Post by Brian Roebuck on May 6, 2011 5:36:18 GMT -5
If you plan on venturing into the Oregon Caves, don't wear clothing worn in any bat hangout east of the Rocky Mountains within the past six years.
That also goes for footwear or hiking gear worn into a hibernacula, a place where bats hibernate. "If we don't screen visitors for this, and the white-nose syndrome is found here, we could have to close down the caves," stressed John Roth, a natural resource specialist at Oregon Caves National Monument.
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That also goes for footwear or hiking gear worn into a hibernacula, a place where bats hibernate. "If we don't screen visitors for this, and the white-nose syndrome is found here, we could have to close down the caves," stressed John Roth, a natural resource specialist at Oregon Caves National Monument.
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