"There's a perceived conflict between forest management and endangered bats. It also revealed the animals' preference for certain timber harvesting strategies, such as thinning and patch cuts.
Tracking the bats' movements through Indiana's state forests didn't just provide some of the first descriptions of the foraging behavior and home ranges of these species. The results are published in Forest Ecology and Management. The work was painstaking, and it took four years to track just 58 individuals.
Having fitted each bat with a tiny radio transmitter, the scientists traversed the dark forest to triangulate the bats' positions through the night. The goal was to track individual bats from the moment they left the roost at dusk to the time they returned near dawn.
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