Oregon was one of about a dozen states that have avoided the disease and the fungus that causes it since it first showed up 20 years ago in New York
A deadly fungal disease that has put at least one bat species on the federal Endangered Species List has been detected in Oregon for the first time.
State Fish and Wildlife officials on Wednesday announced that scientists from the National Wildlife Health Center in March identified six bats in Columbia and Benton counties suffering from white-nose syndrome…