Eagle scout installs bat boxes at preserve

FALLBROOK – Zach Zinniger of Boy Scout Troop 737 recently completed the 35th Eagle Scout project for the Fallbrook Land Conservancy (FLC).

Under the guidance of Mike Peters, executive director and preserve manager for the FLC, Zinneger constructed and installed two bat boxes along the riparian habitat adjacent to Ostrich Farm Creek on Karen Tucker Preserve.

Bat houses provide a safe haven for bats to raise their young, helping to ensure their survival. Bats not only feed on pesky insects, including mosquitoes, they are valuable pollinators that also help spread seeds.

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