Are Spelunkers Carrying the White Nose Syndrome?

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Re: Are Spelunkers Carrying the White Nose Syndrome?

Postby Cheryl Jones » Jul 3, 2011 10:42 am

The Forest Service would need to cover all the bases so they wouldn't strike out with the fans. They may run afoul with the players though, who may not go for their pitch about WNS: Save the bats, ban baseball.

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Re: Are Spelunkers Carrying the White Nose Syndrome?

Postby BrianC » Jul 3, 2011 2:38 pm

Cheryl Jones wrote:The Forest Service would need to cover all the bases so they wouldn't strike out with the fans. They may run afoul with the players though, who may not go for their pitch about WNS: Save the bats, ban baseball.

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way to funny! :rofl:
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Re: Are Spelunkers Carrying the White Nose Syndrome?

Postby ON_ROPE » Jul 5, 2011 8:13 pm

Stadiums are officially critical habitat. In biology the first site an organism is described in a state is forever more in the literature the "Type Locality" The type locality for the endangered Grey Bat in Georgia is Stanford Stadium in Athens Georgia. The Georgia Bulldogs play football there. One argument we used in avoiding a blanket cave closure in Georgia was the possibility of the unintended consequence of requiring a closure of Stanford Stadium to protect a bat. No scientist was that brave! One other argument was a blanket closure of all caves would have closed numerous underwater caves. Lots of bats in those underwater caves for sure!
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