Meeting Announcements
BAT BLITZ 2008
August 11 - 14, 2008
Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
Download: 2008 Bat Blitz flyer (PDF - Updated 11-24-07).
The 2008 SBDN Bat Blitz will take place at the 182,000 acres
Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
from August 11th to the 14th. The Bankhead is in northwest Alabama, about an hours
drive north of Birmingham. The forest contains over 150 known caves and the 22,000 acres Sipsey Wildnerness Area.
It is a diverse landscape with longleaf pine in the south and cove hardwoods to the north.
Blitz Headquarters will be at Camp McDowell
which is located 15 minutes south of Double Springs and 30 minutes north of Jasper.
Arrival is set for Sunday (10th) but accommodations will be available for early arrivals
on Saturday (9th) afternoon/evening. Netting will occur Monday thru Wednesday (11th - 13th) and
departure will be on Thursday morning (14th).
Potential species include Indiana, Gray, Red, Big Brown, Northern
long-eared, Eastern Pipistrelle, Hoary, Rafineque's big-eared, Evening,
Silver-haired, Seminole, Southeastern, and Little Brown bats.
For more information, contact Tom Counts (phone: 205-489-5111, Ext 142;
tcounts@fs.fed.us) or Allison Cochran (phone: 205-489-5111, Ext. 141;
jacochran@fs.fed.us).
WANTED: SBDN Bat Blitz Hosts -
The annual Bat Blitz is one of our most successful
programs. This program brings together biologists and land managers to gather important information on
the bat fauna of a selected area. Learn more:
Bat Blitz Information and FAQs
SBDN ANNUAL MEETING & COLLOQUIUM 2009
February 12 - 13, 2009
Jonesboro, Arkansas
The 14th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Bat Diversity Network and the 19th
Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern
United States is scheduled for February 12-13, 2009, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
It will be hosted by Dr. Tom Risch, Arkansas State University
(trisch@astate.edu) and
Blake Sasse, Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission, (dbsasse@agfc.state.ar.us).
More information.
BIG-EARED BATS SYMPOSIUM 2010
March 9 - 11, 2010
Athens, Georgia
Mark Your Calendars!
The Southeastern Bat Diversity Network will host a Symposium on Conservation and
Management of Big-eared Bats (Corynorhinus) in the Eastern United States in Athens,
Georgia on March 9-11, 2010. The program will include two and a half days of invited and
solicited presentations (oral and poster) covering the three taxa of big-eared bats in the
eastern United States (Ozark Big-eared Bat, Virginia Big-eared Bat, and Rafinesque's
Big-eared Bat). The symposium will target land managers, researchers, natural resources
administrators, and students interested in the biology, ecology, conservation, and
management of eastern big-eared bats.
A first call for papers will be made in Fall 2008
with a final deadline for abstract submission in Fall 2009. Oral presenters may submit a
manuscript for possible publication in the symposium proceedings. For more information,
contact Steven Castleberry (scastle@warnell.uga.edu).
