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One impressive cave system is the lava tube caves of Lava Beds National Monument. The caves provide a safe habitat for millions of bats. In order to visit the caves, visitors must first be screened for white-nose syndrome. It is a disease that is fatal to bats.

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The central idea of the paragraph is that the lava tube caves of Lava Beds National Monument are important habitats for bats, and measures are taken to protect them from a fatal disease called white-nose syndrome.