Thanks for all of the work you have done for us Ken. I'm glad to see these caves back open to us. I recently had asked for permits for a couple of these (within the last month) and was denied.
Charles - cavetex list administrator On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ken Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some day i will remember that that the nmcaver routing does not allow > attachments. > > > > So.... > > > > The following is a recreation of a document that I got from the Forest > Service this morning. Please be aware that this is a draft document. > > Up dated 03/04/2010 > > The Lincoln National Forest is opening a limited number of caves for > recreational caving. The limited number of caves is due to the limited > amount of time that qualified personnel are able to conduct the monitoring > requirements. The monitoring will be done with assistance from cave > specialist with other federal government agencies (BLM, NPS) in the area. > The normal regulations will apply with the following provisions: > > 1. The permit request will be required two weeks in advance of the date of > the permit. > > 2. Permitted groups may be accompanied by a Forest Service representative > for monitoring purposes. > > 3. The Forest Service representative has the authority to end any trip > anytime due to any one of the following reasons: > > a. Lack of proper equipment > > b. Improper actions during the trip > > c. Violations pertaining to resource concerns > > The following caves are the ones open for recreational caving: > > 1. Black Cave > 2. Cottonwood Cave > 3. Hidden Cave > 4. Red lake Cave > 5. Sentinel Cave > 6. Sitting Bull Falls Cave > 7. Ain’t Dean’s Cave* > 8. Hell Below Cave* > 9. Pink Panther Cave* > > The High Guads Restoration Projects will continue as planned by HGRP > coordinator. > > * Requires Trip Leader > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_3 > _______________________________________________ > NMCAVER mailing list > [email protected] > http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/nmcaver_caver.net >
