Hi all,
I just wanted to bring the SWR (and those lurking on this list) up-to-date
on the Carlsbad Caverns National Park (CAVE) Cave Inventory project. This
project was started in an effort to improve the information that is being
collected by the Carlsbad Caverns National Park Cave Inventory form. Its
goal is to provide a description and relevant photographs of each of the
inventory items on the form to make it easier for those doing inventory to
identify these resources in-cave. It is an online Wiki much like Wikipedia.
The results of the wiki are rendered into a book to be printed and made
available in places like the research huts at Carlsbad Caverns National
Park. Anyone can help with this project if they so desire. Many in the SWR
have already done so.
The base URL where this project is hosted is:
http://wiki.lubbockareagrotto.org/index.php?title=Cave_inventory. There you
can read about the project and how to go about helping with it. You can also
download a copy of the most recently rendered book -- just use the prominent
link in the upper right corner. Beware, though, the book is large.
If you would like to help with this effort, just send me an email message
and I will gladly create an account for you to use. Unlike Wikipedia, we are
not allowing anyone to edit without registering and logging in. This is to
reduce (so far, eliminate) spam and malicious changes to the wiki.
Thank you to all of those who have submitted photographs and descriptions
for the various cave inventory resources so far. The book is looking good;
but, we still need about 50 articles
(http://wiki.lubbockareagrotto.org/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages) and
a few of the articles still need images
(http://wiki.lubbockareagrotto.org/index.php?title=Category:Needs_image).
Also, if you know of any good references for desciptions of any of these
resources:
http://wiki.lubbockareagrotto.org/index.php?title=Category:Needs_references,
which are mostly biological or fossils, please let me know.
Please remember that while photographic credits are allowed, cave names and
locations should not be included. There is really no reason to identify the
location that a photograph was taken, just the resource shown. This is to
protect the caves.
Thanks,
William
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