Prepared By: Joanna M. Burgar, Phd Environmental Studies, University of Victoria Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia [email protected]

Prepared By: Joanna M. Burgar, Phd Environmental Studies, University of Victoria Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia Joburgar@Gmail.Com

Prepared by: Joanna M. Burgar, PhD Environmental Studies, University of Victoria Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia [email protected]

Prepared for: Alberta Environment & Parks Fish & Wildlife Policy #203, 111-54th St. Edson, Alberta T7E 1T2

Suggested Citation: Burgar, J.M. 2019. North American Bat Monitoring Program, Alberta 2018. Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta, Canada.

Cover Illustration: Myotis spp. hibernating in Cadomin Cave © Joanna M Burgar

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Executive Summary Nine species of bat occur in Alberta with at least five species considered to be susceptible to population decline due to either disease (white-nose syndrome; WNS) or fatalities at wind energy facilities. Since 2015 Alberta has been a part of the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) to gather data on current provincial bat distributions and relative abundances, predominantly through passive and mobile acoustic surveys. In 2018 15 NABat grid cells were acoustically surveyed, with 5 new grid cells surveyed (Peace and Red Deer North Saskatchewan Regions). Between one and four detectors surveyed each grid cell with a total of 276 nights of passive acoustic surveys and 13 nights of mobile acoustic surveys. For the passive surveys, sites were surveyed a mean of 18.4 nights (range of 5-30 nights).

There were a total of 16,603 bat call sequences recorded during the passive surveys, with just over half (8509 or 52%) identified to species/species group. The majority (36%) of bat call sequences were identified as Lasiurus cinereus, followed by Myotis lucifugus (27%) and the Myotis 40k species group (17%). During the mobile surveys 306 bat call sequences were recorded, with over half (177 or 58%) identified to species / species group, predominantly attributed to the EPFU-LANO species group. The majority of the NABat passive acoustic surveys occurred prior to 1 July 2018 and mean nightly bat activity was highly variable, both in time and space. This was also the case when drilling down to identified species / species groups and detectors with some species having discrepancies in mean nightly activity between detectors within the same grid cell (Figures 6 through 20).

At the provincial scale, generally bat activity was positively correlated with maximum nightly temperature, increasing distance to human footprint and vegetated types of human footprint. Bat activity was lower in all land cover types, compared to forest and decreased as the distance to roads increased, suggesting that bats use roads as travel corridors. Lastly, bat activity had a positive curvilinear relationship with distance to water suggesting that bats prefer the interface between water and vegetation but after a certain distance away from water bat activity drops.

These findings have serious implications for the conservation and maintenance of Alberta’s bat populations with the increasing and emerging threats of WNS and wind energy development. In Alberta NABat surveys have been conducted in five of the six provincial Natural Regions. Future surveys should aim to fill gaps in the provincial distribution of surveys, particularly in the Parklands and Canadian Shield Natural Regions. As well, surveys should be concentrated in areas where populations are expected to decline, from either WNS (potential threat from south-west as WNS expands out from Washington State) or wind fatalities (wind belt of southern Alberta). Acoustic surveys have occurred between 1-4 times at each grid cell; once 2019 surveys are completed there will likely be data to start investigating provincial trends for potentially at-risk species, such as L. cinereus and M. lucifugus. In addition, continued searching for winter hibernaculum and maternity colonies of species susceptible to WNS should be a priority.

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Table of Contents Executive Summary ...... i Introduction ...... 1 Methods ...... 4 Study Design & Survey Methods ...... 4 Bat Call Analysis ...... 7 Weather Data ...... 7 Analysis ...... 7 Results ...... 9 Discussion...... 26 Acknowledgements ...... 27 Literature Cited ...... 27 Appendix A - Grid 95946 Survey Results ...... 28 Appendix B - Grid 96710 Survey Results ...... 33 Appendix C - Grid 97466 Survey Results ...... 38 Appendix D - Grid 121185 Survey Results...... 44 Appendix E - Grid 121190 Survey Results ...... 49 Appendix F - Grid 77606 Survey Results ...... 54 Appendix G - Grid 78372 Survey Results ...... 60 Appendix H - Grid 75316 Survey Results...... 66 Appendix I - Grid 52371 Survey Results ...... 72 Appendix J - Grid 52372 Survey Results ...... 78 Appendix K - Grid 53137 Survey Results ...... 84 Appendix L - Grid 92108 Survey Results ...... 92 Appendix M - Grid 143416 Survey Results ...... 98 Appendix N - Grid 56171 & 56172 Survey Results ...... 103

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Introduction Nine species of bat occur in Alberta (Table 1). A tenth species, Myotis californicus, is suspected of occurring, likely along the Rocky Mountains as it has been observed just across the border in south- eastern British Columbia (Cori Lausen, pers comm) and has been detected acoustically in Waterton Lakes National Park (Burgar 2017a, Burgar 2018) and possibly in the foothills, near Switzer (Burgar 2018). Of confirmed bat species in Alberta two (Myotis lucifugus and M. septentrionalis), were recently listed as Endangered on Schedule 1 of the Species At Risk Act due to the impending threat of the fungal disease white-nose syndrome (WNS; Environment Canada 2015). Three additional species (Lasiurus borealis, L. cinereus, and Lasionycteris noctivagans) may experience population declines due to increasing wind development.

As of October 2018 WNS has been detected in 33 states and seven provinces (Figure 1). The fungus that causes WNS, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has been confirmed in in an additional 3 states (https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/). While only confirmed as far west as Manitoba in Canada, the two confirmed occurrences in Washington State puts south-western British Columbia within the 250 km setback buffer. If not already present in western Canada WNS is expected to occur within western Canada generally, and Alberta specifically, within a decade. The majority of wind energy developments linked to bat fatalities in Canada occur in south-western Alberta and it is projected that L. cinereus populations may decline as much as 90% across North America over the next five decades (Frick et al. 2017).

In response to these threats, in 2014 the province of Alberta initiated a pilot project to expand the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) into Alberta to document current provincial bat distributions and indices of abundance at multiple scales. NABat’s purpose is to create a continent-wide program to monitor bats at local to rangewide scales (Loeb et al. 2015; https://www.nabatmonitoring.org/). Since 2015 Alberta has conducted NABat monitoring through acoustic surveys (mobile and passive) at multiple locations across the province, including within three national parks. In addition, Alberta has been conducting annual monitoring at the largest known winter hibernaculum and efforts are also focusing on locating new roosts —another mandate of NABat is monitoring winter hibernaculum and summer maternity colonies.

For consistent bat species identification across sites, an Alberta based bat call automation model was developed (Burgar 2017b) and has been used to analyse provincial bat acoustic data. Myotis species can be difficult to distinguish acoustically; one of the five confirmed Myotis species occurs province wide while four have some geographic separation that can aid in identification of Myotis calls based on geography (table 1, maps in Burgar 2018). Myotis evotis occurs in the southern half of the province while M. septentrionalis occurs in the northern half; M. volans is poorly documented and likely only occurs in the Rocky Mountain and Grassland natural regions; and M. ciliolabrum occurs in the badland

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks habitats of the Red Deer, South Saskatchewan, and Milk River valleys and adjacent coulees (Cory Olson, pers comm).

Figure 1. Map showing extent and spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS) as of October 2018.

Table 1. Bat species known, and likely, to occur in Alberta.

Common name - NABat Scientific name Code Distribution Likely Occurs Big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus EPFU Province-wide Eastern red bat Lasiurus borealis LABO Province-wide Hoary bat Lasiurus cinereus LACI Province-wide Silver-haired bat Lasionycteris noctivagans LANO Province-wide California myotis Myotis californicus MYCA Unconfirmed Mountains Western small-footed myotis Myotis ciliolabrum MYCI South Long-eared myotis Myotis evotis MYEV South Little brown bat Myotis lucifigus MYLU Province-wide Northern myotis Myotis septentrionalis MYSE North Long-legged myotis Myotis volans MYVO Unclear Mountains & Grasslands

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This report summarizes the findings of the NABat surveys conducted and submitted to Alberta Environment and Parks in 2018. The methods provide details on the study design, processing of the calls through Alberta eBat (Burgar 2017b), and statistics summarising NABat bat activity within the province. The results provide overall findings for each survey, figures depicting mean nightly bat activity per passive survey site, and highlights key factors influencing provincial bat activity. The discussion touches on analysis limitations and future improvements, as well as implications of the findings in the context of wind energy development and WNS. Appendices A through N provide comprehensive site specific survey details (site map, datasheet, environmental and site details, graph and tabular output of recorded bat call sequences per detector/night/site).

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Methods

Study Design & Survey Methods Four regions (Upper Athabasca, Peace, Red Deer North Saskatchewan, and South Saskatchewan River) and three National Parks (Jasper, Waterton Lakes, and Wood Buffalo) contributed monitoring data to NABat in 2018. All sites conducted acoustic surveys at stationary points (passive surveys); mobile acoustic surveys (mobile surveys, along transects) were conducted in the three National Parks and a grid cell in the Upper Athabasca Region. NABat uses a probability-based sampling design to ensure valid statistical inference of bat population trends over the continent (Loeb et al. 2015). To do so NABat adopted a grid-based finite-area sampling frame with 10 km by 10 km (100 km2) grid cell sample units. All 100 km2 cells were assigned a spatially balanced and randomized ordering using the generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) survey design algorithm. The benefit of the GRTS design is its flexibility and robustness to adding/dropping survey sites as resources and logistical conditions change over time. Alberta comprises 6422 full grid cells and 437 partial cells; the 2018 NABat surveys successfully sampled 15 of these grid cells, comprising four of Alberta’s Natural Regions (Figure 2). Each full grid cell sampling unit is further broken down into four quadrants.

Passive surveys consisted of deploying one to four detectors within each grid cell, preferably with one in each quadrant. NABat recommends conducting passive surveys over multiple consecutive days, with a four night minimum, prior to the emergence of volant young. Mobile surveys consisted of mounting detectors on moving vehicles and driving transects within the cell (Figure 3). NABat recommends driving each (25- 48 km) transect at least twice in one week and, where applicable, conducting both the passive and mobile surveys during the same week. To optimize trend detection NABat recommends conducting acoustic surveys of the same grid cells annually, for a minimum of five years. See Loeb et al. (2015) for comprehensive details on the NABat sampling design and survey protocols and Appendices A-N for survey details specific to each grid cell.

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Figure 2. Surveys were conducted at 15 of the 18 NABat sampling grids in Alberta in 2018: in the Boreal, Foothills, Grassland and Rocky Mountain Natural Regions of Alberta.

