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training video on deconning gear

Submitted by chrys hulbert on Tue, 2010-09-07 12:02

U.S. Forest Service and partners release training video on how to decontaminate caving gear:

http://www.fs.fed.us/invasivespecies/prevention/whitenosesyndrome.shtml

New website on White Nose Syndrome

Submitted by DaveWascher on Fri, 2010-07-09 17:14

Do you remember the student that had the WNS buttons that she brought to the grotto meeting a couple of months ago? She has collaborated with a couple of other students to create an excellent website on WNS. You can view it here:
http://sites.google.com/site/gstnteam36/

Discovery Channel teaches viewers how to kill bats

Submitted by DaveWascher on Fri, 2010-05-28 09:18

Call to Action - Discovery Channel teaches viewers how to kill bats

(Forwarded) A recent episode of Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild featured Bear

Grylls gleefully killing bats with a homemade club. The clip, which shows

Grylls throwing a flame in a cave to "smoke out" the bats, swatting them to

the ground and then stomping on them, has aired internationally and been

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Three more cases of white-nose syndrome in Tennessee

Submitted by chrys hulbert on Wed, 2010-05-12 15:27

Three more cases of white-nose syndrome in bats have been confirmed in Tennessee caves.
They were bats from Grindstaff Cave in Carter County, East Fork Saltpeter Cave in Fentress County and Camps Gulf Cave in Van Buren County
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100512/NEWS01/100512047/Bats+confirmed+with+white-nose+syndrome+in+more+TN+caves

Editor: corrected link

BCI applauds federal ruling on bat deaths

Submitted by DaveWascher on Fri, 2010-03-26 09:45

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