Gomers -- What's going wrong

EFFIGY MOUNDS MANAGEMENT: Questions about past management at Effigy Mounds National Monument continue to mount. Two investigations by the National Park Service are under way. One focuses on officials who, according to 2010 news reports, allowed unauthorized construction of elevated trails and a maintenance shed at Effigy Mounds, where more than 200 American Indian burial and effigy mounds are preserved and can be accessed by the public. The latest troubling reports involve what happened to dozens of ancient human remains that were removed from the Effiy Mounds museum in 1990 - the same year Congress approved a law requiring such artifacts to be returned to descendants or tribal organizations. One box of remains wound up in a former park superintendent's home garage when he retired in 1994.

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BAD FOR BATS: The white-nose syndrome that has killed millions of bats in four Canadian provinces and 19 U.S. states, mostly in the Northeast and South, crossed the Mississippi River last week into Missouri. In Iowa, visitors to Maquoketa State Park caves must first attend a program on how to prevent spreading the fungus.