Meetings are held the third Thursday of the month at the Adventure Science Center (formerly the Cumberland Museum). The meeting starts at 7:00 pm, but join us at 6:30 for coffee, snacks, and fellowship. Our usual meeting room is upstairs on the second floor. If you need help finding us just stop by the information booth on the first floor and they'll point you to us.

White Nose Syndrome

White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is continuing to impact bats and caves in the Northeast and it is likely to move into Tennessee this winter. The Nashville Grotto strongly encourages cavers to observe caving moratoria in WNS-infected areas, and stresses the importance of proper gear decontamination after all caving trips.

For more information on WNS please see the NSS white nose page. http://www.caves.org/WNS/

For the latest Decontamination Procedures please Download the pdf


(Photo by Nancy Heaslip, New York Department of Environmental Conservation.)

What's Killing The Bats?

Submitted by joestewart on Thu, 2009-04-16 07:05

"Bats play a crucial role in maintaining the balance of nature and they're dying in record numbers in several U.S. states. As Daniel Sieberg reports, it's a mystery that has biologists baffled."

CBS News report from Aeolus Cave February 2009 about White Nose Syndrome. It aired April 5, 2009.


Watch CBS Videos Online

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4920589n

More info: http://www.batmanagement.com/wns/wns.html

and http://www.caves.org/WNS/WNS%20Info.htmRead more

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