I Description of property

This beautiful vacation resort is located on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. There are 7 three-story guest buildings,a staff residence complex, marina, two large restaurant structures, two dozen various pavilions and pool tikis, walkway coverings, activity buildings and a number of other structures that all had to be serviced.

II Description of problem

The resort was home to one of the largest free-tail bat colonies FOB has found. In one pavilion it was estimated that over 5,000 bats were living in the roof ridge under the cedar shake tiles and the main bar/restaurant was estimated to be home to over 50,000 free-tailed bats living under the tiles.

The problem was how to exclude the bats without disturbing or frightening the guests. We decided to wait until the facility closed for three months for major construction renovations to do the work.

We were given a window of 42 days to complete the exclusion of the entire facility.

III Method used

Many structures were roofed with cedar shake tiles which were permanently netted, some of the concrete structures were serviced using a flap & seal system, and one pavilion was in such disrepair it was first bat excluded, and after all the bats were gone, it was demolished.

Nine bat houses were installed at various areas of the facility.