Converted Utility Pole Batroosts

UCA graduate student Sarah Martin and Zack Baer with Copperhead Consulting build guano catchers at the bottom of roosting poles hoisted by AECC. The excrement will provide DNA material to determine the bat species moving into the roosts. (Photo By: AECC)

AECI crew prepares hole where a roost made from a pole and artificial bark will be hoisted as part of AECC’s voluntary mitigation project to protect bats. (Photo By: AECC)

Zack Baer with Copperhead Consulting (left), Alyssa Bangs with USFWS, UCA grad student Sarah Martin and AECC’s Stephen Cain (right) wrap the top of a pole with artificial bark that will serve as a roost for bats under a voluntary mitigation project by AECC. (Photo By: AECC)

AECC partnered with USFW, The Nature Conservancy, Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission on the voluntary mitigation project to conserve bats by building 12 roosts. (Photo By: AECC)

Tim Beene of AECI makes sure the “eco sock” is properly fitted on an untreated pole topped with artificial bark that will serve as a roost for bats as a voluntary mitigation project by AECC in rural Arkansas. (Photo By: AECC)

Tim Beene of AECI (left) and Zack Baer with Copperhead Consulting (foreground) work on final installation of bat roost, a utility pole topped with artificial bark and fitted with a protective “eco sock” at the bottom as part of AECC’s voluntary mitigation project. (Photo By: AECC)

Artificial bark atop the pole serves as a roost for bats. (Photo By: AECC)