texascavers Digest 11 Dec 2013 16:40:55 - Issue 1896
Topics (messages 23147 through 23152):
Re: [SWR] Jewel Cave
23147 by: Mark Minton
Jewel Cave
23148 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
Link to NSS Bookstore Holiday Greetings
23149 by: Jacqueline Thomas
CBSP December
Dear Friends,
The 6th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC-VI) is coming to Idaho Falls,
Idaho, USA, on 17-22 August 2014 and I'm pleased to announce our Call for
Papers! This will be the first IWIC outside of Europe and an excellent
opportunity for North American ice scientists to
COOL!!
I checked out the Web site and am very impressed by the layout and style and
ease of use. Upon reading the fine print, I learned the Web site was created
and maintained by The Texas Caver editor, Jill Orr.
EXCELLENT JOB, JILL!
As George mentioned, this is the first time this
Dear Friends,
Below is a last minute announcement of a karst geoscience post-doctoral grant
from the Karst Research Institute in Slovenia. Notice the last paragraph. If
you are interested, you must contact the Institute at the address below by 15
December 2013. I know a number of people who
The Houston Chronicle web-site published an article today that sounded
like it was written by a middle-schooler making their first book report on their
swimming trip to Jacob's Well.
Describing the geology of the cave, it stated, the well was formed as
part of an underground aquaflow system.
The
Jacob's Well.
Ah,yes. To see what is beyond the gate, you should read Jacob's Well by Stephen
Harrigan . Those cavers that I hired to work on the Texas Natural Areas Survey
(which helped get Devil's Sinkhole, the Lower Canyons, Mt. Livermore, Devil's
River, Big Bend Ranch State Park,
2013 Conservation Activities Needed
The NSS needs your input. Each year the NSS must file an application
with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) in order to qualify to be
listed in the CFC donation database. The hardest part of the
application is to document the nationwide NSS Conservation
