Multi-Bat Species General Conservation Plan: User's Guide

Multi-Bat Species General Conservation Plan: User's Guide
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This User’s Guide provides guidance for implementing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Multi-Bat Species General Conservation Plan for Routine Development Projects in New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

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Federally Threatened Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii)
New York Ecological Services Field Office
Through a series of laws created over the last century, Americans have declared that we need to collectively protect landscapes, fish, wildlife, and plants. Several agencies in the federal government put our country's conservation laws into action, and the Ecological Services Program of the U.S....
Conservation Office
Cortland,NY
A small turtle walks through the grass
Pennsylvania Ecological Services Field Office
The Pennsylvania Ecological Services Field Office is located in State College, Pennsylvania. We provide technical assistance and consultation to private citizens, local, county and state governments and federal partners in all 67 counties throughout the commonwealth.
Conservation Office
State College,PA
View from Roaring Plains
West Virginia Ecological Services Field Office
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service West Virginia Field Office works with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. Our office helps to recover threatened and endangered species, enforces federal fish,...
Conservation Office
Davis,WV
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Program
A rocky shoreline of a river. The water is calm. Mist and green branches line the river.
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Program
Falls Church,VA
Species
Cluster of roosting bats.

The Indiana bat is a medium-sized Myotis, closely resembling the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) but differing in coloration. Its fur is a dull grayish chestnut rather than bronze, with the basal portion of the hairs on the back a dull-lead color. This bat's underparts are pinkish to...

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Animalia
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Northeast