Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the…

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. BAT conservation international and the national park service will collaborate to annually conduct whitenose syndrome (WNS) spring surveillance, summer BAT population monitoring, seasonal BAT roost location identification and monitoring, winter hibernacula surveys, and opportunistic winter WNS sampling. The work will be conducted with the klamath inventory and monitoring network, mojave desert network, and the parks encompassed by these networks, including lava beds national monument. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public.