Well you guys can start posting some pic and vid of your work and show us how it's done , all I see is words . I know don't have time bla bla bla bla .
Pesky, by your logic if I shoot a video or take photos I'm now doing things right?
Questions:
1) In order to exclude bats do you need to trap them?
2) If your client wants to see the bats should you trap them?
3) Is there any reason outside of the dept. of health in your state confirming rabies and asking for a sample for you to catch a single bat
let alone a colony (outside of removing a live bat from inside a dwelling as everyone does at some point in their year multiple times)
4) Do you think it is appropriate to relocate bats?
5) If you do think it is appropriate have you inquired with your US Fish and Wildlife Service or DNR about any regulations pertaining to this
action?
6) Do you know the consequences of catching a bat colony and holding it captive in a metal box for multiple hours before you drive to the country
and release?
7) Do you think anything other than DOH asking you to catch a single bat for rabies testing would ever require the use of a bat trap?
8) Do you know that anyone wanting to use a bat mist net professionally to capture bats or harp trap must have a permit to buy it from professional sources?
9) Do you have proof of survival or mortality after you have released the bat colony in the "new area"?
10) Do you know that state and federal lists for threatened and endangered and sensitive species are different in most states, meaning you can be legal
on one list and not on the other by touching, taking, or molesting in any way various bat species of conservation concern?
On another note pesky, I have not seen someone use rabies as such a big stick in all of my career having worked in wildlife disease for over a decade on more than 10 different national programs. You discuss the rabies cases that are found as though all bats have rabies which means you are using the news media who report down and injured bats and those found and picked up without gloved hand or found within a sleeping quarters in a home.
You report rabies the way a reporter would report the flu by going into a hospital ward and saying 99% of people have the flu this year!
Please stick with what you know and stop trying to convince others without the background and knowledge to do so.
The meeting I attended with every state including yours represented state wise and federally on white-nose syndrome, showed me that not only are biologists and managers paying attention to exclusion, but they are also
and listen up on this one!
they are also looking at this forum!!!!!!
You and Dew if you are bat trapping are showing exactly what shouldn't be done except in very specific cases and telling all of these folks who can
and will regulate your industry and mine, that you don't actually know what your doing and that you are handling bats you shouldn't be in a very inappropriate way.
I won't sit in here and debate topics much anymore, frankly since a few months ago, this board has been taken over and I very seldom see the guys that used to post more that I would like advice from commenting. It has deteriorated to "hey look what I did" and the like.
Good luck, look forward to BCI and your state and federal folks giving you a jingle sometime soon to let you know about the new regs coming down the pipe!
Justin