texascavers Digest 12 Feb 2014 17:47:40 -0000 Issue 1928 Topics (messages 23382 through 23389):
Re: Webinar Invitation: Join us for "Cave Rescue: When saving time means saving
lives. How to do a safe and effective cave search. Rene Ohms"
23382 by: Geary Schindel
23384 by: Aubri Jenson
A true love story
23383 by: BMorgan994.aol.com
Honey Creek Cave, Haulers Needed (March 1st & March 22nd)
23385 by: ellie.thoene.gmail.com
The last work session
23386 by: Ron Ralph
Houston related - a guest room
23387 by: David
Re: [Mocaves] Corvettes meet terrible demise in sinkhole at museum
23388 by: Bill Bentley
Conservation and Management of Bat Resources
23389 by: Julia Germany
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--- Begin Message ---In case you didn’t see this. There is a webinar tonight (Tuesday, February 11, 2014). Feel free to pass this along to any grotto list serves out there. Geary Schindel Cave Rescue: When saving time means saving lives. How to do a safe and effective cave search. Presenter: Rene Ohms NCRC Instructor Join us for a Webinar on February 11 [http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/webinar/themes/basic/button_registerNow.gif]<https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/160279599> Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/160279599 Searching for a lost person(s) in a cave can be a daunting task and time is your enemy. In this CaveNet presentation, Rene will teach you what factors to consider when faced with a lost subject(s). How to save time by limiting your search area, strategies for deploying search teams, effective underground search techniques and how to keep your search team safe and accounted for. Rene Ohms is an NCRC instructor, and has been involved with the National Cave Rescue Commission since 1999. She is an experienced caver, cave surveyor, climber, and works for the National Park Service at Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. Rene has also worked at Jewel and Wind Cave in South Dakota. Join us for this excellent Cave Rescue presentation. All CaveNet webinars are recorded and stored on the NSS website http://www.caves.org/ for future viewing or downloading. Please arrive at least 10 minutes early to ensure your place in this webinar. Title: Cave Rescue:When saving time means saving lives. How to do a safe and effective cave search. Presenter: Rene Ohms Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST (Which is 9PM ET/ 7PM MT/ 6PM PT. Please be aware of your time zone) After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Mac®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer Mobile attendees Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet<<attachment: winmail.dat>>
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--- Begin Message ---I've signed up for this and can show it on the big screen at Longspur. Let me know if you want to join! Aubri 512-284-1500 On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Geary Schindel < [email protected]> wrote: > > In case you didn't see this. > > There is a webinar tonight (Tuesday, February 11, 2014). > > Feel free to pass this along to any grotto list serves out there. > > Geary Schindel > > > > > > > > > Cave Rescue: When saving time means saving lives. How to do a safe and > effective cave search. > > Presenter: Rene Ohms NCRC Instructor > > > Join us for a Webinar on February 11 > > > [ > http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/webinar/themes/basic/button_registerNow.gif > ]<https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/160279599> > > > Space is limited. > Reserve your Webinar seat now at: > https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/160279599 > > > Searching for a lost person(s) in a cave can be a daunting task and time > is your enemy. In this CaveNet presentation, Rene will teach you what > factors to consider when faced with a lost subject(s). How to save time by > limiting your search area, strategies for deploying search teams, effective > underground search techniques and how to keep your search team safe and > accounted for. > > Rene Ohms is an NCRC instructor, and has been involved with the National > Cave Rescue Commission since 1999. She is an experienced caver, cave > surveyor, climber, and works for the National Park Service at Devils Tower > National Monument in Wyoming. Rene has also worked at Jewel and Wind Cave > in South Dakota. > > Join us for this excellent Cave Rescue presentation. All CaveNet webinars > are recorded and stored on the NSS website http://www.caves.org/ for > future viewing or downloading. > > Please arrive at least 10 minutes early to ensure your place in this > webinar. > > > Title: > > Cave Rescue:When saving time means saving lives. How to do a safe and > effective cave search. > Presenter: Rene Ohms > > Date: > > Tuesday, February 11, 2014 > > Time: > > 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST (Which is 9PM ET/ 7PM MT/ 6PM PT. Please be aware of > your time zone) > > > After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing > information about joining the Webinar. > > > System Requirements > PC-based attendees > Required: Windows(R) 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server > > > Mac(R)-based attendees > Required: Mac OS(R) X 10.6 or newer > > > Mobile attendees > Required: iPhone(R), iPad(R), Android(tm) phone or Android tablet > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
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--- Begin Message ---The above referenced post is insufficiently dark for the cave list so I hereby offer a "Stumpy" joke: Stumpy and his wife Martha went to the state fair every year. Every year Stumpy would say, "Martha, I'd like to ride in that there airplane." And every year Martha would say, "I know Stumpy, but that airplane ride costs 10 dollars, and 10 dollars is 10 dollars." One year Stumpy and Martha went to the fair and Stumpy said, "Martha, I'm 71 years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year, I may never get another chance." Martha replied, "Stumpy, that there airplane ride costs 10 dollars, and 10 dollars is 10 dollars." The pilot overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a deal. I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't charge you, but if you say one word, it'll be 10 dollars." Stumpy and Martha agreed and up they went. The pilot did all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word was heard. He did all his tricks over again, but still not a word. They landed and the pilot turned to Stumpy, "By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you didn't." Stumpy replied, "Well, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out, but 10 dollars is 10 dollars."