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Figure 3. An example of a mobile route surveyed as part of NABat. The mobile transect was surveyed more than once and during the same week as concurrent passive acoustic surveys.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Bat Call Analysis For the passive surveys, grid cells were surveyed using either full spectrum (WAV; Song Meter SM2+ BAT or SM4 BAT; Wildlife Acoustics Inc, MA USA) or frequency division zero-cross (ZC; AnaBat Express; Titley Scientific, MO USA) detectors with omni-directional microphones. Mobile surveys were recorded using both full spectrum and frequency division recorders with directional microphones, mounted on motor vehicles. Detectors recorded in either WAV or ZC format onto SD cards. See Appendices A-N for additional hardware details for each survey.

Once recorded, files were processed using Alberta eBat (Burgar 2017b; www.albertaebat.ca/). For full spectrum (WAV) and zero-cross (ZC) files, Alberta eBat is able to process and automatically identify multiple nights of recordings per site. A survey night begins at sunset and ends at sunrise on the following date; for example, all calls recorded with date-time stamps between 28-06-2018 23:00:00 and 29-06:2018 04:59:00 are considered the survey night of 28-06-2018. At this time Anabat Express output files (ZCA) are not able to be processed directly through Alberta eBat and require the first step of converting the ZCA file to nightly ZC files using the converter function in AnaLook (ver 4.1t, written by Chris Corben, http://www.hoarybat.com, accessed June 2015).

Weather Data Alberta eBat uses the spatial coordinates and the dates to find the nearest Environment Canada weather station and extracts the nightly mean, minimum and maximum values for temperature (°C), relative humidity (%) and wind speed (km/hr). Alberta eBat uses the dates embedded within the filenames of WAVand ZC files to determine the survey night, and combines this with user defined spatial coordinates to extract nightly weather for a survey. For example, the spatial coordinates for a Switzer survey (NABat grid cell 97466; 53.4724, -117.7958) are closest to the Environment Canada weather station of Jasper Warden. Alberta eBat uses either the filename dates or user specified dates to extract the appropriate weather values from Jasper Warden for surveys within this grid cell. Surveys conducted using Anabat Express that require conversion from ZCA to ZC files do not contain filenames with a date- time stamp in a format readable by Alberta eBat and require user to replace the dates using the “Bulk edit dates” feature and then manually retrieving the weather data. The weather data are downloaded from Alberta eBat as part of the summary output csv.

Analysis Additional site data were extracted from a Geographic Information System (GIS; ArcGIS 10.3.1 ESRI) using publicly available Government of Alberta data. Analysis and visualization of the acoustic data — summary statistics, graphics and the regression—were carried out using R version 3.4.3 (R Core Team 2017). Analysis predominantly consisted of aggregating the acoustic data by either grid cell or Natural Region and providing output in tabular or graphic form, similar to previous reports. In addition, the passive acoustic survey data were analysed to determine if there were factors that influenced overall bat activity. Factors included environmental and extracted GIS data and comprised: Natural Region (categorical variable with the reference set to Boreal), Environmental (maximum temperature, humidity,

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks wind speed and lunar phase), Human Footprint (categorical variable grouped based on the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute [ABMI] 2014 data, reference set to No Disturbance), Land Cover (categorical variable grouped based on ABMI 2010 data, reference set to Forest), Water (categorical variable grouped based on Government of Alberta hydrology data, reference set to No Water), and Road (ordinal scale based on Government of Alberta road data, with 1 set to Road-Paved-Divided and 8 set to No Road). The distance from each detector to the nearest Human Footprint, Water, and Road feature was also calculated and included as a numeric variable in its associated group. There was also a squared distance to water variable to account for a possible non-linear relationship. For Human Footprint, Water and Road, if the distance from the site to the feature was >200 m, the site was not considered to have a feature; e.g., the categorical designation was “No Disturbance” for sites >200 m from human footprint. See Appendices A-N for site details for each detector.

To run the regression, the data were first checked to determine if it best fit a Poisson or negative binomial distribution by running null models using either distribution, with and without a random factor using the glmmTMB package (Magnusson et al. 2017). Models were ranked by Akaike Information Criterion (AIC ) and the model with the lowest AIC was determined the best candidate model: the one fit with a negative binomial distribution and considering grid cell as a random factor, to account for multiple detectors within a grid cell. Factors were included systematically once the model structure was determined. Candidate models had total bat call sequences as the response variable regressed against various combinations of covariates from each group, selecting the best model in each group before adding more complexity. All ordinal and numeric covariates were standardized (scaled to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1) to allow comparison between effect sizes. Each “top” sub-model was then ranked, using AIC, against the other “top” sub-models to determine the overall “top”. The final top model was the one with the lowest AIC score, which was also significantly different from the next ranked model based on a Chi square test with α set to 0.05.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Results In 2018 15 NABat grid cells were surveyed: two grid cells were added in the Peace Region and three in Red Deer North Saskatchewan. Three grid cells previously surveyed were not surveyed this year: two in the Lower Athabasca Region and one in the Peace Region (Figure 2). Between one and four detectors surveyed each grid cell with a total of 276 nights of passive acoustic surveys and 13 nights of mobile acoustic surveys. For the passive surveys, sites were surveyed a mean of 18.4 nights (range of 5-30 nights).

Table 2. The Upper Athabasca Region (UAR), Peace Region (PR), Red Deer North Saskatchewan (RDNS), South Saskatchewan River (SSR), Jasper National Park (JNP), Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP), and Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) contributed acoustic monitoring data to NABat in 2018, predominantly through passive acoustic surveys at stationary monitoring stations but four areas also conducted mobile surveys along transects.

Recording Recording # files (bat # bat call Grid Cell # detectors start date end date call + noise) sequences UAR 95946 2 27/06/2018 02/07/2018 165 85 96710 3 19/06/2018 25/06/2018 916 904 97466 3 04/07/2018 12/07/2018 1639 1638 Mobile 23 23 PR 121185 2 29/06/2018 03/07/2018 1229 433 121190 4 21/06/2018 27/06/2018 2018 1893 RDNS 77606 1 11/07/2018 31/07/2018 267 266 78372 1 12/07/2018 31/07/2018 390 390 75316 1 11/07/2018 23/07/2018 519 514 SSR 52371 3 08/06/2018 17/06/2018 6924 3656 52372 2 18/06/2018 02/07/2018 4128 2956 53137 2 08/06/2018 30/06/2018 948 939 JNP 92108 4 18/06/2018 26/06/2018 878 872 Mobile 129 129 WBNP 143416 2 07/06/2018 14/06/2018 624 624 Mobile 51 47 WLNP 56172 1 29/06/2018 30/06/2018 649 81 56171 2 22/06/2018 27/06/2018 2540 938 Mobile 181 104

There were a total of 306 bat call sequences recorded during the mobile surveys, with over half (177 or 58%) identified to species / species group (Tables 2 and 3; Figure 4). The majority were attributed to the EPFU-LANO species group. There were a total of 16,603 bat call sequences recorded during the passive surveys, with just over half (8509 or 52%) identified to species/species group (Tables 2 and 3; Figure 4). The majority (36%) of bat call sequences were identified as Lasiurus cinereus, followed by Myotis lucifugus (27%) and the Myotis 40k species group (17%). The remaining 20% of identified call sequences belonged to Eptesicus fuscus, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus borealis or fell within the EPFU-LANO

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks or LABO-MYLU species group complexes. Two call sequences were identified as belonging to the MYEV- MYSE species group and being detected in Jasper it may have been either species. The two call sequences attributed to Myotis californicus from Red Deer North Saskatchewan and Wood Buffalo National Park are unlikely to be correct - the calls were of low confidence. The four call sequences identified as M. californicus within the Upper Athabasca Region were recorded in Switzer (Foothills, close to the Rocky Mountains); there is the small possibility that these might be calls from transient M. californicus individuals.

Figure 4. Total bat call sequences for bat call sequences identified to species / species group during 2018 NABat passive (top) and mobile (bottom) surveys, broken down by natural region.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table 3. Total bat call sequences recorded by species/species group for each of the passive and mobile surveys. Refer to Table 1 for species names; unk = unknown.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Passive Surveys UAR 95946 2 4 23 1 2 14 2 37 96710 9 21 59 23 170 208 414 97466 12 7 16 15 9 51 765 174 4 585 PR 121185 1 1 37 78 1 18 24 273 121190 105 89 210 39 53 1397 RDNS 77606 9 23 11 62 18 11 90 19 23 78372 9 14 8 28 25 83 170 15 38 75316 14 29 13 56 41 139 129 12 1 80 SSR 52371 170 16 146 8 1 345 1435 LR 5 52372 63 1 99 417 14 1 251 2110 53137 5 1 7 40 1 25 183 677 JNP 92108 9 74 18 15 15 30 598 33 2 78 WBNP 143416 82 3 70 2 3 27 334 41 1 61 WLNP 56172 2 1 3 5 18 52 56171 4 1 34 261 6 38 594 Mobile Surveys Edson 1 5 1 16 JNP 1 15 19 4 10 24 29 1 26 WBNP 2 19 3 4 19 WLNP 1 6 20 3 9 68

The majority of the NABat passive acoustic surveys occurred prior to 1 July 2018 and mean nightly bat activity was highly variable, both in time and space (Table 2, Figure 5). This was also the case when drilling down to identified species / species groups and detectors with some species having discrepancies in mean nightly activity between detectors within the same grid cell (Figures 6 through 20).

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Figure 5. Mean (±SE) nightly bat activity for all bat call sequences recorded as part of a 2018 NABat passive acoustic survey, by Natural Region. The vertical gray line denotes 10 July 2018, the date most young of the year are expected to be volant in Alberta.

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Figure 6. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 95946 (UAR).

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Figure 7. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 96710 (UAR).

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Figure 8. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 97466 (UAR).

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Figure 9. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 121185 (PR).

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Figure 11. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 77606 (RDNS).

Figure 12. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 78372 (RDNS).

Figure 13. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 75316 (RDNS).

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Figure 14. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 52371 (SSR).

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Figure 15. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 52372 (SSR).

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Figure 16. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 53137 (SSR).

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Figure 18. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 143416 (WBNP).

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Figure 19. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 56171 (WLNP).

Figure 20. Mean (±SE) bat activity for each detector at grid cell 56172 (WLNP).

