Posted January 30, 2015 10:34 pm by Comments

By Vanessa Torres

Dead bats with white-nose syndrome (inset) at a mine opening in Keweenaw County. Photo courtesy of Gina Nicholas.
Dead bats with white-nose syndrome (inset) at a mine opening in Keweenaw County. Photo courtesy of Gina Nicholas.
Michigan DNR
Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan-(Ammoland.com)-Today, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that it has received the first reports this winter of bats dying from white-nose syndrome.

Members of the public found dead bats outside the opening of an abandoned copper mine near Mohawk in Keweenaw County and reported it to DNR field staff.

White-nose syndrome was first discovered in Michigan in late winter 2014 in Alpena, Dickinson, Keweenaw, Mackinac and Ontonagon counties. Widespread die-offs of …read more

Via:: AmmoLand

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