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Project ID: 05-2-1-24

Year: 2005

Date Started: 06/03/2005

Date Completed: 11/16/2009

Title: Injury and Mortality Risks from Wildland Fire Smoke and Heat Exposures for Endangered Indiana Bats (Myotis Sodalis) in Maternity Roosts

Project Proposal Abstract: Burning within the summer (growing season) range of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) may adversely affect the species by injuring or killing individual bats. Accordingly, the USDI Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) usually requests that Federal land managers strictly limit or eliminate this activity. Countering the need to protect individual Indiana bats is the value of using both growing and dormant season fires for managing Eastern mixed-oak forests. The Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) has planned an ambitious burning program, their goals include mitigating the effects of the pending gypsy moth invasion and restoring historical ecosystems. A better understanding of the risks of injury and death for neonate and adult Indiana bats exposed to heat and smoke in maternity roosts is needed to help the DBNF assess and carry out their program. We propose a study with the following components. First, toxicology models of gas and heat effects on bats will be assembled and parameterized with data from the literature. Second, characteristic time courses of smoke concentrations and temperatures above surface fires and smoke concentrations in nighttime inversions after fires will be estimated. Third, a field study will be conducted to characterize maternity roosting crevices over the summer range of the Indiana bat. Using these data, suitable roosting crevices will be identified on the DBNF and field experiments will be conducted to enable us to predict smoke exposures for bats within crevices during fires. Finally, the above project components will be synthesized to produce a risk assessment. A workshop and accompanying publication will be used to provide guidance on minimizing bat risk from fires for USFS and USFWS personnel with responsibilities for the Indiana bat.

Principal Investigator: Matthew B. Dickinson

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: NRS-Forest Health-Sustaining Forests

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael Lacki	University of Kentucky	Department of Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator	James Norris	Norris Consulting Services
Co-Principal Investigator	Valerie Young	Ohio State University	Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Federal Cooperator	Michael T. Rains	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	8450	Refereed Publication	Response of Northern Bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to Prescribed Fires in Eastern Kentucky Forests
	8449	Refereed Publication	Meta-Analysis of Summer Roosting Characteristics of Two Species of Myotis Bats
	8446	Refereed Publication	Fire and the Endangered Indiana Bat
	8444	Refereed Publication	Effects of Wildland Fire Smoke on a Tree-Roosting Bat: Integrating a Plume Model, Field Measurements, and Mammalian Dose-Response Relationships
	9522	Refereed Publication	Ventilation of Animal Shelters in Wildland Fire Scenarios
	7861	NonRefereed Publication	Characterizing Smoke Emissions and Behavior of Landscape-Scale RX Fires in Ohio and Kentucky with Airborne and In-Fire Sensors and Field Sampling
	7851	NonRefereed Publication	Ohio Supercomputer Center Research Report 2008

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