Need Some Elective Hours? Go Batty...

Be sure to join in next Tuesday, September 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. ET for this live distance learning adventure. Representatives from the USDA Forest Service, Bat Conservation International, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and San Antonio Zoo will be discussing bat basics, the importance of bats in the ecosystem, threats to bats, how to help bats, and of course the amazing emergence of millions of bats from Bracken Bat Cave. Watching and participating in the live program on September 18 is easy! Just click on the webcast link that will be on the homepage: http://BatsLIVE.pwnet.org. If you can’t watch the program live, it will be archived on the web site approximately a week later (on September 25) and available as streaming video.

Also as part of BatsLIVE, a webinar about cave and karst topography will be held on October 11 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation. The webinar is for teachers, non-formal educators, and others. For more information, go to http://batslive.pwnet.org/resource/webinars.php.