By Guest contributor Anna Forrester Seven years ago, my partner and I became the enthusiastic owners of an abandoned farm in central Pennsylvania. The property included an early 20th century bank barn, complete with a resident colony of bats. Reports of white nose syndrome and its devastating effects on the area’s bat populations had recently begun appearing in the media and – though we hadn’t had any up-close, intimate experience with our bats -- we soon found ourselves working to help track the spread of the disease and the fate of our bats by participating in the Appalachian Bat Count…

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