1 00:00:02,049 --> 00:00:04,440 They sleep or roost during the day in 2 00:00:04,449 --> 00:00:07,969 trees and at night they go out in Fords 3 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:10,810 and fly away from the roost and 4 00:00:11,369 --> 00:00:13,369 forage on various trees . Basically 5 00:00:13,369 --> 00:00:17,110 fruit flowers . I am Scott 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,231 Vote Natural Resources specialist for 7 00:00:19,231 --> 00:00:21,231 Anderson Air Force Base . We're the 8 00:00:21,231 --> 00:00:23,629 environmental part of CE S and our role 9 00:00:23,639 --> 00:00:25,959 is to manage uh , endangered species 10 00:00:25,969 --> 00:00:28,229 population on base and we're required 11 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:30,829 by law to do that . I managed the 12 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,673 Mariana Fruit Bat monitoring and 13 00:00:32,673 --> 00:00:35,159 management program . Guam resident bats 14 00:00:35,169 --> 00:00:37,669 on Anderson are 50 to 100 . Uh , our 15 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,200 last base count . We counted over 100 16 00:00:40,209 --> 00:00:42,153 though . So that's good . We get a 17 00:00:42,153 --> 00:00:44,209 bunch from ROTA that come over every 18 00:00:44,209 --> 00:00:46,431 year and we just figured that out about 19 00:00:46,431 --> 00:00:48,765 three or four years ago , two years ago , 20 00:00:48,765 --> 00:00:50,709 it was about 1200 that came over . 21 00:00:50,709 --> 00:00:52,765 We're , we're trying to increase the 22 00:00:52,765 --> 00:00:54,431 population . There's probably 23 00:00:54,431 --> 00:00:56,598 differences in the forest between here 24 00:00:56,598 --> 00:00:58,653 and rota tree diversity , trees that 25 00:00:58,653 --> 00:01:00,487 the bats might spread . Probably 26 00:01:00,487 --> 00:01:00,439 they're not doing that here . They're 27 00:01:00,450 --> 00:01:03,060 probably less common , major pressures 28 00:01:03,069 --> 00:01:05,800 on the population or hunting . You know , 29 00:01:05,809 --> 00:01:08,529 it's a popular thing to eat the local 30 00:01:08,540 --> 00:01:11,069 population and also , uh , predation by 31 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,358 brown tree snakes on the juvenile bats . 32 00:01:13,559 --> 00:01:15,670 One of the things we're doing to help 33 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:17,892 the bats is , uh , reforestation . Uh , 34 00:01:17,892 --> 00:01:19,781 Guam's forest , especially on the 35 00:01:19,781 --> 00:01:21,948 military bases . They have really high 36 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:24,115 numbers of deer and pigs which are not 37 00:01:24,115 --> 00:01:26,003 native and they have a very heavy 38 00:01:26,003 --> 00:01:28,003 impact on the forest . So we've got 39 00:01:28,003 --> 00:01:30,003 areas that we've fenced and then we 40 00:01:30,003 --> 00:01:32,226 remove the deer and pigs and non native 41 00:01:32,226 --> 00:01:34,059 trees will remove and then plant 42 00:01:34,059 --> 00:01:36,281 natives , the various , uh , threatened 43 00:01:36,281 --> 00:01:38,448 endangered species or listed species . 44 00:01:38,448 --> 00:01:40,910 We would say we've got various programs 45 00:01:40,919 --> 00:01:43,389 to help them out or figure out what the 46 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,733 problem is with that species . So a lot , 47 00:01:45,733 --> 00:01:47,789 we do a lot of population monitoring 48 00:01:47,789 --> 00:01:50,260 the bats , sea turtles . Uh , we've got 49 00:01:50,269 --> 00:01:52,436 endangered snail species and butterfly 50 00:01:52,436 --> 00:01:54,959 species and endangered orchids and 51 00:01:55,150 --> 00:01:57,206 several endangered tree species . So 52 00:01:57,206 --> 00:01:59,519 we've got quite a bit . They're here , 53 00:01:59,529 --> 00:02:01,640 they're really special . They're what 54 00:02:01,650 --> 00:02:04,089 make the Marianas such a great place to 55 00:02:04,099 --> 00:02:04,470 work .