WNS Organization Structure (Draft 7.6)

Implementation: WNS Executive Committee Wendi Weber USFWS Anne Kinsinger USGS Peter Boice DoD Bert Frost NPS Linda Rundell BLM Tom DeLiberto APHIS Joel Holtrop USFS

Jon Gassett AFWA - Kentucky Bob Duncan (SE) Virginia Mark Reiter (MW ) Indiana Kristin Mansfield (W ) Washington Patricia Riexinger (NE) New York

Mike Lavoie Eastern Band Cherokee Indians Arnold Coyote Runs Crow Tribe Trudy Ecoffey Oglala Sioux Adam Ringia Pueblo of Laguna

Implementation: WNS Steering Committee

Paul Phifer USFWS Jonathan Sleeman USGS Eric Britzke DoD Margaret Wild NPS Dwight Fielder BLM Tom DeLiberto APHIS Anne Zimmermann USFS

Karen Waldrop AFWA - Kentucky Ray Fernald (SE) Virginia Erin Crain (MW ) Wisconsin Melinda Hickman (W ) Oklahoma Scott Darling (NE) Vermont

Implementation of the National Plan: Working Groups

1. Communications and Outreach •  National Communications Plan •  Lead: Ann Froschauer, USFWS, Nat’l Comm.

2. Data and Technical Info. Management •  Information sharing •  Lead: Laura Ellison, USGS FORT

Implementation of the National Plan: Working Groups

3.  Diagnostics •  Diagnostics protocols & case definitions •  Lead: Anne Ballmann, USGS-NWHC

4.  Disease Surveillance •  National Surveillance Plan •  Lead: Eric Britzke, ACOE-Research &

Development Center

Implementation of the National Plan: Working Groups

5.  Disease Management •  Decontamination •  Commercial/Show Cave Guidance •  Chemical Control •  Biological Control •  Environmental Manipulations •  Lead: Al Hicks, NYSDEC (retired)

Implementation of the National Plan: Working Groups

6.  Epidemiological and Ecological Research •  Etiology •  Pathogenesis •  Ecological Impacts •  Lead: Sybill Amelon, USFS, NRS

7. Conservation and Recovery •  Population Monitoring •  Species and Habitat Recovery •  Captive Management •  Lead: Becky Ewing, USFS, Eastern Rgn.

FY 2011 (est.) 2,779.72

889.76 2,000.00

535.00 80.00 10.00

200.00 413.00 889.00 1,395.00 1,515.00

1,793.98 5,003.57 9,988.35 8,009.48

Funding FY2012

FWS directed to "fund white nose syndrome research and response activities at no less than $4,000,000 from within Recovery." •  Internal/staffing •  State Support •  Research

Funding FY2012

FWS directed to "fund white nose syndrome research and response activities at no less than $4,000,000 from within Recovery." •  Internal/staffing •  State Support •  Research

•  Competitive SWG??

Pressing Tasks

1. Estimate total mortality

2. Assess and understand remaining bat populations post-WNS