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• Acadia National Park
  • News Release (pdf, March 20, 2012)

• Alabama Bat Working Group
  • Alabama White-nose Syndrome Management Plan

•  Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
  • White-nose Syndrome

• Bat Conservation International
  • White-nose Syndrome

• Boston University
  • News releases:
    • Bats Worth Billions to Agriculture, Pest-Control Services at Risk (pdf, April 1, 2011)
    • New Study Highlights Importance of Ecosystem Services Provided by Bats (pdf, April 1, 2011)

• Bucknell University

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
  • Colorado BLM
  • Idaho BLM
  • New Mexico BLM
  • Wyoming BLM

• Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre
  • White-nose syndrome found in Ontario
  • Map: WNS in Ontario

• Colorado Bat Working Group

• Colorado Division of Wildlife
• White-nose syndrome in bats
• White-Nose Syndrome in Bats Response Plan (pdf, January 2011)

• Columbia University

• Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
  • News releases:
    • White Nose Syndrome Continues to Decimate Bat Populations: Outlook for Connecticut's Bats is Bleak (April 20, 2010)
    • DEP says CT Bat Population Hit Hard by White Nose Syndrome: Severity of Syndrome will Reduce Number of Bats this Summer (March 17, 2009)
    • DEP Announces Fungus Affecting Bat Population Identified in Connecticut (March 28, 2008)

• Cornell University

• Disney World

• Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Enviornmental Control
  • Program
  • White-nose Syndrome and monitoring bats in Delaware for the deadly disease
  • News releases:
    • White-nose syndrome detected in Delaware bats (March 29, 2012)
      
    • Fungus associated with white-nose syndrome detected in Delaware bats (April 30, 2010)
    • Bats in your belfry? DNREC continues to monitor state's bat population for white-nose syndrome. (Jan. 21, 2010)
    • Division of Fish & Wildlife's Delaware Bat Count 2009 gets set to take wing (July 6, 2009)
    • Delaware Bats Monitored for White-nose Syndrome (June 19, 2009)

• Eastern Michigan University

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • News release (pdf, March 20, 2012)

• Illinois Department of Natural Resurces
  • News release
    • IDNR Closing State Owned and Managed Caves: Move intended to help slow spread of white-nose syndrome killing bats in northeastern states and recently confirmed in the Midwest (April 26, 2010)

• Indiana Department of Natural Resources
  • Bat Disease
  • News release
    • Bats test positive for WNS fungus in Indiana (February 1, 2011)
    • DNR closes caves to slow bat disease spread (May 1, 2009)

• Indiana State University Department of Biology Center for North American Bat Research and Conservation

• Iowa Department of Natural Resources
  • Rapid Spreading Disease Prompts Closure of Caves Where Bats Hibernate (April 29, 2010)

• Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
  • News release
    • White-nose syndrome confirmed in Kentucky (April 13, 2011)

• Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
  • White-Nose Syndrome in Maine
  • News release:
    • Bat Disease, White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Maine (pdf, May 24, 2011)
  • Flickr set of Maine WNS Survey

• Maryland Department of Natural Resources
  • News releases:
    • White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Bats From Western Maryland Cave (March 18, 2010)
    • Bat Disease Found in Western Maryland Cave: White-Nose Syndrome is likely cause (March 10, 2010)

• Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Bat Mortality in Massachusetts (July 17, 2009)
  • News releases:
    • Bats on your property? Report colonies to MassWildlife (July 17, 2009)
    • Bat Mortalities in Massachusetts (March 10, 2008)

• Michigan Department of Natural Resources
  • Michigan Emerging Disease Issues, White-Nose Syndrome
  • News Releases:
    • Michigan bats show no signs of WNS (June 14, 2011)

• Midwest Bat Working Group

• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

• Mississippi Bat Working Group

• Missouri Department of Conservation
  • News release
    • WNS confirmed in Missouri (April 2, 2012)
    • MDC monitoring new bat disease in Missouri (April 19, 2010)

• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  • Bats and White-Nose Syndrome Resources

• National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

• National Military Fish and Wildlife Association Bat Working Group

• National Park Service
  • Cumberland Gap NHP: What is killing our bats? (pdf)
  • Mammoth Cave National Park WNS page
    • White-Nose Syndrome Response Plan (pdf, January 2011)
  • New River Gorge National River
    • News Release: White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Park Bats (April 18, 2011)
  • NPS Digest: Bat Tests Postive For White Nose Syndrome Fungus
  • News release
    • Great Smoky Mountains National Park podcast highlights white-nose syndrome (January 18, 2011)
    • Ozark National Scenic Riverways Closes Caves (May 2010)
    • Great Smoky Mountains National Park Bat Tests Positive for White Nose Syndrome Fungus (April 19, 2010)

• National Speleological Society
  • White-Nose Syndrome Page

• The Nature Conservancy
  • The Bat Diaries, Reports from the Field

• New Brunswick Museum
  • News release
    • New Brunswick Museum Researchers discover bat-killing fungus in New Brunswick, Canada (March 29, 2011)
      • Map

• New Brunswick Natural Resources

• New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
  • Bats of New Hampshire
  • News releases:
    • Winter Surveys Show White Nose Syndrome Significantly Affecting N.H. Bats (April 12, 2010)
    • White Nose Syndrome Affects N.H. Bats this Summer; Peterborough Colony Decimated (July 10, 2009)
    • White Nose Syndrome Seen in Bats in N.H. Hibernaculum (Feb. 23, 2009)

• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
  • News release
    • Mysterious Illness Killing Bats in Northeast Prompts Precautions as Wildlife Researchers Search for Answers (Feb. 4, 2008)

• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  • News release:
    • 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.

• New York State Department of Health

• North Carolina Bat Working Group

• North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
  • White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance and Response Plan for North Carolina (pdf, September 2011)
  • News release:
    • Deadly bat malady found in North Carolina (February 9, 2011)

• Northeast Bat Working Group

• Northeastern Cave Conservancy, Inc.

• Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
  • News release:
    • Early Signs of White-Nose Syndrome Spreading to Bats (April 18, 2011)

• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
  • News release
    • White-nose syndrome confirmed in Ohio (March 30, 2011)

• The Ohio State University Extension
  • Ohio Woodlands, Water and Wildlife Newsletter

• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
  • Bats and White Nose Syndrome
  • News release
    • White Nose Syndrome Detected in Ontario Bats: McGuinty Government Continues to Monitor Hibernation Sites (March 19, 2010)

• Organization for Bat Conservation

• Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
  • News release
    • Bat hibernating sites in Forest & Westmoreland counties remain closed to visitors (April 28, 2009)

• Pennsylvania Game Commission
  • News releases:
    • Agencies and Partners Intensify WNS Research to Save Bats (Oct. 12, 2010)
    • Game Commission tracks white-nose syndrome in bats: Three years later, hibernating bats continue to fall to this disorder (Jan. 12, 2010)
    • Feds, 11 States Contribute $1.37 Million for WNS Research (May 7, 2009)
    • 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)

• Québec Ministry of Natural Resources
  • Syndrome du museau blanc chez les chauves-souris
  • News release
    • White-nose syndrome in bat populations - The presence of the syndrome is confirmed in Quebec (April 13, 2010)

• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
  
  • Protocol for Wildlife Rehabilitator Response to Hibernating Bats Affected with WNS (2011)

• South Dakota Bat Working Group

• Southeastern Bat Diversity Network

• Speleobooks

• Tennessee Bat Working Group

• Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
  • News releases:
    • Three More Cases of White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed from Tennessee Caves (March 12, 2010)
    • Bat in Dunbar Cave Tested Positive for White Nose Syndrome (March 24, 2010)
    • TWRA Confirms First Cases of White Nose Syndrome in Tennessee Bats (Feb. 16, 2010)

