Peters students install bat boxes
Courtesy of Kelsey Sylvester, Peters Township Community Television
The post for the bat box is hoisted into place.
Courtesy of Kelsey Sylvester, Peters Township Community Television
Eli Hemmingson secures a sign to the bat box post.
Courtesy of Kelsey Sylvester, Peters Township Community Television
Students who led the bat box project are, from left, Graden Olson, Eli Hemmingson and Ashley Logan.
With the help of community partners, students at Peters Township High School installed bird and bat houses, set up compost sites, planted trees and developed other ideas to create habitats on their new campus this month.
As part of the annual capstone project for PTHS students in Scott Orelli and Keith Compeggie’s environmental science classes, the teachers reached out to the community for assistance on the projects.
CNX Resources is in its fourth year of the bat box community program and worked with three students to install boxes on school grounds.
The boxes are manmade summer roosting sites for bats, which aim to counter the negative effects of white-nose syndrome that has led to severe population declines, particularly in the northeast.