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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor="#FAF9F3" lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#00573D"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I would like to share this information because one of our threats to invasive species control is folks not appreciating and protecting nature because of fear of ticks and Lyme disease, even more than being in cyberspace all the time. Marc</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Kent Hibben [<a href="mailto:kentlhibben@gmail.com">mailto:kentlhibben@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 18, 2017 7:25 AM<br><b>To:</b> Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: wildlife hero in the fight against ticks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Marc<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I quite appreciate your posts. The NWF article discusses possums using ready-made burrows. Are there (s.a. with bat houses) particular actions humans can do to build or enable such burrows to be available?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kent<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:#FAF9F3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/conservation/"><span style='color:#00573D'>ON</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:#FAF9F3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/garden-habitats/"><span style='color:#00573D'>GARDEN HABITATS</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:#FAF9F3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/students-and-nature/"><span style='color:#00573D'>STUDENTS AND NATURE</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:#FAF9F3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/get-outside/"><span style='color:#00573D'>GET OUTSIDE</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/garden-habitats/"><span style='color:#7CB147;text-transform:uppercase'>GARDEN HABITATS</span></a> <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/wildlife-facts/"><span style='color:#B5862F;text-transform:uppercase'>WILDLIFE FACTS</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:30.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00573D;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'>OPOSSUMS: UNSUNG HEROES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TICKS AND LYME DISEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/authors/jane-kirchner/"><span style='color:#00573D'>JANE KIRCHNER</span></a> | <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/2017/06/"><span style='color:#00573D'>JUNE 13, 2017</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'><img border=0 width=1011 height=486 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2E7A0.C8EFFB80" alt="opossum and young"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Young opossums sometimes ride on their mother’s back as she hunts for food. Photo credit: MonicaR./flickr<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>With the huge rise in deer tick populations and the spread of Lyme disease, many friends of wildlife are welcoming opossums into their yards. Why? Scientists have learned that <a href="http://www.caryinstitute.org/discover-ecology/podcasts/why-you-should-brake-possums"><span style='color:#00573D'>opossums act like little</span></a><a href="http://www.caryinstitute.org/discover-ecology/podcasts/why-you-should-brake-possums"><span style='color:#00573D;text-decoration:none'> </span><span style='color:#00573D'>vacuum cleaners when it comes to ticks</span></a> – with a single opossum hoovering up and killing as many as 4,000 ticks per week.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:17.4pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00573D;letter-spacing:.3pt'>Opossums are extraordinarily good groomers it turns out – we never would have thought that ahead of time – but they kill the vast majority – more than 95% percent of the ticks that try to feed on them. So these opossums are walking around the forest floor, hoovering up ticks right and left, killing over 90% of these things, and so they are really protecting our health. – Rick Ostfeld, Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00573D;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'>MORE POSSUM BENEFITS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Opossums, sometimes referred to just as possums, are a benefit to ecosystems and a healthy environment beyond eradicating ticks. They will catch and eat cockroaches, rats and mice – in addition to consuming dead animals of all types (also known as carrion). <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/2014/07/opossums-and-gardening-a-few-things-to-know/"><span style='color:#00573D'>Gardeners appreciate opossums’ appetite for snails, slugs and for cleaning up over-ripe fruit and berries</span></a>. And, since they are immune to the venom of poisonous serpents, opossums also eat rattlesnakes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00573D;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.15pt'>EVENING SHIFT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Adult opossums are solitary and nocturnal—active at night—and generally live in burrows and cavities that they find ready-made rather than create themselves. They seek shelter underground, in trees or anywhere in between.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'><img border=0 width=300 height=249 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D2E7A0.C8EFFB80" alt="http://b50ym1n8ryw31pmkr4671ui1c64.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2017/06/opossum_babypotsythepossum_Amy_flickr_v1-300x249.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted #00573D 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 11.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Young opossum out at night. Photo credit: Amy/flickr<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'><img border=0 width=300 height=249 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D2E7A0.C8EFFB80" alt=opossum><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted #00573D 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 11.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Young opossum “freezing” when frightened. Photo credit: Amy/flickr<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'> <br> <br>When frightened or harmed, opossums suddenly freeze and lie still as death. They have no control over this response, which could be said to paralyze them with fear or have evolved because almost any predator can outrun them. If left unharmed, a catatonic opossum will recover in roughly one to four hours.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>This amazing species is North America’s only marsupial (pouched mammal). When the so-called Great American Interchange occurred with the closing of Central America around 3 million years ago, the opossum was pretty much the only marsupial from South America that successfully moved to and survived in the north.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Here at the National Wildlife Federation we celebrate and appreciate the opossum!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FAF9F3'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A3A3A;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/garden-habitats/"><i><span style='color:#252525'>Garden Habitats</span></i></a>, <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/topics/wildlife-facts/"><i><span style='color:#252525'>Wildlife Facts</span></i></a> | <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/tags/backyard-habitat/"><i><span 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