A collaborative effort to protect Michigan’s bats

  • A collaborative effort to protect Michigan’s bats
    A collaborative effort to protect Michigan’s bats
  • The silver-haired bat, shown here being held by a biologist, is one of four bat species that hibernate in caves and abandoned mine shafts throughout Michigan’s Keweenaw region. Inset photo, Researchers fit a little brown bat with a small tracking transmitter, which will provide data to help them better understand habitat threats and identify bat migration and roosting areas. KEWEENAW BAY INDIAN COMMUNITY
    The silver-haired bat, shown here being held by a biologist, is one of four bat species that hibernate in caves and abandoned mine shafts throughout Michigan’s Keweenaw region. Inset photo, Researchers fit a little brown bat with a small tracking transmitter, which will provide data to help them better understand habitat threats and identify bat migration and roosting areas. KEWEENAW BAY INDIAN COMMUNITY
  • Bat Blitz team members collect data from a captured little brown bat.
    Bat Blitz team members collect data from a captured little brown bat.
    Jutting out into Lake Superior is the Keweenaw Peninsula, home to Michigan’s Copper Country.This is where the earliest known metalworking in North America originated, with objects crafted by Indigenous peoples from Keweenaw copper becoming so prized that they have been discovered in archaeological sites throughout North America.European settlers also established mining operation...

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