Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge near Scottsboro, Ala., is known for an endangered population of a quarter-million gray bats, the largest nursery colony of gray bats east of the Mississippi.
On Tuesday, the Land Trust of North Alabama, based in Huntsville, will sponsor an outing to the protected cave as part of its Tuesdays on the Trail environmental education programs.
The program, led by wildlife biologist Keith Hudson, will begin at 7 p.m. CDT; the bats will emerge from the cave about 30 minutes before true dark.
Sauta Cave Drive is about seven miles west of Scottsboro on Highway 72. The road is closed to cars; attendees will need to park on the shoulder and walk about 200 yards to the observation platform.
For more information, call 256-534-5263 or visit landtrustnal.org.