One night, we got over 300 bats from just one building! Continuing with the bat monitoring, I also helped Alexa, Malheur’s wildlife biologist, put up bat sensors that record their call around headquarters and Buena Vista, which were left out for four nights.
Written by Marla Polenz, High Desert Partnership Bird Conservation Oregon has selected Keaira Burns, a college student from Burns, Oregon, as the inaugural recipient of the Bob Sallinger Fellowship Award.
The good things that make refuges work often take people to make them happen. At Malheur NWR this involves everything from managing the refuge’s complex irrigation system, to critical actions like issuing grazing permits and controlling the spread of invasive species that damage critical habitat for migrating birds.
