White-Nose Syndrome Found at Two Kentucky State Parks

[boogercaver71]

On the same line, Mammoth Cave National Park no longer requires visitors to splash through the boot bath on the way into the cave. This was supposed to help prevent WNS. Seems all the disinfectant used to de-con was being tracked into the cave and doing harm to all the other biota in the cave.
And, yes, WNS is in MCNP -- ironically in one of the caves that is closed and off limits to all but certain elite researchers. So how did it get there?
Cavemud and Crockett are right - closure is bad management. Simply intellectual arrogance on the part of managers who feel that they can out-think Mother Nature.

The visitors went through the boot baths on the way out, not the way in.