• Texas Bat Working Group

• Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
  • TPWD White-Nose Syndrome
  • News Release
    • TPWD Restricting Cave Access on Agency Owned Land to Protect Bats" with date (August 6, 2010)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • Southern Research Station
  • News Release
    • Deadly Fungus Threatens 9 Bat Species in GA, KY, NC, SC and TN, Expert Says (April 7, 2010)

• U.S. Department of Defense
• Legacy Resource Management Program, Natural Selections (Oct. 2009)

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service activities to address white-nose syndrome in bats (October 2009)
  • News releases:
    • $450,000 in grants goes to states for white-nose syndrome work (May 5, 2010)
    • Fish and Wildlife Service Awards $800,000 in Grants to Explore Cause, Control of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats (Oct. 26, 2009)
    • Cave activity discouraged to help protect bats from deadly white-nose syndrome (March 26, 2009)

• U.S. Forest Service
  • News release:
    • Forest Service Considering Restrictions for Northern Region Caves (pdf, May 11, 2011)
    • Forest Service issues emergency order to close caves and abandoned mines to protect bat species from fatal disease (July 27, 2010)
      
    • White-Nose Syndrome Special Emphasis Funding - FY 2010 (PDF 404k)
    • Fort Collins Science Center

• U.S. Geological Survey
  • National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wis., White-Nose Syndrome
    • Indiana and North Carolina: White-Nose Syndrome in Bats Confirmed (February 18, 2011)
    • Revised Case Definitions for White-Nose Syndrome and Winter 2010/2011 Bat Submission Guidelines (February 01, 2011)
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2010-03, White-Nose Syndrome: New Locations in Missouri, Tennessee and Quebec (April 20, 2010 )
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2010-02, White-Nose Syndrome: New Locations in Canada, Maryland and Tennessee Confirmed (March 25, 2010)
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2010-01, Update on White-Nose Syndrome: Tennessee Finding (Feb. 19, 2010)
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2009-03, Update on White-Nose Syndrome, Dec. 11, 2009
    • Investigating White-Nose Syndrome in Bats (July 2009)
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2009-02, Wildlife Disease Updates: White-Nose Syndrome, Avian Influenza Surveillance, Bat Rabies and other NWHC Updates, Aug. 31, 2009
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2008-03, Description of Fungus Associated with White-Nose Syndrome Nov. 10, 2008
    • Wildlife Health Bulletin 2008-01, White-Nose Syndrome in Bats in the Northeastern U.S., April 30, 2008
  • Fort Collins Science Center

• University of California, Davis

• University of Tennessee
  • News release
    • UT Professor Finds Economic Importance of Bats in the Billions (March 2011)

• Vermont Fish and Wildlife
  • News release
    • New Disease Threatens Northeastern Bats (Jan. 30, 2008)

• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's National Heritage Program
• Virginia's Bats
• What is Killing Our Bats (poster, part 1)
• What is Killing Our Bats (poster, part 2)
• Bats of Virginia
• Virginia Cave and Karst Protection

• Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

• Washington Department Fish and Wildlife
  • Wildlife Health: White-Nose Syndrome in Bats

• West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
  • News releases:
    • West Virginia's most important bat cave has white-nose syndrome (Feb.23, 2009)
    • Lab Results Confirm White-nose Syndrome in West Virginia Bats (Feb. 23, 2009)
    • Bats From West Virginia Caves Being Tested For White-nose Syndrome(Feb. 13, 2009)
    • 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)

• Western Bat Working Group

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  • Saving Wisconsin Bats

• Wyoming Game and Fish Department
  • Wyoming WNS Strategic Plan (pdf, 9.49MB, June 6, 2011)
  • Wyoming Game and Fish WNS Brochure (pdf, June 6, 2011)

• and others...

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