The Enterprise story, written by Brett Johnson, noted that Long has a personal interest in bats and wrote several scientific articles about the flying mammals before picking a bat to be one of two animals in her book that helps save a nine-year-old boy who fell in a cave in the Black Mountains of Nevada.
“I’ve been studying bats and their benefits to agriculture for more than 20 years now,” Long said. “They have tremendous value on our farms in helping with pest control. They eat a lot of insects — their body weight or more in a night," Long told the Enterprise.
“Even with how important bats are, they are so maligned. People are terrified of them. … My interest is with working with kids to teach them of the incredible world of bats, and how neat they really are.”
"Gold Fever" is available on Amazon.com at on the Tate Publishing website.