Superabundant Skunks

Superabundant Skunks

It’s that smelly time of year when amorous male skunks roam the island in search of mating opportunities and some have close encounters of the vehicle kind. For much of the winter our striped skunk population has been snoozing in underground borrows in groups of two...
Northern long-eared bat update, November 2020

Northern long-eared bat update, November 2020

While COVID-19 did not impact our other wildlife work this spring and summer, it did halt most of our bat research.  We were not able to handle any bats for fear of transmitting COVID-19 to them when North American bats are already struggling with a devastating...