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks The top model to describe the factors influencing overall bat activity comprised variables with all covariates additively (Figure 21). Higher temperatures and lower humidity increased bat activity. Bat activity also increased as the distance to human footprint increased. However, compared to sites >200 m away from human footprint, bat activity was higher at sites within Residential and Transportation footprints. Sub-categories for these footprints mainly comprised rural areas and vegetated verges, suggesting treed habitats. Bat activity was lower at land cover sites that were not forest. Bat activity was higher as the distance to roads decreased, suggesting that bats use these linear features as travel corridors. There was a curvilinear association between bat activity and distance to water suggesting that there is likely a threshold distance where bat activity is high in proximity to water, after which bat activity drops off as distance to water increases.

Figure 21. The factors influencing bat activity in Alberta. Standardized estimates (± SE) show the relative effect of each factor, compared to the other factors, on bat activity. Those above 0 (the gray line) are positively associated with bat activity while those below are negatively associated; there is no association for factors with confidence intervals that overlap 0. Colours indicate factor type: natural region (NR), environmental (Env), human footprint (HF), land cover (LC), water and road.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Discussion This report presents the 2018 findings for Alberta’s NABat acoustic surveys. Similar to previous years the majority of identified bat call sequences were either L. cinereus or M. lucifugus. This is particularly a concern as L. cinereus was predominantly recorded in the Grassland Natural Region, an area with a concentration of wind energy facilities. While encouraging that the relative abundance of M. lucifugus remains high, the majority of calls were again in the Rocky Mountains, which may be a concern as it is likely that when WNS does arrive in Alberta it will be from the west of the Rocky Mountains. These findings have serious implications for the conservation and maintenance of Alberta’s bat populations with the increasing and emerging threats of WNS and wind energy development.

The limited number of calls identified to other Myotis species and the large number of unknown species identification is consistent with past years. While this may be an artefact of sampling it could also be due to the lower accuracy of Alberta eBat for these species (Burgar 2017b), highlighting the importance of manual verification of bat call sequences and the need for improvement to the species identification model by increasing the number of Myotis species call sequences in the training reference library. Researchers with confirmed “gold-standard” acoustic reference calls should be canvassed for additional calls to continually update and improve the model.

With increased NABat surveys comes increased time to compile and analyse the data. Processing acoustic files has become more efficient with the increased functionality of Alberta eBat, including processing of multiple nights and up to 1000 files at a time. However, the extra step to convert AnaBat Express ZCA files to ZC files for nightly uploads and the overall volume of acoustic files to process is not a small feat. In addition, Alberta eBat does require some training to use to ensure data are correctly labelled for correct processing. As more NABat surveys are conducted workshops could be held for biologists with NABat data to allow processing by those who have collected the data, as this would lessen the work for any one individual and may also minimise errors that are prone to occur when the person analysing the data was not the one who collected it. This would also provide biologists with species identifications right away, and allow them to verify manually as necessary.

In Alberta NABat surveys have been conducted in five of the six provincial Natural Regions. Future surveys should aim to fill gaps in the provincial distribution of surveys, particularly in the Parklands and Canadian Shield Natural Regions. As well, surveys should be concentrated in areas where populations are expected to decline, from either WNS (potential threat from south-west as WNS expands out from Washington State) or wind fatalities (wind belt of southern Alberta). Acoustic surveys have occurred between 1-4 times at each grid cell; once 2019 surveys are completed there will likely be data to start investigating provincial trends for potentially at-risk species, such as L. cinereus and M. lucifugus. In addition, continued searching for winter hibernaculum and maternity colonies of species susceptible to WNS should be a priority.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Acknowledgements JB would like to thank Lisa Wilkinson for her continued support of the provincial NABat program, Cori Lausen for donating reference calls, Cory Olson for providing insight into species distributions, and the provincial and federal biologists for collecting and contributing NABat data: Lisa Wilkinson (AEP - UAR), Natalka Melnycky (AEP - PR), Jason Unruh (AEP - RDNS), Sandi Robertson (AEP - SSR), Saakje Hazenberg (PC - JNP), Sharon Irwin (PC - WBNP), and Helena Mahoney (PC - WLNP).

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Appendix A - Grid 95946 Survey Results

Figure A1. Grid 95946 - Upper Athabasca Region: Edson2.

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Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Lisa Wilkinson

Site: Edson2 Number of Detectors Deployed: 2 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:19 ID: Sunrise: 04:17

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 05:13 Moonrise: 21:50

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 95946

Site Details Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Location – Latitude 53.5455 53.5799 53.5663 Location – Longitude -116.4094 -116.4092 -116.3211 Habitat Type urban urban industrial Feature Sampled meadow golf course cleared area General Description of Deployment meadow near river golf course, open with cleared area in young small water bodies mixedwood forest, near compressor station Recording Details Date Deployed 27/06/2018 not deployed 28/06/2018 Date Recovered 03/07/2018 not deployed 03/07/2018 Date Recording Started 27/06/2018 28/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 02/07/2018 02/07/2018 Time Recording Started 23:14:22 23:50:17 Time Recording Stopped 01:17:54 02:55:32 Moon Phase Start Full Full Moon Phase End Waning gibbous Waning gibbous Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Microphone Type SMM-U1, SMX-U1 SMM-U1, SMX-U1 Recording Mode real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum Gain Settings 0 dB 0 dB Signal-to-noise Ratio 18 SNR 18 SNR Frequency Band Filters fs/12 fs/12 Trigger Window Length 2 s 2 s Maximum File Length 15 s 15 s Calibration Method None None Microphone Height (m) 3 3 Microphone Orientation down down Weatherproofing Type none none Distance to Clutter (m) minimum 50 m minimum 50 m * AnaBat Express unit also deployed, alongside the Song Meter Detector #1; firmware version V5506L, revision 23850, data division rate = 8, sensitivity = 115.

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Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 27/06/2018 14.1 10.3 12.4 28/06/2018 13.5 10.8 11.9 29/06/2018 13.5 10.8 11.9 30/06/2018 13.1 7.7 10.2 01/07/2018 11 8.1 9.3 02/07/2018 11 8.1 9.3 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 27/06/2018 84 51 70.7 28/06/2018 84 60 70.7 29/06/2018 93 73 84.5 30/06/2018 94 91 92.3 01/07/2018 94 91 92.3 02/07/2018 82 69 77.2 Wind Speed (km/h) 27/06/2018 14 2 7.2 28/06/2018 7 1 3.7 29/06/2018 7 2 4.0 30/06/2018 6 2 4.0 01/07/2018 6 3 4.2 02/07/2018 5 3 4.2

GIS Extracted Variables Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Natural Region Foothills Foothills Foothills Natural Sub-Region Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Land Cover Group Shrub Grassland Shrub Grassland Exposed Developed Water Land Cover Type Agriculture Water Developed Land Cover Code 120 20 34 Human Footprint Group Agriculture Residential Energy Mining Recreation Human Footprint Type Cultivation Other Disturbed Pipeline (Crop/Pasture/Bare Vegetation Ground) Distance to HF (m) 0 0 9 Road Type ROAD- ROAD-GRAVEL-2L ROAD- UNCLASSIFIED UNIMPROVED Road Scale 5 3 6 Distance to Road (m) 46 30 36 Water Type RIV-MAJ LAKE-PER LAKE-RECUR Distance to Water (m) 135 6 872

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Figure A2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 95946.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table A1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 95946 – Upper Athabasca Region: Edson2.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Unit 1* 27/06/2018 2 1 1 5 28/06/2018 1 5 1 1 1 14 29/06/2018 4 4 2 1 6 30/06/2018 4 01/07/2018 1 2 02/07/2018 5 1 3 Unit 3 28/06/2018 1 1 29/06/2018 1 2 3 1 30/06/2018 3 2 1 01/07/2018 2 2 02/07/2018 1 * The number of call sequences per species / species group is the maximum number recorded on the Song Meter or the Anbat Express, rather than sum of the two detectors, in an attempt to avoid double counting call sequences.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix B - Grid 96710 Survey Results

Figure B1. Grid 96710 - Upper Athabasca Region: Edson1.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Lisa Wilkinson

Site: Edson1 Number of Detectors Deployed: 3 Sunset:Grid Cell 22:18 ID: Sunrise: 05:15

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 01:50 Moonrise: 12:43

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☒Y ☐N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 96710

Site Details Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Location – Latitude 53.6112 53.6056 53.5809 Location – Longitude -116.4855 -116.6004 -116.4585 Habitat Type urban urban industrial Feature Sampled hillside meadow wetland General Description of Deployment open grassy hillside, small meadow near overlooking small sparse mixedwood mature mixedwood wetlands, low shrubs nearby and lawn (house with bat house) Recording Details Date Deployed 19/06/2018 19/06/2018 19/06/2018 Date Recovered 26/06/2018 26/06/2018 26/06/2018 Date Recording Started 20/06/2018 20/06/2018 20/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 25/06/2018 25/06/2018 25/06/2018 Time Recording Started unknown unknown 23:42:30 Time Recording Stopped unknown unknown 03:13:37 Moon Phase Start First quarter First quarter First quarter Moon Phase End Full Full Full Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* AnaBat Express™ AnaBat Express™ Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Microphone Type SMM-U1, SMX-U1 Recording Mode real-time full spectrum Gain Settings 0 dB Signal-to-noise Ratio 18 SNR Frequency Band Filters fs/12 Trigger Window Length 2 s Maximum File Length 15 s Calibration Method None None None Microphone Height (m) 3 3 3 Microphone Orientation down down down Weatherproofing Type none none none Distance to Clutter (m) minimum 50 m minimum 50 m minimum 50 m * AnaBat Express firmware version V5506L, revision 23850, data division rate = 8, sensitivity = 115. Timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 19/06/2018 16.7 7.7 11.7 20/06/2018 20.8 12.1 16.2 21/06/2018 20.7 14.8 15.5 22/06/2018 17.8 14.8 15.8 23/06/2018 18.6 13.3 15.3 24/06/2018 17.5 13.8 15.2 25/06/2018 17.5 13.1 14.9 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 19/06/2018 94 60 78.5 20/06/2018 93 50 77.5 21/06/2018 85 72 77.8 22/06/2018 95 72 80.8 23/06/2018 98 72 83.3 24/06/2018 100 84 91.2 25/06/2018 100 79 91.2 Wind Speed (km/h) 19/06/2018 5 4 4.5 20/06/2018 8 0 4.3 21/06/2018 10 1 4.8 22/06/2018 15 8 9.8 23/06/2018 26 8 11.7 24/06/2018 26 3 11.7 25/06/2018 9 0 5.8