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--- Begin Message ---Tank Haulers Unite! We need your help to haul gear and support Dr. Jean Krejca, James C Brown, David Moore, and Matt Turner as they Explore, Radio Locate, and Survey Upstream Sump 3 and beyond. March 1st and March 22nd, Saturday only. In order for the trip to be a success, we need at least 40 cavers each weekend to help haul gear. Currently we only have 19 people for the first weekend. Please contact me off list if you think you can come and what dates. Right now we need help most this first weekend to get the party started so come on out and spread the word! Honey Creek is the longest cave in Texas at over 20 miles long. It is a water cave and you will need a wetsuit and harness with d-ring to be lowered on cable down a man-made shaft. The trip to the sump typically takes 6 hours each way and includes walking, salamandering, crawling, and "The Mud and The Crud". The trip is challenging but very fun. This is not a beginner cave so please only refer/bring people with the skills necessary to successfully and safely complete the trip. Please spread the word. *TRIP LOGISTICS* On March 1st, cavers will haul gear to Sump 1 for Jean, James, Matt, and David to begin their 4-day underground camp/exploration. The divers will split up their gear into individual loads on the surface, cavers will choose a load,and each person/team is responsible for taking their load to the sump.Once cavers get to the sump, they can abandon their gear and head back to the surface for an evening of reverie. On March 22nd, cavers will go to Sump 1 and haul gear out of the cave. We will have some large packs to carry loads. We recommend using the group packs because they need to stay in the cave both weekend in order haul group gear out on January 26th but bring large packs if you have them to spare for both weekends. It would be good to bring a small pack for personal gear to haul out of the cave. Camping is available both weekends and we will enter the cave around 9am. The cave will be open to haulers on Sunday, March 2nd for thru trips to the Natural Entrance. Ellie Watson 509-899-0007 [email protected] Facebook Event Page:https://m.facebook.com/events/179477322242283
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--- Begin Message ---Cavers, Our next scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas Speleological Survey will be this Wednesday, February 12th, at the JJ Pickle Research Center. We have decided to discontinue work sessions, so this will be the last in a many year series of evening work. We will be reinstating our “open house weekend” series beginning on the last week-end in March or the first week-end in April. Stay tuned for date and time although it will probably be all day Saturday. Details will follow as plans evolve. The office manager, Jim Kennedy, will be running the open house so address your questions to him. Another open house weekend will be held next fall. We hope to have several workshops running concurrently. We hope to offer computer map making, cave survey for beginners, cave photography tips, how to submit cave data to the database and other subjects of interest. Feel free to make suggestions if there are any subjects dear to your heart. At the ultimate work session, we will be looking through the files for various cave locations in Texas, inventorying the Chuck Stuehm collection and working on Williamson County. Come by and help search the files. If you have a desire to search for your own data, the files and unpublished maps will be made available. Both publication sales and the library will be open. Use the front entrance on Burnet Road north of highway 183. The door will be open at 5:00 p.m. and stay open till we adjourn. Remember it is best to arrive before 6:00 pm and drinks are on me. Parking permits are only necessary during the day and evenings are free, so don’t worry about parking tickets. If you have questions, please contact me at [email protected] or call my cell. I will be happy to send you a link to the map of the Campus if you need directions or guide you in from the front gate. Ron Ralph Cell: 797-3817
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--- Begin Message ---If any cavers find themselves in downtown Houston, looking for a place to sleep, then I "might" have an option for you. My slumlord has evicted my floormates in the old quadriplex where I live, and I have convinced him that he should consider renting the entire floor to me. Meanwhile, he says I can use the apartment for free until the March rent is due, or the next tenants move in. So I am house-sitting for 2 weeks, while I search for a way to fit this expansion into my budget. I need to find a roommate who needs to live near downtown Houston so bad, that they would live in sub-human standards. Then I could afford to rent it and clean the place up. The ideal person would be a student at University of Houston Downtown, or courthouse employee. The slumlord and I have settled on a price, but my budget is too unstable to shake his hand on the deal. This is a unique opportunity to visit a part of Texas few people would dare enter. It is the most dangerous place I have ever visited in my entire life. However, it will be much safer, if I can prevent more hoodrats from moving in next to me. David Locklear 2506 Keene St. Apt. # 1, Houston, TX, 77009 281-995-8487 ( text-line )
