FEDS, 11 STATES CONTRIBUTE $1.37 MILLION FOR WNS RESEARCH
The Pennsylvania Game Commission and 11 states are working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through a State Wildlife Grant to heighten an ongoing coordinated regional response to White-Nose Syndrome, a rapidly advancing disorder that has killed hundreds of thousands of bats.
GAME COMMISSION URGES CLOSURES TO PREVENT SPREAD OF WNS
With White Nose Syndrome continuing to impact bat populations throughout the northeastern United States, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today are encouraging private landowners with caves to close entry to these sites as an added measure to prevent any spread of the fungus associated with this disease by humans. However, Calvin W. DuBrock, agency Bureau of Wildlife Management director, noted that this suggestion does not apply to commercially-operated caves.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=176529