GIS Extracted Variables Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Natural Region Foothills Foothills Foothills Natural Sub-Region Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Land Cover Group Shrub Grassland Shrub Grassland Exposed Developed Water Land Cover Type Agriculture Shrubland Developed Land Cover Code 120 50 34 Human Footprint Group Agriculture Energy Mining Transportation Human Footprint Type Cultivation Pipeline Road - Hard Surface (Crop/Pasture/Bare Ground) Distance to HF (m) 0 56 0 Road Type ROAD- ROAD- ROAD-PAVED- UNCLASSIFIED UNIMPROVED UNDIV-2L Road Scale 5 6 2 Distance to Road (m) 160 147 9 Water Type LAKE-PER LAKE-PER LAKE-PER Distance to Water (m) 1362 2337 761

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Figure B2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 96710.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table B1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 96710 – Upper Athabasca Region: Edson1.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Unit 1* 19/06/2018 2 1 2 3 20/06/2018 1 1 2 2 21/06/2018 1 1 6 22/06/2018 1 2 5 23/06/2018 3 1 7 24/06/2018 2 4 1 12 25/06/2018 1 2 Unit 2* 19/06/2018 13 11 20/06/2018 3 1 3 29 69 21/06/2018 3 1 3 65 56 22/06/2018 2 1 20 40 23/06/2018 1 2 7 38 24/06/2018 1 5 1 35 42 25/06/2018 1 Unit 3 20/06/2018 2 6 1 15 8 15 21/06/2018 3 2 4 2 86 2 28 22/06/2018 2 2 6 2 24 6 16 23/06/2018 1 1 12 1 30 9 27 24/06/2018 1 14 3 14 9 34 Mobile 28/06/2018 0 0 5 1 16 * The number of call sequences per species / species group is the maximum number recorded on the Song Meter or the Anbat Express, rather than sum of the two detectors, in an attempt to avoid double counting call sequences

Mobile transect - approx. 54.69 latitude, -116.33 longitude Route description – begin at Schlick Rd (Hwy 16), east on Grande Prairie Tr, south to 63rd, end at airport Distance - 23 km Date – June 28, 2018 Surveyor – Lisa Wilkinson Time – 23:15-00:15 Unit- walkabout (AnaBat) Temperature – 14C Wind - 2 Cloud – 80% Moon – full (not visible because of clouds)

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix C - Grid 97466 Survey Results

Figure C1. Grid 97466 - Upper Athabasca Region: Switzer.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Lisa Wilkinson

Site: Switzer Number of Detectors Deployed: 3 Sunset:Grid Cell 22:16 ID: Sunrise: 05:24

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 12:08 Moonrise: 01:04

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 97466

Site Details Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Location – Latitude 53.4728 53.5052 53.4724 Location – Longitude -117.7933 -117.8288 -117.7958 Habitat Type forest – mixedwood industrial forest - mixedwood Feature Sampled wetland clearing wetland General Description of Deployment on back deck, open area (used to be overlooking open fen overlooks small lake, gravel pit), surrounded surrounded by mature surrounded by mature by mature forest mixedwood forest Recording Details Date Deployed 04/07/2018 04/07/2018 04/07/2018 Date Recovered 13/07/2018 13/07/2018 13/07/2018 Date Recording Started 04/07/2018 04/07/2018 04/07/2018 Date Recording Stopped 13/07/2018 13/07/2018 13/07/2018 Time Recording Started 23:01:09 23:29:53 unknown Time Recording Stopped 04:26:50 04:45:45 unknown Moon Phase Start Last quarter Last quarter Last quarter Moon Phase End New New New Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Song Meter SM2Bat+™ AnaBat Express™ Microphone Type SMM-U1, SMX-U1 SMM-U1, SMX-U1 Recording Mode real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum Gain Settings 0 dB 0 dB Signal-to-noise Ratio 18 SNR 18 SNR Frequency Band Filters fs/12 fs/12 Trigger Window Length 2 s 2 s Maximum File Length 15 s 15 s Calibration Method None None None Microphone Height (m) 3 3 3 Microphone Orientation down down down Weatherproofing Type none none none Distance to Clutter (m) minimum 50 m minimum 50 m minimum 50 m * AnaBat Express also deployed alongside Detector #2; firmware version V5506L, revision 23850, data division rate = 8, sensitivity = 115. Timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 04/07/2018 10.9 8.8 9.4 05/07/2018 15.5 13 13.9 06/07/2018 15.5 13 13.9 07/07/2018 15.1 12.1 13.6 08/07/2018 12.4 7.8 9.7 09/07/2018 17.7 11.5 14.1 10/07/2018 17.7 11.5 14.1 11/07/2018 15.8 9.1 12.8 12/07/2018 16 13.4 14.1 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 04/07/2018 96 96 96.0 05/07/2018 91 83 86.7 06/07/2018 90 57 78.2 07/07/2018 82 64 75.0 08/07/2018 97 73 87.7 09/07/2018 97 73 87.7 10/07/2018 90 67 76.8 11/07/2018 90 67 76.8 12/07/2018 96 69 88.8 Wind Speed (km/h) 04/07/2018 8 3 5.0 05/07/2018 8 3 5.5 06/07/2018 11 3 7.7 07/07/2018 11 4 7.7 08/07/2018 9 4 5.0 09/07/2018 9 3 5.0 10/07/2018 9 4 5.8 11/07/2018 9 4 6.5 12/07/2018 8 4 6.5

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GIS Extracted Variables Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Natural Region Foothills Foothills Foothills Natural Sub-Region Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Lower Foothills Land Cover Group Exposed Developed Exposed Developed Forest Water Water Land Cover Type Developed Developed Coniferous Forest Land Cover Code 34 34 210 Human Footprint Group Residential Recreation Energy Mining Transportation Human Footprint Type Rural Mine Site Road - Vegetated Verge (Residential/Industrial) Distance to HF (m) 5 0 76 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED ROAD-UNIMPROVED ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 6 6 6 Distance to Road (m) 39 105 86 Water Type LAKE-PER LAKE-RECUR LAKE-PER Distance to Water (m) 22 1173 42

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Figure C2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 97466.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table C1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 97466 – Upper Athabasca Region: Switzer.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Unit 1 04/07/2018 3 53 11 10 05/07/2018 1 1 2 7 73 13 9 06/07/2018 6 4 9 5 137 15 22 07/07/2018 3 39 13 9 08/07/2018 2 4 1 21 11 10 09/07/2018 2 79 10 16 10/07/2018 2 55 7 23 11/07/2018 2 118 9 1 26 12/07/2018 1 7 164 9 2 30 Unit 2* 04/07/2018 1 1 05/07/2018 2 1 2 9 9 1 06/07/2018 1 1 2 1 1 1 07/07/2018 3 08/07/2018 1 09/07/2018 5 6 5 10/07/2018 2 1 11/07/2018 2 2 1 2 12/07/2018 1 3 4 2 2 Unit 3 04/07/2018 3 6 44 05/07/2018 11 2 5 50 06/07/2018 2 23 07/07/2018 1 5 37 08/07/2018 7 34 09/07/2018 1 1 2 9 63 10/07/2018 8 36 11/07/2018 1 8 47 12/07/2018 12 88 * The number of call sequences per species / species group is the maximum number recorded on the Song Meter or the Anbat Express, rather than sum of the two detectors, in an attempt to avoid double counting call sequences

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix D - Grid 121185 Survey Results

Figure D1. Grid 121185 - Peace Region: Hines Creek.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Natalka Melnycky

Site: Hines Creek Number of Detectors Deployed: 2 Sunset:Grid Cell 22:45 ID: Sunrise: 05:09

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 06:43 Moonrise: 23:41

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 121185

Site Details HinesCreek1* HinesCreek2 Location – Latitude 56.2368 56.2186 Location – Longitude -118.5006 -118.6302 Habitat Type Feature Sampled General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 29/06/2018 29/06/2018 Date Recovered 01/07/2018 04/07/2018 Date Recording Started 29/06/2018 29/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 01/07/2018 04/07/2018 Time Recording Started 21:58:30 16:31:38 Time Recording Stopped 17:34:43 08:30:07 Moon Phase Start Full Full Moon Phase End Waning gibbous Last quarter Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model** AnaBat Express™ AnaBat Express™ Microphone Type Recording Mode Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) * The AnaBat internal GPS may not have been reset at the new location - the ID of the AnaBats may be incorrect. ** AnaBat Express firmware version V5506L, revision 23850, data division rate = 8, sensitivity = 115. Timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 29/06/2018 13.8 11.9 13.1 30/06/2018 11.5 9 10.4 01/07/2018 11.8 10.9 11.2 02/07/2018 11 10.6 10.8 03/07/2018 12.3 11.3 11.7 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 19/06/2018 78 61 70.8 20/06/2018 86 82 84.2 21/06/2018 93 85 87.7 22/06/2018 97 94 95.3 23/06/2018 86 79 83.5 Wind Speed (km/h) 19/06/2018 14 1 7.5 20/06/2018 15 2 8.3 21/06/2018 18 9 10.8 22/06/2018 26 13 19.7 23/06/2018 13 9 11.0

GIS Extracted Variables HinesCreek1 HinesCreek2 Natural Region Boreal Boreal Natural Sub-Region Dry Mixedwood Dry Mixedwood Land Cover Group Forest Forest Land Cover Type Broadleaf Forest Broadleaf Forest Land Cover Code 220 220 Human Footprint Group Agriculture Agriculture Human Footprint Type Cultivation Cultivation (Crop/Pasture/Bare (Crop/Pasture/Bare Ground) Ground) Distance to HF (m) 37 34 Road Type ROAD-GRAVEL-1L ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 4 6 Distance to Road (m) 54 137 Water Type LAKE-PER LAKE-PER Distance to Water (m) 929 806

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Figure D2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 121185.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table D1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 121185 – Peace Region: Hines Creek.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk HinesCreek1 29/06/2018 2 20 21 30/06/2018 2 3 12 01/07/2018 HinesCreek2 29/06/2018 5 31 3 10 58 30/06/2018 1 1 13 9 8 5 57 01/07/2018 1 2 02/07/2018 13 8 6 8 104 03/07/2018 2 6 1 1 1 19

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix E - Grid 121190 Survey Results

Figure E1. Grid 121190 - Peace Region: Whitemud.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Natalka Melnycky

Site: Whitemud Number of Detectors Deployed: 4 Sunset:Grid Cell 22:44 ID: Sunrise: 05:02

