Re: [Texascavers] Caves of Nigeria

2014-05-14 Thread Buford Pruitt
Atlas des Cavites non Calcaires du Monde (Claude Chabert and Paul Courbon, 1997) lists one Nigerian cave in granite, one in lava, and six in sandstone (Speleobooks provided my copy). Five of the sandstone caves are listed from the southern state of Anambra and the sixth in Imo, in the SE part of

texascavers Digest 14 May 2014 14:11:45 -0000 Issue 1977

2014-05-14 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 14 May 2014 14:11:45 - Issue 1977 Topics (messages 23809 through 23826): Caves of Nigeria 23809 by: Preston Forsythe 23813 by: Mark Minton 23816 by: George Veni 23817 by: William Tucker 23819 by: Mark Minton 23820 by: Gill

[Texascavers] New subterranean catfish found in India

2014-05-14 Thread Louise Power
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/alien-catfish-baffles-scientists

Re: [SWR] Oklahoma removed from list of suspected bat fungus areas

2014-05-14 Thread Louise Power
As a federal employee, I have to say cavers are not the only publics we have to work with and try to satisfy And to say that we not going to be swayed by logic, reason or evidence that does not conform to their preconceived ideas, is a small-minded way to look at the situation. You could turn

Re: [SWR] Oklahoma removed from list of suspected bat fungus areas

2014-05-14 Thread Louise Power
This is leaving the realm of a discussion on the origin of WNS and jumping into the pile on government agencies because they don't agree with me area. Grow up and go throw your tantrum somewhere else in another country, perhaps, where you can freely criticize a government whose policies you

Re: [SWR] Fwd: Oklahoma removed from list of suspected bat fungus areas

2014-05-14 Thread Clifton Colwell
I am loving the parody... Weird al watch out... If only you record it in a cave On May 13, 2014 11:23 PM, Carl Pagano pagan...@comcast.net wrote: A llitle levity (the best I could come up with at a late hour-early apologies for this) Roughly-best sung to a popular Beatles song only in the

Re: [SWR] Oklahoma removed from list of suspected bat fungus areas

2014-05-14 Thread Clifton Colwell
The NSA will be compiling locations from these emails. Lysol drones will soon arrive to disinfect you all. Remember, Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Einstein On May 14, 2014 5:51 AM, Louise Power power_lou...@hotmail.com wrote: This is

Re: [SWR] Oklahoma removed from list of suspected bat fungus areas

2014-05-14 Thread Diana Tomchick
On May 14, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Stephen Fleming wrote: Maybe so, but this is where the role of the volunteer could step in to assist in cave management, and in fact this is already being done by various volunteer caving groups around the country. Join your local group (NSS, CRF, cave

[Texascavers] Sandstone caves

2014-05-14 Thread David
There is a small sandstone cave in Texas worth visiting once if you live within a 4 hour drive of it. The only reason cavers do not regularly visit it, is that it is about as remote as some of the caves in far west Texas. My theory about the cave, is that a natural water flow about that of a