. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. North Carolina coastal plain. Most are near the Yeopim River in Chowan County, discovered by volunteer Paris Trail of Edenton. Otherwise, the bats have been found living in abandoned buildings, hanging from walls and rafters, along portions of Yeopim River and the Black and Cape Fear rivers in Bladen County. Clark focused on these areas because the bat seems to prefer swampy, undisturbed habitats that resemble the forests it enjoyed before development and logging pressures set in. "These happen to be
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. North Carolina coastal plain. Most are near the Yeopim River in Chowan County, discovered by volunteer Paris Trail of Edenton. Otherwise, the bats have been found living in abandoned buildings, hanging from walls and rafters, along portions of Yeopim River and the Black and Cape Fear rivers in Bladen County. Clark focused on these areas because the bat seems to prefer swampy, undisturbed habitats that resemble the forests it enjoyed before development and logging pressures set in. "These happen to be areas where there are still some mature forests that contain trees with extensive cavities," she says. "And I think these bats require that kind of habitat. Mature forests are rare and are disap- pearing very rapidly. Even with wetlands regulations, there's still a lot of pressure on mature forested ; The eastern big-eared bat lives throughout the south- eastern United States, from the Dismal Swamp in Virginia south and west through the coastal states to eastern Texas. It is known from south- eastern Oklahoma and western and southern Arkansas up the Missis- sippi River Valley to southern Illinois, southern Indiana and western Kentucky. Isolated popula- tions have also been found in southern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, Tennessee and central West Virginia. But few records of this bat are available in most states within its unsighted for most of the first half of the 20th century, Clark says. A few sightings in the 1960s broke the 50-year dry spell, but its numbers are thought to be declining. Today, it remains one of the nation's least understood bats. Not for lack of trying, however. David Lee, Museum of Natural Sciences. range. In North Carolina, it went The bat appears to live in small colonies in old swamp forests, but the future of this habitat is uncertain. Tliese cypress stumps were cut in Bladen County. Clark has invested 10 years in bring- ing to
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