texascavers Digest 26 Sep 2009 23:24:11 -0000 Issue 859
Topics (messages 12155 through 12162):
Possible Threat to Cave Divers?
12155 by: Pete Lindsley
Hey cavers! Live in the las Vegas sewers!
12156 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
Re: Hey cavers! Live in the las Vegas sewers! CAVE RELATED.
12157 by: Fritz Holt
Conservation Efforts 2009
12158 by: Linda Palit
cave archaelology related
12159 by: David
New Mammoth Cave documentary :
12160 by: JerryAtkin.aol.com
Latest WNS Action Plan
12161 by: Mark Minton
Re: Frequent visitors to Mexico...
12162 by: Mixon Bill
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As I read this most interesting news item on Burmese pythons (ex pets
released to the wild) in Florida's Everglades National Park I
couldn't help but wonder if this could be a future threat (alligators
OR pythons) to cave divers in Florida. Looks like the makings of a
script for yet another movie on giant varmints coming to get you...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html
- Pete
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I am not making this up..
T.
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How do I get on a waiting list for these luxo accommodations? What an exciting
lifestyle in this glamorous location and the price is right. Admittedly, I
might have a little trouble sleeping IN an approved flotation device. One nice
feature is that once in a while the unit is cleaned courtesy of mother nature.
Then you get to shop (dive) for new (different) home furnishings. Of course, I
would hate to give up my current accommodations as I would no longer be able to
look up from my nightly repose and view the cute little flying mammals drop
from their resting places among the concrete crevices. Color me gone. Viva Las
Vegas!
Fritz
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Texascavers] Hey cavers! Live in the las Vegas sewers!
I am not making this up..
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2651937/The-people-living-in-drains-below-Las-Vegas.html
T.
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Evening, All,
NSS is collecting information on conservation efforts in the different areas
of the country. I agreed to collect for Texas for this year. So I need
your help. If your grotto or some group you are part of have done
conservation work this year, please send me a short summary. And if there
is someone who does not read CaveTex but you know they are involved in some
work, please put me in contact with them.
Many thanks,
Linda
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Is this a new news story ?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/oldest-lunar-calendar/15204
This web-site has several articles about caves:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-deepest-caves-in-the-world/1185
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/crystal-cave-giants/2706
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/waterfall-caves-caverns/13402
David Locklear
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Mammoth Cave National Park Follows Ken Burns' Documentary With Its Own
Film
Posted September 23rd, 2009 by _Kurt Repanshek_
(http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/users/repanshek)
Hoping to leverage the buzz over Ken Burns' 12-hour documentary on national
parks, a public television station in Kentucky is preparing to release its
own documentary, one focused entirely on _Mammoth Cave National Park_
(http://www.nps.gov/maca) .
Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder is an hour-long, high-definition program
that premiers on WKYU-PBS, Channel 24 in Kentucky on October 4, a week after
The National Parks: America's Best Idea, gains national exposure on public
television stations.
“The staff at WKYU-PBS presented the park with a rare opportunity and we
jumped at it,” says Superintendent Patrick Reed. “The program reveals the
story of the cave, and reminds us of why this place was set aside as a
national park. We are very grateful to the Friends of Mammoth Cave National
Park,
Bluegrass Cellular, and the Kentucky Department of Tourism, all of whom
provided funding for the project.”
The idea arose from conversations between the station’s Emmy Award
winning-producer Cheryl Beckley and the park’s information officer, Vickie
Carson,
back in August 2008.
“Several things came together that led us to doing this documentary,” said
Ms. Beckley, “like the convergence of the Ken Burns series on the National
Park Service, the new 6-mile lighting system in Mammoth Cave, the 20th
anniversary of WKYU-PBS, and the advent of HD technology. It was the right
time for a project like this to happen.”
Adds Ms. Carson: “There is always a need to find a better way to explain
the cave and share its beauty. Even though the cave is the major feature of
the park, it’s hidden and dark and mysterious. The cave is a delicate,
foreign environment – connected to the surface world, but very different from
it. Our task is to both protect and explain it.”
Ms. Beckley developed and directed the program, which contains four
segments: history and prehistory; science and research; the park’s power to
inspire, and; compelling human stories of the cave and parkland. Each segment
features interviews that together convey a holistic picture of the park.
On screen, the park is revealed through the discerning eye of Emmy
Award-winner David Brinkley, WKYU-PBS' director of photography for the
project.
“Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder is our first major undertaking in
high-definition, and it has pushed us to the limit in terms of our methods and
our
physical and mental state of being,” said Mr. Brinkley. “We rappelled into
the cave on ropes, lugged heavy equipment for miles underground, tromped
through the deep woods, and suffered through heat, cold, rain and ticks.”
During the course of a year crews returned again and again to the cave to
film eyeless fish, delicate gypsum crystals, cave tours, kayakers, sunsets,
spring wildflowers, fall color, endangered bats, and waterfalls both above
and below ground – in all more than 60 hours of footage and interviews.
“Every day we shot was better than what we imagined it would be," said Ms.
Beckley. "The people we interviewed related their unique connections to
Mammoth Cave and brought it to life.”
Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder will air on WKYU-PBS Channel 24 on October 4
at 8:00 p.m., and then again at 9:00 p.m.
“The National Park Service byline, ‘Experience Your America,’ encourages
people to get into parks and personally discover the American story,” noted
Superintendent Reed. “Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder takes the cave to the
public. Whether it’s a favorite passage along the Historic Tour, or a
remote cave stream only accessible by rope, Mammoth Cave: A Way to Wonder
reveals Mammoth Cave’s untold stories via high definition footage and personal
stories. It is an irresistible invitation to an unforgettable place.”
Portions of the film will be used in the park's visitor center, while the
_Friends of Mammoth Cave_
(http://www.friendsofmammothcave.org/projects/supporting_natural_resource.htm)
will be selling DVDs of the entire production.
_http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/mammoth-cave-national-park-fol
lows-ken-burns-documentary-its-own-film4581_
(http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/09/mammoth-cave-national-park-follows-ken-burns-documentary-its-
own-film4581)
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USFWS has just released a draft of their national action
plan against WNS. It is based on a conference held in Austin, Texas
Sept. 13-16. The pdf may be downloaded from
<http://www.fws.gov/northeast/white_nose.html>.
Mark Minton
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Forwarded by Mixon:
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From: Julie <[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: September 26, 2009 12:59:52 PM CDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Frequent visitors to Mexico...
Dear Editor,
I am the conservation chair of the VPI cave club of Blacksburg, VA. I
am also organizing the annual winter break trip our club takes to
Mexico. Our group mainly visits the states of Tamaulipas, and San
Louis Potosi. I was wondering if there are any conservation projects
concerning caves that I may build into my planning?
Thank you,
Julie Booker
VPI Cave Club Conservation Chair.
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