National Briefing | Rockies: Humans Banned From Caves in Effort to Protect Bats

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 01:14 in Biology & Nature

Thousands of caves and abandoned mines on federal land in five states will be off limits to explorers for the next year to prevent humans from spreading a disease that kills bats.

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