Then in 2018 WNS was detected in a western smallfooted bat (Myotis ciliolabrum) at Badlands National Park in occupied South Dakota. Wind Cave National Park is home to nine species of bats, including the threatened northern long-eared bat. The infection was detected there in 2021 and Wyoming Game and Fish discovered it at Devils Tower National Monument that same year.
In January of this year the US Fish and Wildlife Service extended the date to the end of March for reclassification of the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered.
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis has once again expressed her disapproval of the decision to upgrade the northern long-eared bat’s status to endangered – this time, in the form of a joint resolution. Lummis has railed against the listing upgrade since it was listed, sending a letter of concern alongside 11 other senators that the listing will leave “countless infrastructure project consultations in limbo." [Sundance Times]Insects coated with industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals in water supplies are weakening immune systems spreading WNS to bats as part of Earth's anthropogenic-driven sixth mass extinction. Last year Colorado officials found Pd in Baca, Larimer and Routt Counties now the National Park Service has detected the disease in a Yuma bat (Yuma myotis) near La Junta.
Colorado makes 39 states and seven Canadian provinces with the disease. [Colorado Sun]Imagine what herbicides are doing to species like Townsend’s Big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii) on the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.
The bat experts identified the next 15 years as crucial to the fight against white-nose syndrome, climate change and loss of habitat. Solutions include coordinated research and conservation, and opportunities for communities to create habitat and minimize disturbance to bats. pic.twitter.com/DEcKWCmYgD
— White Nose Bats (@USFWS_WNS) April 17, 2023
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