Tag: Brad Herrick

Sustained by Students: The Volunteers Keeping Campus Bat Monitoring Alive

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At 8 pm, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is already pitch-black. Makeela Magomolla greets me near the entrance, armed with a headlamp and backpack, and we make our way down the path. By now, I’ve already missed sunset, the ideal time to see bats exiting the bat roost— which is hardly a 2-minute walk from the …

Lakeshore Nature Preserve welcomes new director 

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Brad Herrick, who has been selected as the new director of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, wants to change perceptions about the Preserve.  Herrick, who will begin his new role in October, most recently served as the Research Program Manager at the UW–Madison Arboretum. While many of us have walked the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path, wandered …