On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:19:54 -0800 (PST), Siskuwihane
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>On Nov 21, 2:49 pm, bluezfolk <eric...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Nov 15, 7:58 pm, chatnoir <wolfbat3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/bal-te.md.bats...
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>> > Bats versus bicyclists
>> > Old W. Md. rail tunnel attracts both, but coexistence in doubt
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>> > By Frank D. Roylance
>> > November 15, 2008
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>> > Bats versus bicyclists
>> > Old W. Md. rail tunnel attracts both, but coexistence in doubt
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>> > By Frank D. Roylance
>> > November 15, 2008
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>> > 12next
>> > LITTLE ORLEANS - Clouds drift in front of a nearly full moon as a bat
>> > flutters to the mouth of an abandoned railroad tunnel in Western
>> > Maryland. There, caught in a web of fi****ng line, it drops into a
>> > biologist's trap.
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>> > A quick and gentle exam by flashlight identifies it as a big brown
>> > bat, a female. Gloved hands jot down her vital statistics and release
>> > her - one more data point in scientists' growing understanding of
what
>> > is believed to be Maryland's largest winter hideaway for bats.
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>> > The 4,350-foot Indigo Tunnel southwest of Hancock hosts an estimated
>> > 1,400 bats during their winter hibernation, some of them rare and
>> > endangered species. But the bats' fondness for the place could derail
>> > plans to extend a popular bike trail through the cavernous tunnel - a
>> > route that sup****ters hope will help lure thousands more tourists to
>> > this hard-pressed region.
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>> > In 2005, the administration of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. set aside
>> > $4.6 million in state and federal funds to extend the Western
Maryland
>> > Rail Trail, a 22-mile paved biking path, for 4.7 miles through Indigo
>> > Tunnel to the hamlet of Little Orleans in Allegany County. ... (cont)
My take??? Well...the bats found THIS place....I say go ahead with
the plans fr a bike path through the tunnel. If the bats don't like
it they will find some other place to spend their winter hibernation.
After all...I rather doubt that there would be all that much bike
traffic through there in mid-winter anyway. So where does the
problem lie????
__o | Every time I see an adult on a bicycle....
_`\(,_ | I no longer despair for the human race.
(_)/ (_) | ---H.G. Wells---
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