Eagle Scout project installs bat boxes at Price Park

Park staff told the committee that an Eagle Scout project at Price Park placed multiple bat boxes constructed by scouts from Elkhorn, Genoa City, Eagle and Burlington.

"My name is Mark James, and I am the Scoutmaster of the troop 243," Mark James told the committee, describing the project and saying scouts designed and built the boxes over several sessions. James said Jonah Kent executed the Eagle project and that the installations "went off without a hitch" and are currently in use.

County staff said the boxes help increase local bat populations, which provide free mosquito control, and thanked the Boy Scouts for their partnership. The committee expressed appreciation and encouraged further volunteer partnerships for future small projects.

Staff asked the scouts to keep the parks team informed as the Boy Scout troops pursue further partnership projects.