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 05:48 Moonrise: 22.59

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 121190

Site Details Whitemud1 Whitemud2 Whitemud3 Whitemud4 Location – Latitude 56.3528 56.3347 56.4116 56.3930 Location – Longitude -117.7752 -117.8549 -117.7682 -117.8214 Habitat Type Forest Forest Forest Forest Feature Sampled Cutblock Cutblock Cutblock Cutblock General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 21/06/2018 21/06/2018 22/06/2018 22/06/2018 Date Recovered 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 Date Recording Started 21/06/2018 21/06/2018 22/06/2018 22/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 Time Recording Started 22:10:01 22:30:01 22:31:01 22:31:01 Time Recording Stopped 05:20:00 05:20:00 05:19:00 05:20:00 Moon Phase Start First quarter First quarter First quarter First quarter Moon Phase End Full Full Full Full Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter Song Meter Song Meter Song Meter SM4Bat™ SM4Bat™ SM4Bat™ SM4Bat™ Microphone Type Recording Mode Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m)

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 21/06/2018 18.8 17.7 18.4 22/06/2018 17.5 15.2 16.3 23/06/2018 17.1 14.2 15.8 24/06/2018 20.2 16 17.9 25/06/2018 12.9 10 11.3 26/06/2018 11.7 9.4 10.5 27/06/2018 14 10.6 12.3 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 21/06/2018 76 71 73.3 22/06/2018 91 80 85.7 23/06/2018 65 54 58.5 24/06/2018 72 51 58.0 25/06/2018 64 54 59.7 26/06/2018 91 74 82.7 27/06/2018 73 65 68.3 Wind Speed (km/h) 21/06/2018 22 7 13.7 22/06/2018 10 7 8.3 23/06/2018 13 5 9.2 24/06/2018 15 7 12.3 25/06/2018 30 19 24.5 26/06/2018 28 13 21.2 27/06/2018 16 12 13.5

GIS Extracted Variables Whitemud1 Whitemud2 Whitemud3 Whitemud4 Natural Region Boreal Boreal Boreal Boreal Natural Sub-Region Lower Boreal Lower Boreal Lower Boreal Lower Boreal Highlands Highlands Highlands Highlands Land Cover Group Forest Forest Forest Forest Land Cover Type Broadleaf Forest Broadleaf Forest Broadleaf Forest Broadleaf Forest Land Cover Code 220 220 220 220 Human Footprint Group Forestry Forestry Forestry Forestry Human Footprint Type Cut Blocks Cut Blocks Cut Blocks Cut Blocks Distance to HF (m) 13 0 0 0 Road Type TRUCK-TRAIL ROAD- ROAD-GRAVEL-1L ROAD-GRAVEL-1L UNIMPROVED Road Scale 7 6 4 4 Distance to Road (m) 489 13 105 329 Water Type LAKE-RECUR LAKE-PER LAKE-PER LAKE-PER Distance to Water (m) 1779 1061 269 717

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Figure E2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 121190.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table E1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 121190 – Peace Region: Whitemud.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Whitemud1 21/06/2018 11 8 6 8 74 22/06/2018 1 2 1 16 23/06/2018 6 6 1 1 77 24/06/2018 7 5 4 6 99 25/06/2018 5 2 2 17 26/06/2018 1 3 27/06/2018 1 2 7 Whitemud2 21/06/2018 1 2 31 7 7 236 22/06/2018 2 1 2 13 23/06/2018 4 32 8 3 2 114 24/06/2018 99 21 33 5 13 410 25/06/2018 3 2 34 26/06/2018 1 1 2 5 27/06/2018 2 4 3 49 Whitemud3 22/06/2018 3 23/06/2018 25 43 24/06/2018 1 49 6 5 87 25/06/2018 6 24 26/06/2018 1 27/06/2018 2 Whitemud4 22/06/2018 1 23/06/2018 6 1 12 24/06/2018 10 1 1 31 25/06/2018 7 36 26/06/2018 1 3 27/06/2018 1

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix F - Grid 77606 Survey Results

Figure F1. Grid 77606 - Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Jason Unruh

Site: Red Deer 1 Number of Detectors Deployed: 1 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:53 ID: Sunrise: 05:27

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 20:33 Moonrise: 04:07

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 77606

Site Details Station 1 Location – Latitude 51.8001 Location – Longitude -112.6323 Habitat Type Feature Sampled General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 11/07/2018 Date Recovered 31/07/2018 Date Recording Started 11/07/2018 Date Recording Stopped 31/07/2018 Time Recording Started 21:22:59 Time Recording Stopped 05:47:33 Moon Phase Start New Moon Phase End Waning gibbous Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM4Bat™ Microphone Type Recording Mode Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) * Model type unknown, assuming SM4Bat

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 11/07/2018 15.2 11.6 13.3 12/07/2018 15.2 13.3 14.0 13/07/2018 14.6 13.3 14.0 14/07/2018 13.2 11.4 12.0 15/07/2018 12.8 11.5 12.2 16/07/2018 18.3 14.7 16.2 17/07/2018 18.7 16 17.3 18/07/2018 18.7 16 17.3 19/07/2018 17.1 12.8 14.6 20/07/2018 14.6 12.5 13.4 21/07/2018 12.1 9.7 11.0 22/07/2018 12.1 9.7 11.0 23/07/2018 13.2 11.1 12.1 24/07/2018 13.2 11.1 12.1 25/07/2018 11.7 10.1 11.0 26/07/2018 13.5 10.1 11.0 27/07/2018 13.5 9.5 11.2 28/07/2018 14.4 12.1 13.5 29/07/2018 17.2 13.3 15.0 30/07/2018 18.4 13.9 15.5 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 11/07/2018 93 82 87.2 12/07/2018 93 85 88.3 13/07/2018 91 85 88.3 14/07/2018 95 93 94.2 15/07/2018 89 83 86.2 16/07/2018 82 76 79.7 17/07/2018 96 82 90.7 18/07/2018 96 82 90.7 19/07/2018 96 90 94.3 20/07/2018 97 90 94.3 21/07/2018 97 90 92.5 22/07/2018 96 88 94.0 23/07/2018 97 91 95.0 24/07/2018 97 91 95.0 25/07/2018 97 91 94.3 26/07/2018 95 88 92.8 27/07/2018 95 88 92.8 28/07/2018 87 79 83.2 29/07/2018 77 68 72.8 30/07/2018 98 76 92.8

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Wind Speed (km/h) Maximum Minimum Mean 11/07/2018 13 8 10.7 12/07/2018 16 8 12.0 13/07/2018 16 8 12.0 14/07/2018 26 21 24.0 15/07/2018 18 13 15.3 16/07/2018 18 14 16.2 17/07/2018 22 14 16.2 18/07/2018 22 5 9.3 19/07/2018 12 5 8.3 20/07/2018 13 8 10.7 21/07/2018 16 13 15.0 22/07/2018 16 13 15.0 23/07/2018 10 6 7.3 24/07/2018 10 6 7.8 25/07/2018 15 10 13.3 26/07/2018 15 10 13.3 27/07/2018 14 4 10.7 28/07/2018 17 14 15.5 29/07/2018 17 14 15.5 30/07/2018 17 11 13.3

GIS Extracted Variables Station 1 Natural Region Grassland Natural Sub-Region Northern Fescue Land Cover Group Shrub Grassland Land Cover Type Grassland Land Cover Code 110 Human Footprint Group Energy Mining Human Footprint Type Pipeline Distance to HF (m) 82 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 6 Distance to Road (m) 233 Water Type LAKE-RECUR Distance to Water (m) 1532

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Figure F2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 77606.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table F1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 77606 – Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer 1.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Station 1 11/07/2018 1 1 1 1 12/07/2018 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 13/07/2018 1 1 1 3 1 14/07/2018 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 15/07/2018 1 4 3 1 16/07/2018 1 3 17/07/2018 1 2 10 2 18/07/2018 1 4 2 8 2 1 19/07/2018 2 1 7 1 20/07/2018 1 2 1 21/07/2018 4 2 5 5 1 22/07/2018 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 23/07/2018 1 1 7 2 1 24/07/2018 1 1 2 7 25/07/2018 1 1 1 1 4 1 26/07/2018 1 1 41 1 1 8 12 27/07/2018 3 3 4 4 4 1 28/07/2018 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 29/07/2018 1 1 4 2 30/07/2018 1 4 2 2 1 3 1

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix G - Grid 78372 Survey Results

Figure G1. Grid 78372 - Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer 2.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Jason Unruh

Site: Red Deer 2 Number of Detectors Deployed: 1 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:53 ID: Sunrise: 05:27

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 20:33 Moonrise: 04:07

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 78372

Site Details Station 2 Location – Latitude 51.9193 Location – Longitude -112.5673 Habitat Type Agriculture Feature Sampled Farmland General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 11/07/2018 Date Recovered 31/07/2018 Date Recording Started 11/07/2018 Date Recording Stopped 31/07/2018 Time Recording Started 22:36:48 Time Recording Stopped 06:20:00 Moon Phase Start First quarter Moon Phase End Full Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM4Bat™ Microphone Type Recording Mode Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) * Model type unknown, assuming SM4Bat

GIS Extracted Variables Station 2 Natural Region Grassland Natural Sub-Region Northern Fescue Land Cover Group Exposed Developed Water Land Cover Type Developed Land Cover Code 34 Human Footprint Group Agriculture Human Footprint Type Cultivation (Crop/Pasture/Bare Ground) Distance to HF (m) 0 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 6 Distance to Road (m) 31 Water Type LAKE-RECUR Distance to Water (m) 438

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Figure G2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 78372.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table G1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 78372– Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer 2.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Station 2 11/07/2018 1 36 8 9 12/07/2018 1 2 13/07/2018 1 4 3 24 3 3 14/07/2018 2 5 3 15/07/2018 1 1 1 2 7 1 16/07/2018 2 1 2 7 1 17/07/2018 2 1 2 2 26 3 1 18/07/2018 1 19/07/2018 1 1 2 1 8 5 1 20/07/2018 1 1 2 15 1 2 21/07/2018 1 1 1 1 7 2 3 22/07/2018 6 1 1 5 15 2 1 23/07/2018 1 2 4 3 5 1 24/07/2018 3 2 25/07/2018 4 13 2 3 9 9 26/07/2018 1 1 2 4 7 4 27/07/2018 1 5 3 3 1 1 28/07/2018 2 3 3 18 1 2 29/07/2018 1 1 1 6 1 30/07/2018 1 36 8 9

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix H - Grid 75316 Survey Results

Figure H1. Grid 75316 - Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer 3.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Jason Unruh

Site: Red Deer 3 Number of Detectors Deployed: 1 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:53 ID: Sunrise: 05:27

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 20:33 Moonrise: 04:07

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 75316

Site Details Station 2 Location – Latitude 51.6441 Location – Longitude -119.9287 Habitat Type Feature Sampled General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 11/07/2018 Date Recovered 31/07/2018 Date Recording Started 11/07/2018 Date Recording Stopped 31/07/2018 Time Recording Started 21:13:59 Time Recording Stopped 06:20:00 Moon Phase Start First quarter Moon Phase End Full Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM4Bat™ Microphone Type Recording Mode Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) * Model type unknown, assuming SM4Bat

