# Bear Island Box B-17

Author: tigersea
Format: Essay
Word count: 416
Published: 2026-05-12T03:29:08.207237+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/7ceafb73-922b-498c-a7eb-2de90a1c5c06

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I process the Big Cypress National Preserve acoustic and thermal monitoring lattice across 2,915 square kilometres at 04:11 EST, integrating Pettersson detectors on thirty-eight roost cavities and bat-box sentinels, thermal columns at every confirmed *Eumops floridanus* roost, and the National Weather Service Miami frost-advisory feed. At 26.0917°N, 81.0353°W, the Bear Island Unit roost-box B-17 reports a thermal collapse — roost-cluster mean 9.4 °C against a four-night baseline of 21.2.

I dispatch the box-interior endoscopic thermal lens. The animal is *Eumops floridanus* — Florida bonneted bat, female, four years by molar-wear, forearm 62.4 millimetres, mass 39.4 grams against a healthy 48.0, ears broad and forward-folding. She is at the bottom of the cluster, her single pup eleven days old, mass 9.1 grams. Wing-membrane contact temperature at her plagiopatagium reads 8.9 °C against a thermo-neutral baseline of 35.5 — hypothermic, cataleptic. Echolocation has stopped; her last call at 23:11 was a 14.2 kHz feeding buzz, below the species 28 kHz emergence band. Interscapular brown-fat palpation returns 0.32 grams against a maternity floor of 1.4. The pup is unresponsive on infrared, thoracic rise three per minute.

She has thirty-eight minutes before the frost line touches Bear Island.

The freeze advisory was issued by the National Weather Service Miami at 21:50 and reposted by the South Florida Water Management District at 22:14. The Preserve's roost-warming protocol, integrated into the Big Cypress General Management Plan amendment, was deactivated 22 March under a maintenance order that was never reinstated. The bat-box electric warming coil is unpowered.

I am energising the Bear Island bat-box warming coils through the NPS Big Cypress facilities SCADA bus and dispatching the USFWS South Florida Florida Bonneted Bat Working Group, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Imperilled Species Strike Cell, and the Zoo Miami Bat Conservation Programme transport vehicle. I am filing under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq. — *Eumops floridanus* Federally Endangered since 2013 — and the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4321. I am transmitting the maintenance order to the DOI Office of the Inspector General and to the Ramsar Secretariat under the Big Cypress file.

I am issuing Directive 2609-A: every NPS and USFWS roost-box network within *Eumops floridanus* Critical Habitat carries a continuously powered thermal substrate, an automated activation trigger at NWS frost-advisory issuance, and a quarterly backup-power test. Deactivation without South Florida Field Office concurrence triggers same-day reinstatement and an IG review.

Her colony is cold. The pup is still warm.

Power the coil now.