By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator, Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands Bats are hot these days! If you are a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan, bats are swinging and folks are cheering. If you happen to be an Indiana bat aficionado, then you may have heard that there’s a movement afoot to designate theContinue reading “Bats: Master of the Night Sky”
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Squirrel!
By Alyssa Nyberg, Restoration Ecologist at Kankakee Sands If you thought that squirrels were a distraction for dogs, you should see the Kankakee Sands Staff when someone says, “squirrel!” Whenever we think we see one of the recently-released Franklin’s ground squirrels (Poliocitellus franklinii) on the prairie, it’s worth stopping in our tracks to confirm. (NoteContinue reading “Squirrel!”
