Dan Neubaum, "Colorado's Bats: Their Values and Challenges"

Dan Neubaum, a Species Conservation Program Manager with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will give a brief background of bats that occur in Colorado, explain their unique traits, their benefits to the ecosystem, and the challenges that arise when their world and ours overlap. He will describe some of the equipment used to study bats, including echolocation detectors, telemetry equipment, and mist nets. Attendees will learn about threats to bat conservation and Dan will explain the impacts of white-nose syndrome, a fungal outbreak discovered in North American bats that recently reached Colorado.