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Right so that's the the terrible approximation of West Virginia and then you know if we've got say roughly Ohio and then Kentucky's getting kind of short shift here so this is where the bank is we know that the big hibernacula for bats are in you know this part of West Virginia we know there's another one in Ohio and then we know there's some more kind of scattered around in Pennsylvania and one of the things we know is that the bats that are using you know this part of the world right where our bat bank is we know that some of them are actually even going as far as Kentucky so so we know that bats from here are migrating all over the place in smaller hibernacula in Ohio so we know that our bat bank is connecting at least four or five other hibernacula and that's Based on data from state record reports so it this area it is truly a good area to have a bank it's a biologically important area it connects a number of hibernacula any bats that are born and raised here can help repopulate parts of Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio and Kentucky so it really is a good Nexus point for bats that we're protecting to spread back out and repopulate after whiteness syndrome deep Leeds populations.
