Description
Please register here to join the North Carolina Bat Working Group.
Registration is $10 for professionals and $5 for students.
Upcoming annual meeting is November 21st, 2024.
SAVE THE DATE
North Carolina Bat Working Group (NCBWG) Annual Meeting
When:
November 21st, 2024, 10am – 4pm (timing subject to change), back up date is November 20th, 2024
Where : Bent Creek Forestry Research and Training Center, Asheville, North Carolina
Address : 1577 Brevard Rd, Asheville NC 28806.
Directions/Parking :
Once you enter the gate, follow signs for the Training Center. The Training Center is up on a hill. Park in the large parking lot.
Lunch : TBD.
The training center has a kitchen with a refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, and Bunn coffee maker. There is an outside picnic table under the wrap around porch. Several restaurants are a couple miles up the road by the Outlet Mall.
Overnighters: We haven’t called around but there are lots of hotel options in the Asheville area and several are likely to off er the government per diem rates.
For example, the Comfort Suites OutletCenter is close to the meeting facility and offers government rates.
Agenda: The meeting will follow the typical format. In years past we’ve had folks present on the following topics annually or less frequently. Please let us know if you have relevant updates to present as the meeting approaches. We will also
send out a call as it gets closer. Still contemplating a virtual option.
NCBWG committee updates
State Parks update
Federal/Regulatory update
NCWRC Update
NABat Update
Wind Energy Update
Bat Rehabber Update
-From your NCBWG Co-ChairsKatherine Etchison and Lauren Wilsonand Board Members Byron Levan(Treasurer),
Brooke Massa (Secretary), Rada Petric (At-Large), Lindsey Zarecky (At-Large), SueCameron (At-Large).
