Season Watch Newsletter: 8/25/2023

Ahoy, woodland watchers, lakeside lookers, and prairie peepers! I'm out of town this week, so the newsletter is slightly shorter than usual. (Pro tip: Take the extra time to look at a flower or something instead of hunching over your Electronic Device like a badly aligned buzzard.)

FEATURE: BATS!

Y'all, I love a bat. They have cute little pug faces, they eat mosquitoes, and I feel like they'd give the best, warmest hugs! Alas, I'm not seeing as many of my winged friends as I did growing up- populations of cave-hibernating bats have plummeted by over 90% since the introduction of white-nose fungus in 2006.

Melissa Boman, a wildlife survey specialist with the Minnesota Biological Survey (#dreamjob), joined the morning show to talk about her work tracking, identifying, and counting bats. (Spoiler alert: her team found a new species in Minnesota!)

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