YOUNG MAN WINS AN AWARD FOR BAT CONSERVATION, CONGRATULATIONS !

Good weekend to build a bat house, catch a free live bat show

Home    Donate    Contact Ansel Brenneman with some of the bat houses he has built. La Farge teen wins statewide award for bat conservation   Ansel Brenneman of La Farge received the Outstanding Achievement in Youth Citizen-based Monitoring Award at the recent Wisconsin Summit for Natural Resources Volunteers in Eau Claire. Ansel, a student at Laurel High School in Viroqua, champions bat monitoring by volunteering and giving public talks to get others involved. He started bat monitoring in 2016 as part of an 8th grade school project. Since then, he’s volunteered to count bats at their roosts and to monitor them with acoustic detectors, he's assisted while DNR staff have captured and processed bats, and he's been building bat houses. Thank you Ansel for all you do for bats! Time to build bat houses Bats are emerging from hibernation in caves and mines, and migrating back from overwintering sites in the south. Bats are deciding where to spend the summer and exploring sites, so right now is a great time to put up a bat house. Find a supply list, instructions, and videos to build a bat house. it's a great project for this weekend's wintry weather. Get started.  Bats Live! Presentations in Madison on April 15 See live bats up close at the free 6th Annual Bird & Nature Festival at Warner Park on Sunday, April 15, in Madison. Our DNR cave and mine specialist Jennifer Redell will be giving Bats Live! presentations  at 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by Madison Friends of Urban Nature (FUN) partner groups, Madison Parks, Madison Audubon Society,  Wild Warner, Friends of Cherokee Marsh and other local friends and environmental groups. Learn more.