Flying Blind: One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats

by Don Mitchell

When Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell was approached by a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department about tracking endangered Indiana bats on his 150-acre farm in Vermont's picturesque Champlain Valley, Mitchell's relationship with bats--and with government--could be characterized as distrustful, at best.

But the flying rats, as Mitchell initially thinks of them, launched him on a series of improvements to his land...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603585206
• ISBN13: 9781603585200
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"