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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 27 > Looking high and low for bats

Looking high and low for bats

With the prospect of homes close to a series of caves near Bend, a threatened species is the star of one state survey this summer

By Peter Sachs / The Bulletin
July 27, 2008

The Batbox registered the sound of soft static as Jess Jordan knelt 20 feet from the small entrance to a lava tube cave, waiting for bats to come out and start feeding.

The sun had just set across the Stevens Road Tract just southeast of Bend’s city limits. Jordan and Shawn Zumwalt....

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