The Moran State Park manager now has his own custom-built Bat Cave equipped with a state of the art infrared bat-cam, and even a robin standing watch outside.
But before you go imagining Jim Schuh zooming along in a glossy black Bat-mobile, endangering the local wildlife – the new building is an experimental bat nursery designed for birthing and nursing baby bats.
A colony of 50 to 150 rare, Long-Eared Myotis bats has been raising its pups in the rafters of the 75-year old park manager’s office for years now.

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Commissioners were wary of a bid that came in more than $100,000 beneath proposals by three Orcas Island firms. But…

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Builders vying for the contract to construct the new Deer Harbor fire station waited intently as the board of fire…

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Orcas real estate sales appear to be on the rise: not meteoric, but plodding uphill slow and steady.
Although the data differs due to varying methods of calculation, statistics point to a general trend of increasing sales.
An April report by the Orcas Island Association of Realtors put the total dollar amount of first quarter sales for 2010 at roughly $8 million, up from $5 million in 2009.

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Thanks to generous community support, it looks like Orcas Rec will continue running… and jumping, swimming, and playing this year….

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