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They sleep or roost during the day in

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trees and at night they go out in Fords

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and fly away from the roost and

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forage on various trees . Basically

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fruit flowers . I am Scott

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Vote Natural Resources specialist for

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Anderson Air Force Base . We're the

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environmental part of CE S and our role

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is to manage uh , endangered species

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population on base and we're required

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by law to do that . I managed the

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Mariana Fruit Bat monitoring and

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management program . Guam resident bats

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on Anderson are 50 to 100 . Uh , our

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last base count . We counted over 100

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though . So that's good . We get a

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bunch from ROTA that come over every

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year and we just figured that out about

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three or four years ago , two years ago ,

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it was about 1200 that came over .

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We're , we're trying to increase the

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population . There's probably

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differences in the forest between here

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and rota tree diversity , trees that

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the bats might spread . Probably

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they're not doing that here . They're

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probably less common , major pressures

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on the population or hunting . You know ,

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it's a popular thing to eat the local

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population and also , uh , predation by

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brown tree snakes on the juvenile bats .

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One of the things we're doing to help

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the bats is , uh , reforestation . Uh ,

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Guam's forest , especially on the

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military bases . They have really high

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numbers of deer and pigs which are not

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native and they have a very heavy

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impact on the forest . So we've got

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areas that we've fenced and then we

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remove the deer and pigs and non native

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trees will remove and then plant

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natives , the various , uh , threatened

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endangered species or listed species .

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We would say we've got various programs

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to help them out or figure out what the

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problem is with that species . So a lot ,

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we do a lot of population monitoring

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the bats , sea turtles . Uh , we've got

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endangered snail species and butterfly

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species and endangered orchids and

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several endangered tree species . So

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we've got quite a bit . They're here ,

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they're really special . They're what

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make the Marianas such a great place to

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work .