After winter storms kill palm trees, rushing to remove them could ruin Austin bat habitats

After winter storms kill palm trees, rushing to remove them could ruin Austin bat habitats
Mike Marut
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"We could say, roughly, there may be 14,000 or 15,000 palm trees in the greater Austin area, and again, I'm a little bit more optimistic that maybe not up to 90% did not die," Lisa Killander, an arborist and project manager with Austin Public Works said. "I'm thinking now it's going to be less than that."
The freeze also killed thousands of bats in Austin. Austin Bat Refuge founders Lee Mackenzie and Dianne Odegard said they saw at least 4,000 bats fall from under bridges after thawing out. They estimate only 1,200 of them were alive and able to be taken to the refuge's flight cage for rehabilitation. Of those, only about 600 survived. Even fewer are able to get back into the wild again. Odegard is still watching over them in what she calls her "field hospital."

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