GG kiss is correct, it was purely motivated by one guy's idiotic self-righteous crusade, and it didn't only affect the caves, it affected ALL climbing in the ranger district. Thanks to that pompuous fuck you can't use chalk at Meadow Camp anymore. What does that have to do with bats? The ONLY people I've seen at the caves or Meadow Camp before the ban were climbers. We're unfairly being targeted because we're an easy target, we're highly visible. Meanwhile all of the petroglyphs that Dry Canyon off Skyliner was covered with have been all chipped away.
Fuck the Forest di-service.