 2023 Excellence in Mining Reclamation Award for non-coal to Little Missouri River Mine for their efforts in developing a bat box program to help improve foraging habitat for several bat species. The Little Missouri River Mine is a bentonite mine operated by the American Colloid…
Senate votes to limit critical habitat designation for imperiled species and drop bat’s protections By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered species. Senators called for reinstating a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump but rescinded by the Biden administration…
A popular cave in the Bighorn National Forest will be closed again this year. Forest officials have once again closed the Tongue River Cave to the general public in 2020. Last year, a maternity roost of Townsend’s big-eared bats was discovered in the cave, which prompted the most recent of several periodic closures of the…
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