Bat Conservation and Mining: A Technical Interactive Forum. Proceedings of Bat Conservation and Mining: A Technical Interactive Forum held November 14-16, 2000 at the Airport Hilton, St. Louis, Missouri

摘要

;Contents: Foreword; Steering Committee Members; Bat Conservation Steering Committee Recommendations; What is a Technical Interactive Forum; The Office of Surface Mining Perspective on Bat Conservation; Session 1: Why Bats (Ecological and Economic Importance of Bats, Importance of Mines for Bat Conservation, Challenges in Protecting Bats, Eastern Bat Species of Concern to Mining, Western Bats and Mining, Federally Listed Threatened and Endangered Species of Concern to Mining); Session 2: Interest Group Perspectives on Constraints, Experiences, Trends, and Needs (National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs, Perspective of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission/Eastern Regulatory Authority States on Bat Conservation and Mining, Bat Conservation in Mine Reclamation in Eleven Western States and the Western Interstate Energy Board Perspective on Habitat Preservation, Kentucky Coal Industry Perspective on Bat Conservation and Mining, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Perspective on Bats and Mining, Bat-Compatible Closures of Abandoned Underground Mines in National Park System Units, Sex, Lies, and Videotape: My Views on the Evolution of Federal Policy and Practice to Conserve Bats on Lands Managed by the Forest Service, The Role of the Bureau of Land Management in Bat Conservation, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies); Session 3: Methods for Protecting Bat Habitat Associated with Underground Mines (Methods for Determining Local Mine Characteristics of Importance to Bats, Pre-Mine Closure Bat Survey and Inventory Techniques, An Evaluation of Alternative Methods for Constructing Bat Gates at Mine Closures, New Mexico Experience with Bat Grates at Abandoned Mines, A Colorado Case Study to Secure an Underground Mine for Bat Habitat, Pennsylvania Case Studies to Secure Underground Mine Workings for Bat Habitat, A Midwestern Case Study to Secure an Underground Mine for Bat Habitat: The Unimin, A Magazine Mine in Alexander County Illinois, An Overview of the Response of Bats to Protection Efforts, Evicting Bats when Gates will not work: Unstable Mines and Renewed Mining, Monitoring and Evaluating Results of Bat Protection Efforts); Session 4: Protecting Bat Habitat Associated with Surface Mining and Reclamation (Bats at the Surface: The Need for Shelter Food and Water, Impacts of Mine Related Contaminants on Bats, Surface Habitat Disturbance, Protection, and Enhancement Associated with Active Surface Mining and Reclamation, Endangered Species Habitat Replacement, Surface Mining Case Study from Kentucky); Session 5: Program Development (State Program/Colorado, The McLaughlin Mine Bat Program: New Ideas in an Old Mining District, Implementation of a Recovery Plan for the Endangered Indiana Bat); Session 6: Interest Group Recommendations to Enhance Bat Conservation Associated with Mining (National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs, Interstate Mining Compact Commission/Eastern Regulatory Authority States, Western Interstate Energy Board/Western Regulatory Authority States, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Regional Bat Working Groups); Where Do We Go From Here.