Watch it all in the new episode of NHTV’s ‘Off the Trail’
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth recently joined Ranger Eric Powers of the hit North Hempstead Television (NHTV) program “Off the Trail,” to hang a bat house along the Hempstead Harbor Trail. It was all part of the latest episode of the show, which also takes a look at the amazing sense of hearing of both bats and horses.
In the new episode, Ranger Powers also instructs viewers on how to easily build a bat house for their own backyard. With the assistance of Parks Department personnel, the bat house was hung in a cottonwood tree along the trail in order to control the insect population along. The Town of North Hempstead uses many environmentally safe methods of pesticide control, such as bat houses. Bats can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes per hour. Several bat houses have also been installed at Clark Botanic Garden with great success in controlling the insect population.
“Off the Trail” also visited the Nassau County Police Department’s Mounted Unit at Eisenhower Park to see how horses are trained and how their extraordinary sense of hearing helps them in their work. The episode will air in May on Channel 18/63 on Cablevision and Channel 46 on Verizon FIOS, or at www.mynhtv.com or https://youtu.be/uNAvtV0Ozwc.