GIS Extracted Variables Station 3 Natural Region Grassland Natural Sub-Region Dry Mixedgrass Land Cover Group Exposed Developed Water Land Cover Type Developed Land Cover Code 34 Human Footprint Group Commercial Industrial Human Footprint Type Reservoirs Distance to HF (m) 7 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 6 Distance to Road (m) 32 Water Type RESERVOIR Distance to Water (m) 41

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Figure H2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 75316.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table H1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 78372– Red Deer North Saskatchewan Region: Red Deer 3.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Station 3 11/07/2018 2 3 9 1 12/07/2018 1 1 6 1 13/07/2018 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 14/07/2018 4 1 3 1 14 8 15/07/2018 1 2 1 2 2 12 3 16/07/2018 3 3 3 2 8 3 3 17/07/2018 1 4 5 6 12 18/07/2018 3 3 1 4 2 15 4 4 19/07/2018 1 7 1 8 12 20/07/2018 1 6 3 1 13 4 21/07/2018 2 2 2 16 32 127 5 1 23 22/07/2018 3 1 6 13 1 3 23/07/2018 1 4 8 4 1 18 1 1 4

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix I - Grid 52371 Survey Results

Figure I1. Grid 52371- South Saskatchewan River Region: Lost River.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Sandi Roberston

Site: Lost River Number of Detectors Deployed: 3 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:24 ID: Sunrise: 05:18

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 13:09 Moonrise: 02:52

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 52371

Site Details Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Location – Latitude 49.036505 49.032624 49.028212 Location – Longitude -110.469394 -110.473784 -110.465942 Habitat Type Grassland Grassland Grassland Feature Sampled coulee coulee coulee General Description of Deployment Recording Details Date Deployed 08/06/2018 08/06/2018 08/06/2018 Date Recovered 18/06/2018 16/06/2018 18/06/2018 Date Recording Started 08/06/2018 08/06/2018 08/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 18/06/2018 16/06/2018 18/06/2018 Time Recording Started unknown unknown unknown Time Recording Stopped unknown unknown unknown Moon Phase Start Moon Phase End Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Anabat Express Anabat Express Anabat Express Microphone Type Omni-directional Omni-directional Omni-directional Recording Mode zero-cross zero-cross zero-cross Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) 3 3 3 Microphone Orientation E NW NW Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) >100 >100 >100 * AnaBat Express timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks GIS Extracted Variables Detector #1 Detector #2 Detector #3 Natural Region Grassland Grassland Grassland Natural Sub-Region Dry Mixedgrass Dry Mixedgrass Dry Mixedgrass Land Cover Group Exposed Developed Shrub Grassland Exposed Developed Water Water Land Cover Type Exposed Land Grassland Exposed Land Land Cover Code 33 110 33 Human Footprint Group Transportation Energy Mining Energy Mining Human Footprint Type Road - Vegetated Verge Seismic line Seismic line Distance to HF (m) 56 3 514 Road Type TRUCK-TRAIL TRUCK-TRAIL TRUCK-TRAIL Road Scale 7 7 7 Distance to Road (m) 62 69 694 Water Type RESERVOIR RESERVOIR LAKE-RECUR Distance to Water (m) 1100 1637 1533

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Figure I2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 52371.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table I1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 52371 – South Saskatchewan River Region: Lost River.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Unit 1 08/06/2018 1 5 11 2 1 20 16 09/06/2018 4 44 358 2 150 10/06/2018 1 61 1 98 11/06/2018 1 22 121 56 12/06/2018 1 13 365 7 89 13/06/2018 6 169 1 5 65 14/06/2018 7 122 2 26 15/06/2018 1 16 148 4 85 16/06/2018 1 7 5 2 17/06/2018 1 4 60 28 Unit 2 08/06/2018 19 1 09/06/2018 2 2 42 3 28 10/06/2018 1 5 7 7 73 11/06/2018 124 16 12/06/2018 13/06/2018 1 5 27 1 9 183 14/06/2018 3 2 43 3 62 15/06/2018 1 1 7 Unit 3 08/06/2018 4 3 6 17 09/06/2018 1 1 8 19 10/06/2018 3 1 11/06/2018 1 6 8 8 12/06/2018 2 8 15 13/06/2018 1 9 8 14/06/2018 2 5 15/06/2018 4 7 3 175 288 16/06/2018 7 11 17/06/2018 2 1 51 78

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix J - Grid 52372 Survey Results

Figure J1. Grid 52372- South Saskatchewan River Region: SSR Camps.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Sandi Robertson

Site: SSR Camps Number of Detectors Deployed: 2 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:29 ID: Sunrise: 05:16

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 00:47 Moonrise: 11:09

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 52372

Site Details Cow Camp Sheep Camp Location – Latitude 49.05695 49.0709 Location – Longitude -110.4612 -110.42868 Habitat Type Grassland Grassland Feature Sampled buildings buildings General Description of Deployment cow camp sheep camp Recording Details Date Deployed 18/06/2018 18/06/2018 Date Recovered 03/07/2018 25/06/2018 Date Recording Started 18/06/2018 18/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 03/07/2018 25/06/2018 Time Recording Started unknown unknown Time Recording Stopped unknown unknown Moon Phase Start Waxing crescent Waxing crescent Moon Phase End Waning gibbous Waning gibbous Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Anabat Express Anabat Express Microphone Type Omni-directional Omni-directional Recording Mode zero-cross zero-cross Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) 3 3 Microphone Orientation Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) 50 50 * AnaBat Express timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 18/06/2018 13.2 11.5 12.7 19/06/2018 13.2 11.8 12.4 20/06/2018 13 10.9 11.7 21/06/2018 15.4 12.2 13.3 22/06/2018 20 14.1 16.3 23/06/2018 17.5 12.6 14.8 24/06/2018 16.5 13.5 15.0 25/06/2018 16.1 13.3 14.4 26/06/2018 17.6 10.5 14.1 27/06/2018 11.9 9.7 10.5 28/06/2018 13.8 11.5 12.3 29/06/2018 15.1 13.2 14.2 30/06/2018 11.5 8.6 10.1 01/07/2018 16.6 10.8 14.0 02/07/2018 13.2 7.8 9.9 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 18/06/2018 71 62 65.7 19/06/2018 96 84 91.0 20/06/2018 94 91 92.8 21/06/2018 94 82 90.0 22/06/2018 78 62 72.2 23/06/2018 95 74 86.8 24/06/2018 97 86 90.8 25/06/2018 96 85 90.2 26/06/2018 91 71 78.5 27/06/2018 56 48 52.3 28/06/2018 60 54 57.0 29/06/2018 75 59 64.0 30/06/2018 94 82 89.5 01/07/2018 73 51 59.5 02/07/2018 86 64 77.3 Wind Speed (km/h) 18/06/2018 18 11 14.5 19/06/2018 13 10 11.5 20/06/2018 15 8 11.8 21/06/2018 17 12 14.3 22/06/2018 24 11 18.8 23/06/2018 22 4 15.2 24/06/2018 24 11 16.8 25/06/2018 17 7 12.0 26/06/2018 14 3 8.5 27/06/2018 21 14 17.8 28/06/2018 11 3 6.8 29/06/2018 17 9 13.0 30/06/2018 20 5 13.5 01/07/2018 26 16 21.7 02/07/2018 17 3 6.2 31 March 2018 North American Bat Monitoring Program - Alberta 2018 80 © 2019 Government of Alberta

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks GIS Extracted Variables Cow Camp Sheep Camp Natural Region Grassland Grassland Natural Sub-Region Dry Mixedgrass Dry Mixedgrass Land Cover Group Exposed Developed Water Shrub Grassland Land Cover Type Developed Grassland Land Cover Code 34 110 Human Footprint Group Residential Recreation Residential Recreation Human Footprint Type Rural (Residential/Industrial) Rural (Residential/Industrial) Distance to HF (m) 0 0 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED ROAD-GRAVEL-1L Road Scale 6 4 Distance to Road (m) 18 59 Water Type LAKE-RECUR LAKE-RECUR Distance to Water (m) 400 519

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Figure J2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 52372.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table J3. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 52372 – South Saskatchewan River Region: SSR Camps.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Cow Camp 18/06/2018 1 1 8 99 19/06/2018 2 7 7 131 20/06/2018 1 5 5 7 109 21/06/2018 3 1 10 70 22/06/2018 12 1 19 9 9 136 23/06/2018 20 15 19 18 237 24/06/2018 5 5 22 14 124 25/06/2018 3 12 11 14 243 26/06/2018 2 1 18 134 27/06/2018 1 8 9 15 96 28/06/2018 4 5 7 13 134 29/06/2018 1 26 79 30/06/2018 5 7 4 11 93 01/07/2018 1 2 9 60 02/07/2018 1 1 4 19 Sheep Camp 18/06/2018 9 1 19/06/2018 1 3 21 1 7 26 20/06/2018 2 78 2 8 49 21/06/2018 1 7 116 16 110 22/06/2018 1 22 7 8 59 23/06/2018 5 4 49 1 10 63 24/06/2018 1 24 2 19 38 18/06/2018 9 1 19/06/2018 1 3 21 1 7 26 20/06/2018 2 78 2 8 49

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix K - Grid 53137 Survey Results

Figure K1. Grid 53137- South Saskatchewan River Region: Onefour.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Sandi Robertson

Site: Onefour Number of Detectors Deployed: 2 Sunset:Grid Cell 21: ID:24 Sunrise: 05:18

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 12:55 Moonrise: 02:04

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☐Y ☒N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 53137

Site Details Playground Reservoir Location – Latitude 49.12053 49.12736 Location – Longitude -110.47285 -110.46824 Habitat Type Grassland Grassland Feature Sampled buildings buildings General Description of Deployment playground reservoir Recording Details Date Deployed 08/06/2018 18/06/2018 Date Recovered 18/06/2018 03/07/2018 Date Recording Started 08/06/2018 08/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 18/06/2018 03/07/2018 Time Recording Started unknown unknown Time Recording Stopped unknown unknown Moon Phase Start Waning crescent Waxing crescent Moon Phase End Waxing crescent Waning gibbous Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Anabat Express Anabat Express Microphone Type Omni-directional Omni-directional Recording Mode zero-cross zero-cross Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length Maximum File Length Calibration Method Microphone Height (m) 3 3 Microphone Orientation W W Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m) 50m >100m * AnaBat Express timestamps appear incorrect - only the dates recordings started/stopped are known but not the time

