white nose syndrome

From the US Fish & Wildlife Service

“It is with heavy hearts that we announce today the confirmation of white-nose syndrome in the state of Washington. This detection is about 1,300 miles from areas where white-nose syndrome has been confirmed in Minnesota and where the fungus has been found in Nebraska.”

https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/what-can-you-do-help

WNS Washington state

Posted on April 1, 2016, updated on May 3, 2016 by The Refuge

https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/sites/default/files/resource/final-cave_access_advisory_2016_2.pdf

Recommendations to reduce the potential for humans to disturb hibernating bats or inadvertently transport the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome to uncontaminated bat habitats. This guidance was produced by the interagency national response to white-nose syndrome through the White-nose Syndrome Disease Management Working Group.

https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/resource/updated-cave-advisory-recommendations-managing-access-subterranean-bat-roosts-reduce

Posted on March 28, 2016, updated on May 3, 2016 by The Refuge

WNS jumps the Rockies

Udated “Cave Advisory”

Updated “Cave Advisory”: Recommendations for managing access to subterranean bat roosts to reduce the impacts of white-nose syndrome in bats