. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. amount of legal protection, but prob- ably the primary benefit of the Cat- egory 2 listing is that it gets the word out that biologists need to start looking at the needs of this bat or to initiate surveys for this ; Each state can craft its own laws to safeguard native plants and animals beyond the federal protections. The eastern big-eared bat has benefited from this recogni- tion, though piece- meal, throughout its range. Every state it lives in has listed the bat in some cat- egory of concern.
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. amount of legal protection, but prob- ably the primary benefit of the Cat- egory 2 listing is that it gets the word out that biologists need to start looking at the needs of this bat or to initiate surveys for this ; Each state can craft its own laws to safeguard native plants and animals beyond the federal protections. The eastern big-eared bat has benefited from this recogni- tion, though piece- meal, throughout its range. Every state it lives in has listed the bat in some cat- egory of concern. In North Caro- lina, the big-eared bat and other nongame species are protected by the 1987 Nongame Act. This law makes it illegal to take, collect, pos- sess or kill certain nongame species without a permit, which is usually issued for research or education, says Randall Wilson, section manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources' Nongame and En- dangered Wildlife Program. This pro- gram also offers small grants that have funded some of Clark's research in North Carolina. To the north, Virginia took the step of declaring the bat endangered in July 1987, making it illegal to harm or ha- rass the bat or to modify its habitat to the point that it will be harmed, says Karen Terwilliger, a biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and In- land Fisheries. At the time, the bat was thought to be on the brink of disappearing, if not already gone, from its historic home in southeastern Virginia near the North Carolina border. It had been sighted in these forests only a few times in the previous 100 years, Terwilliger says. Clark proved otherwise in 1993 with a survey of the region that found 24 new roosts with 56 bats. "Within those borders, they had so David Lee, Museum of Natural Sciences. Researcher Mary Kay Clark inspects an abandoned "bat house" that is typical of most roost sites chosen by eastern big-eared bats in the coastal plain. few records,&qu
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