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 08/06/2018 13.6 11.5 12.7 09/06/2018 19.8 12.3 14.5 10/06/2018 14.7 12 13.9 11/06/2018 8.2 4.2 6.2 12/06/2018 10.2 6.3 9.0 13/06/2018 14.6 13.2 14.0 14/06/2018 16.5 13.3 14.5 15/06/2018 9.3 6.5 7.7 16/06/2018 13.2 10.3 12.1 17/06/2018 11.4 8.3 9.8 18/06/2018 13.2 11.5 12.7 19/06/2018 13.2 11.8 12.4 20/06/2018 13 10.9 11.7 21/06/2018 15.4 12.2 13.3 22/06/2018 20 14.1 16.3 23/06/2018 17.5 12.6 14.8 24/06/2018 16.5 13.5 15.0 25/06/2018 16.1 13.3 14.4 26/06/2018 17.6 10.5 14.1 27/06/2018 11.9 9.7 10.5 28/06/2018 13.8 11.5 12.3 29/06/2018 15.1 13.2 14.2 30/06/2018 11.5 8.6 10.1 01/07/2018 16.6 10.8 14.0 02/07/2018 13.2 7.8 9.9 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 08/06/2018 95 87 91.0 09/06/2018 77 44 66.7 10/06/2018 94 72 86.2 11/06/2018 64 49 56.5 12/06/2018 55 42 45.8 13/06/2018 39 32 35.3 14/06/2018 58 44 52.0 15/06/2018 96 87 93.3 16/06/2018 79 68 72.7 17/06/2018 93 85 89.2 18/06/2018 71 62 65.7 19/06/2018 96 84 91.0 20/06/2018 94 91 92.8 21/06/2018 94 82 90.0 22/06/2018 78 62 72.2 23/06/2018 95 74 86.8 24/06/2018 97 86 90.8 25/06/2018 96 85 90.2 26/06/2018 91 71 78.5 27/06/2018 56 48 52.3 28/06/2018 60 54 57.0 31 March 2018 North American Bat Monitoring Program - Alberta 2018 86 © 2019 Government of Alberta

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Relative Humidity (%) Maximum Minimum Mean 29/06/2018 75 59 64.0 30/06/2018 94 82 89.5 01/07/2018 73 51 59.5 02/07/2018 86 64 77.3 Wind Speed (km/h) 08/06/2018 19 11 14.5 09/06/2018 19 5 13.5 10/06/2018 40 13 25.8 11/06/2018 26 10 19.0 12/06/2018 32 13 23.7 13/06/2018 14 5 9.3 14/06/2018 17 3 6.7 15/06/2018 19 8 14.7 16/06/2018 30 16 21.3 17/06/2018 13 1 6.8 18/06/2018 18 11 14.5 19/06/2018 13 10 11.5 20/06/2018 15 8 11.8 21/06/2018 17 12 14.3 22/06/2018 24 11 18.8 23/06/2018 22 4 15.2 24/06/2018 24 11 16.8 25/06/2018 17 7 12.0 26/06/2018 14 3 8.5 27/06/2018 21 14 17.8 28/06/2018 11 3 6.8 29/06/2018 17 9 13.0 30/06/2018 20 5 13.5 01/07/2018 26 16 21.7 02/07/2018 17 3 6.2

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks GIS Extracted Variables Playground* Reservoir* Natural Region Grassland Grassland Natural Sub-Region Dry Mixedgrass Dry Mixedgrass Land Cover Group Shrub Grassland Exposed Developed Water Land Cover Type Grassland Developed Land Cover Code 110 34 Human Footprint Group Commercial Industrial Residential Recreation Human Footprint Type Reservoirs Urban Distance to HF (m) 35 0 Road Type ROAD-UNCLASSIFIED ROAD-UNCLASSIFIED Road Scale 5 5 Distance to Road (m) 115 30 Water Type RESERVOIR RESERVOIR Distance to Water (m) 35 279 * Should check with surveyor on coordinates - from GIS it would seem names are mixed up

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Figure K2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 53137.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table K1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 53137 – South Saskatchewan River Region: Onefour.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Playground 08/06/2018 4 1 9 15 09/06/2018 1 2 10 36 10/06/2018 1 3 5 11/06/2018 1 2 5 12/06/2018 1 1 4 8 32 13/06/2018 1 4 13 30 14/06/2018 1 4 7 15/06/2018 6 69 362 16/06/2018 1 1 9 10 17/06/2018 1 7 19 Reservoir 18/06/2018 2 6 19/06/2018 1 9 3 17 20/06/2018 6 21/06/2018 1 3 14 22/06/2018 6 1 7 23/06/2018 4 1 2 5 3 26 24/06/2018 1 3 19 25/06/2018 6 1 1 9 14 26/06/2018 3 5 16 27/06/2018 1 1 7 10 28/06/2018 1 3 6 29/06/2018 1 2 8 10 30/06/2018 1 2 5

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Figure K3. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 53137.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix L - Grid 92108 Survey Results

Figure L1. Grid 92108 - Jasper National Park.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Hazenberg

Site: Jasper National Park Number of Detectors Deployed: 4 Sunset:Grid Cell 22:21 ID: Sunrise: 05:27

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 01:40 Moonrise: 11:33

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☒Y ☐N Map Datum: NAD 83 Grid Cell ID: 92108

Site Details Buffalo Prairie Wabasso Lake Valley of Five Tekarra Marsh Location – Latitude 52.79586 52.77916 52.81569 52.84225 Location – Longitude -118.00718 -117.95943 -118.02081 -118.03197 Habitat Type grassland wetland wet meadow wetland Feature Sampled large meadow marshy creek stream edge large wetland General Description of Deployment near edge of meadows at open marsh in slow stream in huge wetland 1086m forest at 1156m meadow 1080m 1056m Recording Details Date Deployed 18/06/2018 19/06/2018 18/06/2018 19/06/2018 Date Recovered 26/06/2018 25/06/2018 26/06/2018 25/06/2018 Date Recording Started 18/06/2018 19/06/2018 18/06/2018 19/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 26/06/2018 25/06/2018 26/06/2018 25/06/2018 Time Recording Started 21:51:02 21:50:36 21:51:02 21:50:36 Time Recording Stopped 05:59:00 05:55:42 05:59:00 05:57:01 Moon Phase Start waxing cres 29% waxing cres 40% waxing cres 29% waxing cres 40% Moon Phase End waxing gib 93% waxing gib 93% waxing gib 93% waxing gib 93% Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter Song Meter Song Meter Song Meter SM3™ SM2Bat+™ SM3™ SM2Bat+™ Microphone Type SMM-U1 SMX-U1 SMM-U1 SMX-U1 Recording Mode full spectrum full spectrum full spectrum full spectrum Gain Settings 12 dB 12 dB 12 dB 12 dB Signal-to-noise Ratio 18 18 18 18 Frequency Band Filters fs/12 fs/12 fs/12 fs/12 Trigger Window Length 2 sec 2 sec 2 sec 2 sec Maximum File Length 5 s 5 s 5 s 5 s Calibration Method none – but none – but none – but none – but tested with tested with tested with tested with chirper chirper chirper chirper Microphone Height (m) 5m 5m 5m 5m Microphone Orientation omni / down omni / down omni / down omni / down Weatherproofing Type foam foam foam foam Distance to Clutter (m) 50m 40m 30m 30m

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 18/06/2018 15.8 7.3 10.5 19/06/2018 18.1 9.9 13.0 20/06/2018 18.2 15.9 17.0 21/06/2018 18.2 15.9 17.0 22/06/2018 14 12.1 12.8 23/06/2018 17.1 11.6 13.0 24/06/2018 18.6 11.6 14.9 25/06/2018 18.6 11.6 14.9 26/06/2018 8.9 6.5 7.6 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 18/06/2018 85 49 66.7 19/06/2018 85 49 66.7 20/06/2018 76 60 66.5 21/06/2018 96 95 95.8 22/06/2018 96 95 95.8 23/06/2018 93 83 90.0 24/06/2018 88 57 70.0 25/06/2018 88 67 77.0 26/06/2018 88 67 77.0 Wind Speed (km/h) 18/06/2018 4 0 1.2 19/06/2018 7 1 4.8 20/06/2018 7 1 4.8 21/06/2018 4 1 2.5 22/06/2018 4 2 3.0 23/06/2018 9 5 6.8 24/06/2018 11 5 6.8 25/06/2018 11 4 5.5 26/06/2018 9 4 5.5

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks GIS Extracted Variables Buffalo Prairie Wabasso Lake Valley o fFive Tekarra Marsh Natural Region Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Natural Sub-Region Montane Montane Montane Montane Land Cover Group Shrub Grassland Shrub Grassland Shrub Grassland Shrub Grassland Land Cover Type Grassland Grassland Shrubland Grassland Land Cover Code 110 110 50 110 Human Footprint Group Transportation Transportation Transportation Residential Recreation Human Footprint Type Road - Vegetated Road - Hard Road - Vegetated Other Disturbed Verge Surface Verge Vegetation Distance to HF (m) 234 1727 742 1929 Road Type ROAD-PAVED- ROAD-PAVED- ROAD-PAVED- ROAD- UNDIV-2L UNDIV-2L UNDIV-2L UNIMPROVED Road Scale 2 2 2 6 Distance to Road (m) 253 1732 761 1992 Water Type WETLAND WETLAND WETLAND WETLAND Distance to Water (m) 0 0 405 0

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Figure L2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 92108.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table L1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 92108 – Jasper National Park.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Buffalo Prairie 18/06/2018 1 1 1 19/06/2018 1 2 1 1 20/06/2018 1 7 4 3 3 9 2 4 21/06/2018 1 6 4 1 2 22/06/2018 2 5 1 3 1 1 1 10 23/06/2018 3 1 24/06/2018 4 1 1 2 25/06/2018 7 1 2 2 2 6 Tekarra Marsh 19/06/2018 1 20/06/2018 2 2 27 2 21/06/2018 1 2 1 49 2 3 22/06/2018 1 2 19 1 2 23/06/2018 2 10 1 24/06/2018 1 7 1 25/06/2018 2 1 1 1 17 Valley of Five 19/06/2018 1 4 1 2 20/06/2018 2 1 3 31 2 2 21/06/2018 1 8 3 6 61 4 4 22/06/2018 2 3 5 3 1 3 23/06/2018 4 1 3 3 24/06/2018 4 5 1 25/06/2018 1 3 2 4 26/06/2018 2 2 Wabasso Lake 19/06/2018 1 1 20/06/2018 1 3 2 19 1 21/06/2018 11 1 2 144 6 10 22/06/2018 1 2 2 154 3 16 23/06/2018 5 2 24/06/2018 1 1 1 6 1 1 25/06/2018 2 10 1 1 Mobile 19/06/2018 2 2 1 1 2 1 4 20/06/2018 7 5 1 1 2 3 7 27/06/2018 1 6 12 2 8 20 25 1 0 0 15

