By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio When Cori Lausen wandered into a cavern in the Northwest Territories’ South Slave region – one locals had called “the bat cave” – she wondered if it would live up to its name. Venturing deeper into the cave, she eventually heard a few squeaks. Dragging themselves past a narrow pinch point in the cave system, she and another biologist entered a larger chamber and began spotting clusters of bats. “We started counting and we just kept walking and walking,” said Lausen. That day in September 2010, Lausen and her colleague counted about 3,000 little brown myotis bats. She says that’s the largest known hibernaculum for this species in all of western North America. “It was actually hard to stay quiet because…
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