Effective August 1, 2013 the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region will be implementing an adaptive management strategy for white-nose syndrome (WNS) on national forests and grasslands in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Kansas. The adaptive management strategy replaces emergency cave closures that have been in place throughout the Region since 2010 when Pseudogymnoascus destructans … [Read more…]
Oklahoma WNS, False Positive
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center recently announced that the identification of the Pd fungus on a bat in Oklahoma was in fact a false positive and the state is no longer considered WNS “suspected”. Many public land managers are reviewing this latest information, but there have been no changes to policies as a result … [Read more…]