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Nashville- Franklin and Cumberland counties throw me as well?Pippin wrote:So I was just wasting time on Facebook and noticed that FWS has posted a new map of WNS counties in Tennessee. Franklin, Cumberland, and Hancock counties are now affected. I have no idea what caves, what species, or if there's any mortality. Nobody "in the know" seems to feel it's necessary to actually share that information with anyone. If any of you know more about this, please share with the rest of us.
Pippin wrote: Seems like agencies would kinda want cavers to know about a confirmed site so close to a big weekend event.
tncaver wrote:I find it ironic that WNS is being found mostly in caves that are closed. There is still a lot of caving going on in TN but very little spreading of WNS. The spread still seems just as slow as bat migration is from cave to cave rather than the rapid rate of cave visitation by cavers.
NZcaver wrote:tncaver wrote:I find it ironic that WNS is being found mostly in caves that are closed. There is still a lot of caving going on in TN but very little spreading of WNS. The spread still seems just as slow as bat migration is from cave to cave rather than the rapid rate of cave visitation by cavers.
I wonder if the vast myriad of relatively harmless random spores tracked in and out of caves by humans might help to counteract the GD spores bats carry in?
Meh, just another wild-ass theory which would be difficult to prove.
tncaver wrote:NZcaver wrote:tncaver wrote:I find it ironic that WNS is being found mostly in caves that are closed. There is still a lot of caving going on in TN but very little spreading of WNS. The spread still seems just as slow as bat migration is from cave to cave rather than the rapid rate of cave visitation by cavers.
I wonder if the vast myriad of relatively harmless random spores tracked in and out of caves by humans might help to counteract the GD spores bats carry in?
Meh, just another wild-ass theory which would be difficult to prove.
It does seem odd that the most cases of WNS seem to be in caves that are closed, and/or are being checked by bat biologists. VERY ODD.
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