Hi all,
This is a quick recap of what occurred at the regional on Saturday.
Meeting began at 0900 hours.
There was no reading of the minutes as Mike brought the wrong computer. The
minutes of the Spring mtg will be read at the next regional.
The financial reprot was read and approved
As Chairman I determined that the current wording of the constitution
concerning majority votes was vague, but I believed the intent was to be a
majority of the votes cast by those present at the mtg was required for a
motion to pass. This meant that the motion and vote held at the Winter
Technical Mtg to support proposing to host the 2013 NSS Convention was a valid
vote and the motion did in fact pass.
There ensued considerable discussion over the almost total lack of support for
this motion by those present on Sauturday. Steve Peerman announced that he
would move at the next regional meeting to rescind the original motion passed
in December. By announcing this at this meeting, the motion to rescind will
only require a simple majority vote at the next meeting.
Of the members present only one individual spoke up in support of hosting the
2013 convention.
I then Exercised the option of the Chairman and proposed a motion to amend
By-law Two of the constitution. The last sentence of By-law Two currently
reads "Unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or By-laws, a majority of
the vote of the members present is necessary for the passage of any motion".
My proposal was to add the words "cast by" and remove the word "of" so that the
sentence would read: "Unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or
By-laws, a majority of the vote cast by the members present is necessary for
the passage of any motion". Motion was seconded by Steve Fleming. The vote on
this proposed change will occurr at the next regional meeting.
Two locations were discussed for the Labor Day Regional: First was the Malpais
East with Fort Stanton being a backup location if it can not be held at the
first option.
During the item on Bat counts I announced that we counted approximately 4500
bats at Yellowjacket Cave on Wednesday May 26th. This is a large number for
May. We also counted bats at Billy The Kid Cave on thursday the 27th. Over
the last two years we have counted approximately 30,000 myotis velifers exiting
the cave. On thursday the count was zero. This is alraming and we will
investigate to see if we can determine why there were no bats flying from the
cave on that night. BLM has been notified of the lack of bats.
Guests introduced at the end of the meeting were Patrick Mercer, a biologist
for the Sacramento District of the Lincoln National Forest (LNF) and Quentin
Hays a Wildlife Biologist under contract to the LNF. Patrich had gained
approval of the route that we were going to take to the cave.
Upon closing of the mtg we prepared to set off for the cave. While Patrick had
gained approval for us to use the proposed route, the roads had not beenn
driven. Along the way we found that there were several trees down across the
roads and some of the roads were very heavily eroded. We eventually came to
the insurmountable obstacle in a large pine tree across the road coupled with a
deep dip in the road. We had already been advised that if a bat was discovered
in the cave we would have to stop any further activity. Seeing as we were
approximately three miles from the cave it was decided that all but four of us
would turn back. Continuing on to the cave would be Bob Rogers on his four
wheeler to help ferry equipment, Newt Peterson as our other caver rep, Quentin
to identify the bats and Patrick as he had been to the entrance before and was
the FS representiive on site. When they reached the cave they found
approximately 20 bats in the dome over the guano pile which may or may not have
been Townsends. Quentin took photograps of the bats and a guano sample was
collected for testing. Upon leaving the cave it was discovered that Quentin
had no ascending gear with him so he had to use Bob's to get out of the cave.
All personnel arrived back in camp around 6 PM. At this time the cave must be
considered as closed until after the nursery season which would make the next
trip a September or early October trip. Saturday evening was a typical
regional night with thunderstorms and rain. Most of the cavers left Saturday
night or Sunday morning.
Ken
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass - It's about dancing in the
rain.
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