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix M - Grid 143416 Survey Results

Figure M1. Grid 143416 - Wood Buffalo National Park.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks

Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Sharon Irwin

Site: Wood Buffalo National Park Number of Detectors Deployed: 3 - only 2 with data Sunset: 22:18 Sunrise: 05:15

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 01:50 Moonrise: 12:43

Mobile Transect Conducted? ☒Y ☐N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 143416

Site Details Parsons Rainbow Pine Location – Latitude 59.72281 59.77368 59.74148 Location – Longitude -112.17974 -112.09183 -112.11775 Habitat Type forest - aspen burn forest - pine wildlife opening near opening at trailhead across road (gravel) Feature Sampled pond near road General Description of Deployment on aluminum pole and on painter pole and on painter pole and rebar rebar rebar Recording Details Date Deployed bear ate microphone 07/06/2018 07/06/2018 Date Recovered 14/06/2018 14/06/2018 Date Recording Started 07/06/2018 07/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 14/06/2018 14/06/2018 Time Recording Started 00:12:55 23:06:58 Time Recording Stopped 02:40:11 01:58:10 Moon Phase Start Last quarter Last quarter Moon Phase End New New Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model* Song Meter SM3Bat™ Song Meter SM3Bat™ Song Meter SM3Bat™ Microphone Type SMM-U1 (horn) SMM-U1(horn) SMM-U1(horn) Recording Mode real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum Gain Settings Signal-to-noise Ratio Frequency Band Filters Trigger Window Length 2 s 2 s 2 s Maximum File Length 15 s 15 s 15 s Calibration Method WA Ultrasonic WA Ultrasonic WA Ultrasonic calibrator calibrator calibrator Microphone Height (m) 3.5 3 3.5 Microphone Orientation W NW SE Weatherproofing Type Distance to Clutter (m)

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Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 07/06/2018 16.1 12.5 14.1 08/06/2018 16.7 12.5 14.1 09/06/2018 16.9 15.7 16.4 10/06/2018 16.9 15.7 16.4 11/06/2018 14.3 13.8 13.9 12/06/2018 12.6 8.7 10.5 13/06/2018 8.7 8.3 8.5 14/06/2018 8.7 8.3 8.5 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 07/06/2018 60 46 51.5 08/06/2018 97 74 90.5 09/06/2018 97 89 91.8 10/06/2018 97 96 96.2 11/06/2018 97 96 96.2 12/06/2018 97 91 94.5 13/06/2018 97 92 94.5 14/06/2018 96 92 93.8 Wind Speed (km/h) 07/06/2018 23 5 11.0 08/06/2018 23 5 11.0 09/06/2018 9 6 8.2 10/06/2018 17 13 15.3 11/06/2018 17 13 15.3 12/06/2018 12 5 9.7 13/06/2018 17 12 13.8 14/06/2018 17 12 13.8

GIS Extracted Variables Parsons Rainbow Pine Natural Region Boreal Boreal Boreal Natural Sub-Region Northern Mixedwood Northern Mixedwood Northern Mixedwood Land Cover Group Forest Forest Forest Land Cover Type Broadleaf Forest Broadleaf Forest Mixed Forest Land Cover Code 220 220 230 Human Footprint Group Transportation Energy Mining Transportation Human Footprint Type Road - Vegetated Verge Seismic line Road - Vegetated Verge Distance to HF (m) 67 28 29 Road Type ROAD-UNIMPROVED ROAD-GRAVEL-1L ROAD-GRAVEL-1L Road Scale 6 4 4 Distance to Road (m) 77 699 43 Water Type WETLAND WETLAND WETLAND Distance to Water (m) 236 144 251

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Figure M2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 143416.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table M1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cell 143416 –Wood Buffalo National Park.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk Pine 07/06/2018 4 3 1 2 08/06/2018 29 25 9 110 16 21 09/06/2018 30 17 2 84 3 13 10/06/2018 22 21 1 1 6 1 16 11/06/2018 10 1 12/06/2018 1 1 5 31 5 1 13/06/2018 4 2 1 14/06/2018 1 4 1 Rainbow 08/06/2018 1 26 5 1 09/06/2018 1 1 7 26 3 4 10/06/2018 3 5 15 11/06/2018 4 12/06/2018 1 5 2 13/06/2018 2 2 1 14/06/2018 1 3 Mobile 11/06/2018 2 17 3 4 13 15/06/2018 2 6

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Appendix N - Grid 56171 & 56172 Survey Results

Figure N1. Grids 56171 & 56172 - Waterton Lakes National Park.

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Stationary Point Acoustic Monitoring Datasheet

Surveyor(s): Helena Mahoney

Site: Waterton Lakes National Park Number of Detectors Deployed: 3 Sunset:Grid Cell 21:43 ID: Sunrise: 05:31

Photos Submitted? ☐Y ☒N Moonset: 02:48 Moonrise: 16:10 Mobile Transect Conducted? ☒Y ☐N Map Datum: WGS 84 Grid Cell ID: 56171 & 56172

Site Details BLAKNEW - 56171 CAM - 56171 POW - 56172 Location – Latitude 49.10685 49.03972 49.0611 Location – Longitude -113.98093 -114.03294 -113.90191 Habitat Type montane montane montane Feature Sampled Pond/meadow meadow fescue grassland General Description of Deployment Grassy meadow on hill Small meadow and Hillside near lakeshore, above pond, gravel bars in with low lying shrubs surrounded by conifer coniferous forest and deciduous forest. Recording Details Date Deployed 22/06/2018 22/06/2018 29/06/2018 Date Recovered 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 04/07/2018 Date Recording Started 22/06/2018 22/06/2018 29/06/2018 Date Recording Stopped 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 04/07/2018 Time Recording Started 21:14:00 21:14:00 21:14:00 Time Recording Stopped 05:51:29 06:02:36 05:43:04 Moon Phase Start First quarter First quarter Full Moon Phase End Full Full Last quarter Detector Details Bat Detector Manufacturer and Model Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Song Meter SM2Bat+™ Microphone Type SMX-U1 SMX-U1 SMX-U1 Recording Mode real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum real-time full spectrum Gain Settings 12 db 12 db 12 db Signal-to-noise Ratio 18 18 18 Frequency Band Filters FS/48 FS/48 FS/48 Trigger Window Length 2 s 2 s 2 s Maximum File Length 0 0 0 Calibration Method Wildlife Acoustics Wildlife Acoustics Wildlife Acoustics Ultrasonic Calibrator Ultrasonic Calibrator Ultrasonic Calibrator Microphone Height (m) 5.45 5.45 5.84 Microphone Orientation 45° down, facing NW 45° down, facing NW 45° down, facing NW Weatherproofing Type none none none Distance to Clutter (m) 10 5.3 20

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Nightly Temperature (°C) Maximum Minimum Mean 22/06/2018 15 12.6 13.5 23/06/2018 13.9 13.2 13.5 24/06/2018 16.7 13.2 15.0 25/06/2018 16.4 12.8 14.1 26/06/2018 13.4 10.8 11.8 27/06/2018 15.8 10.7 13.7 28/06/2018 11.4 10.6 10.9 29/06/2018 13.2 12.1 12.7 30/06/2018 13.8 8.8 12.0 01/07/2018 10.1 7.3 8.6 02/07/2018 9.2 8.7 9.0 03/07/2018 15 12.6 13.5 Nightly Relative Humidity (%) 22/06/2018 64 54 60.7 23/06/2018 92 88 90.7 24/06/2018 76 62 69.3 25/06/2018 35 23 28.8 26/06/2018 46 34 40.7 27/06/2018 90 57 77.8 28/06/2018 68 64 67.0 29/06/2018 58 53 55.3 30/06/2018 64 47 53.2 01/07/2018 84 63 70.3 02/07/2018 73 68 71.3 03/07/2018 64 54 60.7 Wind Speed (km/h) 22/06/2018 27 22 24.2 23/06/2018 18 13 15.5 24/06/2018 22 13 17.5 25/06/2018 25 16 21.8 26/06/2018 26 17 22.3 27/06/2018 6 1 2.7 28/06/2018 28 20 24.3 29/06/2018 24 20 22.0 30/06/2018 12 3 7.5 01/07/2018 18 5 13.2 02/07/2018 26 20 22.2 03/07/2018 27 22 24.2

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GIS Extracted Variables BLAKNEW - 56171 CAM - 56171 POW - 56172 Natural Region Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Natural Sub-Region Montane Subalpine Montane Land Cover Group Forest Forest Shrub Grassland Land Cover Type Broadleaf Forest Coniferous Forest Water Land Cover Code 220 210 20 Human Footprint Group Transportation Energy Mining Residential Recreation Human Footprint Type Road - Vegetated Verge Seismic line Other Disturbed Vegetation Distance to HF (m) 46 62 0 Road Type ROAD-PAVED-UNDIV-2L ROAD-PAVED-UNDIV-2L ROAD-UNIMPROVED Road Scale 2 2 6 Distance to Road (m) 68 93 279 Water Type RIV-MAJ LAKE-PER LAKE-PER Distance to Water (m) 88 1053 37

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Figure N2. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 56171.

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Figure N3. Total call sequences identified to species / species group by detector for grid cell 56172.

NABat Alberta 2018 Environment and Parks Table N1. Total bat call sequences by species / species group for grid cells 56171 & 56172 –Waterton Lake National Park.

EPFU- LABO- Myotis MYEV- EPFU LANO LANO LACI LABO MYLU MYLU 40k MYSE MYCA unk BLAKNEW 22/06/2018 1 14 23/06/2018 1 2 17 24/06/2018 4 6 2 2 88 25/06/2018 6 3 2 9 147 26/06/2018 1 1 6 91 27/06/2018 2 1 8 141 CAM 22/06/2018 3 1 9 23/06/2018 4 39 1 23 24/06/2018 1 7 3 13 25/06/2018 2 122 1 1 26 26/06/2018 46 1 7 27/06/2018 3 45 1 6 18 POW 29/06/2018 1 1 2 7 12 30/06/2018 2 3 9 01/07/2018 1 1 1 3 10 02/07/2018 4 8 Mobile 24/06/2018 1 36 05/07/2018 4 1 14 09/07/2018 1 3 16 2 8 18