According to the NPS, a sample collected in May confirmed the disease on a Townsend’s big-eared bat roosting in a mine at Canyonlands and in a sample collected from the floor of the same mine.

Honorable mentions in the competition also went to “Robert Battinson,” “Batt Damon,” “Sir Flaps-A-Lot the Townsend’s big-eared bat” and “Batlor Swift” — who promised not to hav ...