Death Valley National Monument Abandoned Mine Lands project and bat nets
Threloff DL. 1995. Death Valley National Monument Abandoned Mine Lands project and bat nets. Pages 136. In Riddle BR: Inactive mines as bat habitat: guidelines for research, survey, monitoring and mine management in Nevada. Reno NV. January 21-22, 1994. Biological Resources Research Center, University of Nevada. Reno
Resources Management staff at Death Valley National Park have constructed and installed over 200 strong steel cable nets across openings of abandoned mines. The nets have been quite successful in preventing human entry while permitting mine access to bats and other small animals. This short paper gives some details about construction and installation methods for the nets. The author also mentions the use of special rigid bat gates at Death Valley mines known to be heavily used by bats. These provide freer access, and increased use of these areas by bats has followed installation of the gates. Experiments are underway with a third type of exclosure for use at vertical mine shafts.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Threloff, Douglas
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- DEVA , LAKE
- Keywords
- Abandoned Mine, Abandoned Mine Lands (AML), Absence (Biodiversity), Bats (Chiroptera), Chiroptera (Bats), Death Valley National Park CA NV, Gates, Human Activity, Mammalia (Mammals), Management, Mines, Observations, Presence (Biodiversity), Taxa Links To References