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Acadia National Park is going to restore its historic Rockefeller gatehouses. Here’s how we’ll protect the imperiled bats that live there.

New technology makes it possible to record hundreds of thousands of songs in a short time. That could make protecting wild birds and other at-risk animals easier.

Bats are amazing animals and a formidable force against insect pests, but a nasty fungal disease is killing them. A coordinated national response brings hope.

Acadia National Park has one of the longest-running bat monitoring programs in the agency. A team of researchers modernized how the park processed its bat data. Now there are apps for that.

Researchers propose a correction factor to help compare the data obtained from two different microphones.

Activity and occurrence metrics are complementary but not interchangeable.

Bucking the trend for most cave-dwelling animals, one species of cave spider is widely dispersed across the U.S. Scientists wonder how.

A long-term study in a Utah cave shows that people’s exhalations have measurable impacts on cave waters and the growth of mineral formations.

A cave researcher summarizes the findings of developing, testing, and refining backcountry white-nose syndrome decontamination protocols.

This article is a review of recent bat and moth research at Congaree National Park. "Information Crossfile" department articles synopsize selected publications relevant to natural resource management. Unless noted, articles are not reviewed by reference source author(s).