About 200,000 endangered Indiana bats spend summers around Missouri’s Mark Twain Lake; crews are now thinning trees to reopen flight, foraging corridors as habitat work targets one of the species’ largest remaining concentrations
As per the report, treatments are carried out in late summer and early autumn, when trees begin moving nutrients and stored energy toward their roots in preparation for winter. That movement helps carry the herbicide deeper into the trees. Every autumn, as forests begin to thin naturally, another kind of clearing takes place around Missouri’s…