gram; and (3) monitoring population levels and 

 habitat quality. A new Recovery Team is being 

 formed (J. M. Engel personal communication). 



Other management needs include protection 

 of the summer riparian environment (Martin 

 1973, Humphrey 1978). 



The majority of the species winters in public- 

 ly owned caves, but many private caves are also 

 used (R. K. LaVal personal communication). 

 Public aquisition of certain of the latter, including 

 four in Missouri and one in West Virginia, is being 

 sought at present (R. LaVal personal communica- 

 tion, J. Rawson personal communication). 



Table 2 lists pertinent information on pub- 

 licly owned wintering caves. 



Dr. Tom Kunz (Recovery Team) 



Department of Biology 



Boston University 



2 Cummington 



Boston, Massachusetts 02215 



Dr. Don Wilson (Recovery Team) 

 National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory 

 National Museum of Natural History 

 Washington, D.C. 20560 



Dr. Merlin Tuttle (Recovery Team) 

 Vertebrate Division 

 Milwaukee Public Museum 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 



AUTHORITIES 



J. T. Brady (Recovery Team) 



Biologist 



U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 



210 N. 12th Street, Room 853 



St. Louis, MO 63101 



J. B. Cope 



Joseph Moore Museum 

 Earlham College 

 Richmond, IN 47374 



J. M. Engel 



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Federal Building, Fort Snelling 

 Twin Cities, MN 55111 



S. R. Humphrey 

 Florida State Museum 

 Museum Road 

 Gainesville, FL 32611 



R. K. LaVal (Recovery Team Leader) 

 Missouri Department of Conservation 

 Fish and Wildlife Research Center 

 1110 College Avenue Columbia, 

 Columbia, MO 65201 



R. Z. Mumford 



Dept. of Forestry and Conservation 



Purdue University 



Lafayette, IN 47904 



A. Richter 



Joseph Moore Museum 

 Earlham College 

 Richmond, IN 47374 



PREPARER'S COMMENTS 



None. 



Table 2. Ownership of caves, Critical Habitat, and 



recent (1975) population estimates for Indiana bat 



caves (Humphrey 1978, Richter et al. 1978). 



[F=Federal, P=Private, S=State, CH=Critical Habitat.] 



