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CAVE BATS and the CAVING MORATORIUMS
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5/7/2009 - I guess the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (US F & W) and the National Speleological Society (NSS) have put sorting hats on all of us. Are you going to abide by their caving moratoriums – or not? Their researchers, who will spend millions of our tax dollars to solve the White Nose Syndrome (WNS) malady that’s possibly causing many cave bats to die, have asked people (cavers in particular) to stay out of eastern US caves for an indefinite period. In the New England area as many as 95% of the cave bats are dead.. The researchers say they have reason to believe that the WNS fungus is being spread by cavers or other humans going into caves. If people don’t go into caves for a year and the malady continues to spread, that will indicate that people (cavers) aren’t really responsible for spreading WNS. If people don’t cooperate and continue to go caving, the only measurable result will be animosity between those who don’t go underground and those who do. Really a shameful result.
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