Letter to Jeff Gardetto, BLM, notifying him of the discovery of a lava tube cave identified as a maternity roost for Townsend's big-eared bat

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This letter reports that a graduate student "[t]his past summer" discovered a cave while doing grouse research. Twenty bats were estimated to be using the cave. On the evening of 9 August 1996, Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) personnel briefly set up a net at the entrance and netted four adult Townsend's big-eared bats: one male and three females. Two of the three females were obviously lactating, indicating that the cave was being used as a maternity roost for this species. This cave, then, is the third known maternity roost located in Idaho. It was unclear to the researchers whether the cave is on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) property; both agencies were notified. The letter also mentions a few of the recommendations made for this species by the Idaho Conservation Effort's Draft Habitat Assessment and Conservation Strategy.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Mammals

Citation: Wackenhut, M. 1996. Letter to Jeff Gardetto, BLM, notifying him of the discovery of a lava tube cave identified as a maternity roost for Townsend's big-eared bats.