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What Is White Nose Syndrome and What's Being Done About It?
When hikers in North Bend found a sick bat in March, they made what to wildlife experts was a shocking discovery: White nose syndrome, which has ravaged bat populations in the eastern U.S. for a decade, had jumped to this coast. Here’s why it's so scary.
“We’ve been dreading this.” —Mollie Matteson, senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, to The Huffington Post, on white nose syndrome’s jump to the West Coast
Photograph courtesy Ryan von Linden / New York Department of Environmental Conservation (Infected Bat), Shutterstock by Jun Kawaguchi (Map) and Petr Podrouzek (Bat). View image in new window
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