Good Bat Neighbor Presentation
March 20, 2025 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm ET
Location: University of Chicago Field Station (Three Oaks, MI)
Address: 7400 Warren Woods Rd, Three Oaks, MI 49128
Description:
"Help Your Local Bats: Become a Good Bat Neighbor!”Many of our bats are becoming endangered, and people can take simple steps to help! The Good Bat Neighbor (GBN) Program helps inform about the plight of bats and how to protect and restore their habitat right in your own backyard.
Learn how to create a Bat Garden with native plants, and improve habitat with actions as easy as reducing Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) and putting up a bat house. Bats have an uphill battle— habitat loss, pesticide use, a deadly infection spread by humans…
yet they help us so much— they eat disease-causing insects, protect crops from agricultural pests, and fertilize everywhere they go.
Won’t you give them a helping hand, too?
About Jen!
Jen has been passionate about helping wildlife since her first bird rescue when she was three. She started on habit restoration when she founded Juniper’s NatureScaping in 2006, with a focus on birds and pollinators, and began to incorporate bats with her graduate studies while she pursued a Master’s in Biology through Project Dragonfly at Miami University Ohio in partnership with the Chicago Zoological Society.
Jen created the Good Bat Neighbor citizen conservation programme and has presented throughout the Midwest at the annual Midwest Bat Working Group conference in Missouri and the Wild Things conference in Illinois, as well as meetings of non-profit organizations in Indiana.
Her aim of bringing bat conservation into communities has led her to co-host a university event, guest on a radio program, and write as guest editor for a regional newspaper. She has also made a number of nature shorts, including work for the Ohio Bat Working Group's Bat Blitz. On her international monthly web series, GBN Interviews, she speaks with bat biologists, bat rehabbers, and batty authors from around the globe, to bridge the gap between bat professionals and citizens [you can check it out on the Good Bat Neighbor YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@GoodBatNeighbor]
When she’s not busy producing bat education and outreach materials, and connecting with bat rehabbers and organisations around the world, she enjoys birding with her spouse in and around the Indiana Dunes.
Hoping to join us? Email Grace at gball@chikamingopenlands.org to reserve your spot today!
