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Article: New trail crowding imperiled bat species: County oversaw the project in Colossal Cave Mtn. Park.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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Byline: Dan Sorenson
Mar. 8--Pima County directed construction of a new statewide trail through Colossal Cave Mountain Park that comes within a stone's throw of an endangered bat species' roosting and feeding area, apparently without taking the same precautions expected of builders. The lesser long-nosed bat, listed as an endangered species in 1988, sometimes uses caves in the park during its migration from maternity roosts in other parts of Arizona to Mexico, according to published studies of the nectar-feeding mammal's behavior. In some places the new trail -- for hikers, mountain bikers and horses -- was carved out of desert hillside within sight of some ...