White-Nose Syndrome

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These links take you to more information from the Northeast Region as well as from other federal, state, and nongovernmental sources about white-nose syndrome in the Northeast and elsewhere.

• Photos and video of white-nose syndrome in bats. (USFWS)
• Map of white-nose syndrome by county, courtesy Cal Butchkoski, Pennsylvania Game Commission
  
• Presentation in two versions:
  • Slides on white-nose syndrome, April 2008. Web page format, 4.1 MB. Click on the screen icon in the lower right to see the slide full screen. Advance slides by clicking on the slide itself, use right click to select next, previous or exit.
  • PowerPoint on white-nose syndrome, April 2008. 2.5 MB. View online or download into PPT.
     
• National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wis., White-Nose Syndrome (USGS)
  • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2008-01, White-Nose Syndrome in Bats in the Northeastern U.S., April 30, 2008 (USGS)
  • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2008-03, Description of Fungus Associated with White-Nose Syndrome Nov. 10, 2008 (USGS)
     
• Bat Conservation and Management Inc., Northeast Bat Working Group
• Bat Conservation International
• National Speleological Society
   
• See more about white-nose syndrome in bats in the Midwest (USFWS)
• And about white-nose syndrome in bats in the Southeast (USFWS)
• Facts about the Indiana bat (USFWS)

• News release from Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection: DEP Announces Fungus Affecting Bat Population Identified in Connecticut (March 28, 2008)
• News release from New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection: Mysterious Illness Killing Bats in Northeast Prompts Precautions as Wildlife Researchers Search for Answers (Feb. 4, 2008)
• News release from New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation: Bat Die-Off Prompts Investigation — DEC Asks For Cavers' Help to Prevent Spread of "White Nose Syndrome" (Jan. 30, 2008)
  • "Bat Die-off Prompts Investigation," reprinted from the March 2008 issue of Environment DEC on the Web site of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
• News releases from Pennsylvania Game Commission: White-Nose Kills Hundreds of Bats in Lackawana County (Feb. 3, 2009) White-nose Syndrome Surfaces in Pennsylvania (Jan. 22, 2009); A Disturbing Unknown: When will we learn what is troubling the Northeast's bats? (Sept. 2, 2008); White Nose Syndrome: Is Pennsylvania Next? (May 7, 2008)
• News release from Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department: New Disease Threatens Northeastern Bats (Jan. 30, 2008)
• News release from West Virginia Division of Natural Resources: Thousands of Bats Dying in Caves in Northeast: State and Federal Agencies Trying to Keep White Nose Syndrome Out of West Virginia (Feb. 28, 2008)

• National Speleological Society: White Nose Syndrome: A major problem for both bats and the caving community
• Northeastern Cave Conservancy: Northeastern Cave Conservancy closes caves to combat white nose syndrome in bats (Sept. 25, 2008)
• Southeastern Cave Conservancy
• West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's West Virginia Field Office: Notice to Cavers No. 2 (16 June 2008), White Nose Syndrome - Update (PDF 32k)