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Ok, so I joined the NSS and will purchase the bulletins detailing cave locations and maps in WV. We cannot make the locations public according to our terms of use. We will propose a survey of animals entering caves by placing camera traps at the entrance of selected caves. If approved, WVFooter and I will place cameras and service them for an extended period of time, we're committing to two years. We should be able to get permission from the National Forest Service (an NSS member) and provide data to the NSS twice per year, maybe publish a "bulletin" with the results. We will not be entering the caves, just monitoring the entrance. This will ease concerns of cave contamination and facilitate a permit. There are hundreds of caves in WV, over 1000 known in the state and about 500 around our research area. I personally do not think any evidence of BF will result from this, but I'm willing to leave no "stone unturned". The caving guys and gals have been all over these caves and found nothing, as far as we know. Maybe they're holding back... we'll see. Aside from the BF angle, we might discover an animal which uses the caves and carries the WNS virus into the caves. A win-win.

There is no blob there though. It's only a play on the shadows.. I fully examined and it's only shadows. I taking it you mean the small blob at the base of that large slanted tree. Just shadows from the tree's on the left side of it.. There is no animal in this picture even though it looks like something hunkered down with an extremely long tail... The only way to recreate this is to take another photo at the same time of day the photo was taken, and same time/month/date of the year the photo was taken for the shadows to take effect. Providing all the same trees are still there.

Absolutely nothing other than the natural surroundings..

I see trees & foliage when I look at it. There could be more, but it turns into pareidolia at that point.. Cheers!