An edition of Flying blind (2013)

Flying blind

one man's adventures battling buckthorn, making peace with authority, and creating a home for endangered bats

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An edition of Flying blind (2013)

Flying blind

one man's adventures battling buckthorn, making peace with authority, and creating a home for endangered bats

"When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's relationship with bats--and with government--could be characterized as distrustful, at best. But the flying rats, as Mitchell initially thinks of them, launched him on a series of 'improvements' to his land that would provide a more welcoming habitat for the bats--and a modest tax break for himself and his family. Whether persuading his neighbors to join him on a 'silent meditation, ' pulling invasive garlic mustard out of the ground by hand, navigating the tacit ground rules of buying an ATV off Craigslist, or leaving just enough honeysuckle to give government inspectors 'something to find, ' Mitchell's tale is as profound as it is funny--a journey that changes Mitchell's relationship with Chiroptera, the land, and, ultimately, his understanding of his own past. Ruminating on the nature of authority, the purview of the state, and the value of inhabiting one's niche--Mitchell reveals much about our inner and outer landscape, in this perfectly paced and skilled story of place"--

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Language
English
Pages
208

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Table of Contents

Author's Note
Habitat
Forest Management Plan
The WHIP
Yahweh's Smile
Batshit
Niche
Echolocations
Authority
Field Notes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
599.4
Library of Congress
QL737.C5 M678 2013, QL737.C5M678

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 208 pages :
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26458378M
ISBN 10
1603585206
ISBN 13
9781603585200, 9781603585217
LCCN
2013015613
OCLC/WorldCat
841898360

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