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--- Begin Message ---Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID (junky technology) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Mocaves] Corvettes meet terrible demise in sinkhole at museum From: Charity Hertzler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] CC: Just saw this headline come across my desk this morning. Corvettes are falling into a sinkhole that opened up in the middle of the Corvette museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. http://www.ky3.com/news/nation/Cars-fall-into-sinkhole-at-Corvette-Museum/-/21049024/24430132/-/nxgf6jz/-/index.html Charity Hertzler President, Springfield Plateau Grotto _______________________________________________ Mocaves mailing list [email protected] http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mocaves _______________________________________________ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
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--- Begin Message ---Hi All! Congrats to Bat Conservation International on their funding from the BLM for a coop agreement for the Conservation and Management of Bat Resources on BLM-managed lands. Please forward to anyone who you think might be interested in this information. Below is the funding information that was released today: This is a notice of intent to make an award to Bat Conservation International FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION Project Background Information: The conservation of bats is extremely important to proper ecosystem function due to their role in pollination, as seed dispersers, and as primary predators of night-flying insects, including many harmful crop pests. BLM-administered lands, particularly in the western U.S., provide essential habitat for more than 80% of the bat species known from the U.S., including endangered species. Bats are more susceptible than ever to activities that affect their habitat and populations because of White-Nose Syndrome, a devastating disease that causes massive die-offs of bats. This fungal disease has been rapidly spreading across the U.S. and Canada since it first appeared in upstate New York in 2006. So far, it has not reached western BLM lands, but has spread as far west as Oklahoma. Many of the multi-resource uses of BLM lands can have substantial effects, both positive and negative, on bat habitat and populations, this includes energy development (e.g., wind power, oil and gas, and solar); grazing; abandoned mine reclamation and active mining; recreational use of caves and other underground features; and other land management actions. The negative effects of these resource uses on bat populations and habitat can be ameliorated through the development and application of Best Management Practices, habitat protection and enhancement measures, and mitigation. Specialists who work on developing and applying conservation measures on public lands across the U.S. will be able to help the BLM to conserve, restore, and enhance bat resources on BLM-administered lands. The purpose of this assistance agreement is to improve the conservation of bats by developing and implementing specific tasks on BLM-administered lands in the U.S. Project Objective: Develop best management practices that can be considered and incorporated, where appropriate, in to BLM wildlife policy, planning, and management actions at the national, state, and field office levels. Develop technical assistance, training, and other tools to assist BLM staff with the evaluation of proposed and ongoing land management actions, as well as changing climate, on bat habitats and populations. Develop bat education and awareness outreach materials to communicate within the BLM and to partners and the public about the importance of bat resources on public lands and to encourage cooperative efforts to conserve bat habitats and populations. Facilitate the BLM’s involvement in cooperative efforts to conserve bats including local, regional, and national bat conservation plans, programs, and initiatives; state and regional bat working groups; State Wildlife Action Plans; national, state, and regional WNS recovery efforts; and the North American Bat Monitoring Initiative. Period of Agreement: 5 years from notice of award. Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000 Assistance Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
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