Cave Activity Discouraged to Help Protect Bats from Deadly White-nose Syndrome

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Cave Activity Discouraged to Help Protect Bats from Deadly White-nose Syndrome
White-nose syndrome, a wildlife crisis of unprecedented proportions, has killed hundreds of thousands of bats from Vermont to West Virginia and continues unchecked. Now, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking those who use caves where bats hibernate