One.

That’s how many Indiana bats are known to be living in CNY according to results of a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation field survey conducted in the beginning of the year.

Indiana bats are protected by the federal Endangered Species Act and New York Endangered Species law.

DEC declined to provide results of past bat surveys, which it conducts every two years, citing risks to the bats if their hibernation locations were made public.

It’s unclear what the presence of one hibernating Indiana bat means in the broader context of CNY’s Indiana bat population. Survey data are not a proxy for population size due to the limited areas that can be safely surveyed, DEC said.

The question is significant because the tiny, winged mammals have already delayed plans by Micr

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