texascavers Digest 13 May 2009 02:19:28 -0000 Issue 757
Topics (messages 10677 through 10683):
TSA Spring Meeting Minutes
10677 by: Denise P
PBSS May Meeting
10678 by: J. LaRue Thomas
TSS work session
10679 by: Ron Ralph
Canyons & Caves No. 39, Spring 2009 is now available
10680 by: Dale_Pate.nps.gov
TSA Members Area Update - More TC's Are Now Online!
10681 by: Mark.Alman.l-3com.com
10683 by: JerryAtkin.aol.com
Pond Party & Sunday Swims
10682 by: Peter Strickland
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Enjoy!
http://cavetexas.org/TSA/meetingminutes.html
Cheers,
Denise
TSA Secretary
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Greetings, All!
The May meeting (our 304th, if anyone's counting) of the Permian Basin
Speleological Society is upon us!
The regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the PBSS will be on Tuesday
(tomorrow) May 12th at 7:00 pm in the back room of Murray's Delicatessen
which is located at 3211 West Wadley in Midland.
We will be shown a short program about White Nose Syndrome and discuss our
response to the same. We will also be discussing upcoming trips including
the May trip to Ess Cave, publication (or not) of the Hole News, and
anything else caving-related we care to get into.
For further information contact an officer: Jacqui Thomas
[email protected], Sharon Long [email protected], or Bill
Bentley [email protected] .
The PBSS web page: http://www.caver.net/pbss/pbss.html
The Permian Basin Speleological Society was founded in October 1983 and was
chartered as the 300th grotto of the National Speleological Society on
January 18, 1984. The Permian Basin Speleological Society is affiliated with
the Texas Speleological Society and the Southwest Region of the National
Speleological Society and supports the cave conservation ethics of the
National Speleological Society.
National Speleological Society web page:
http://www.caves.org/
Texas Speleological Association web page:
http://www.cavetexas.org
Southwestern Region of the NSS web page:
http://www.caves.org/region/swr/
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Cavers,
There is a scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas
Speleological Survey May 13th, this Wednesday, at the JJ Pickle Research
Center on Burnet Road north of highway 183. We will again work on the
PowerPoint presentation for ICS on preparing hardware for ICS registration.
We will update the paper files for the new Friendship Project at Amistad
Reservoir along with processing other county files. Come by and see if you
would like to organize one of our cave rich counties. And both publication
sales and the library will be open for business. If you attend, you will be
able to work on your own projects as well. The door will be open at 5:00
p.m. and stay open till we adjourn.
The TSS office phone is 475-8802 if you get lost or stopped by the guard.
Remember it is best to arrive before 6:00 pm, or the gate guards might not
let you in! If you have questions or problems, please contact me at
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] or call my cell phone
(512.797.3817) or go to
<http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sites/tss/tsscalendar.htm>
http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sites/tss/tsscalendar.htm for additional
information.
Ron Ralph
Cell: 797-3817
Map to the place is at: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/prc/ On PRC map 2 ("NW
Area"), 18-A is the little building just above the "ra" in "Granberry". Park
to the south in the PETEX lot across the street (Read Granberry Trail) from
building 18-A
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The latest issue of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park's newsletter from
the Resources Stewardship & Science Division, Canyons & Caves No. 39 is now
available on the park's website. This issue, and all the past issues, can
be found at:
http://www.nps.gov/cave/planyourvisit/brochures.htm#CP_JUMP_145034
Once there click on Issue 39.
The Table of Contents for the issue is listed below.
Dale
Table of Contents
Resource News
Replacing Pavement With Plants (M. Gosejohan)
Lepidotera Publications (R. West)
Underground Lunchroom Takeover (T. Bemis)
History: Caverns Historic District Buildings (D. Kayser)
Do Microbes Eat Plastic? (P. Burger)
Myth Busters – Bats Use Unknown Passages (D. Pate)
High-Angle & Cave Rescue Training 2009 (T. Bemis)
Bat Population Fluctuations (R. West)
Climbing Capitol Dome in Lechuguilla (S. Allison)
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Dale L. Pate
Acting Cave & Karst Program Coordinator
Geologic Resources Division - NPS
Supervisory Physical Scientist
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
575-785-3107
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All,
I'm pleased to announce that Carl Kunath has been gracious enough to submit
three back issues of the TEXAS CAVER from 2001, 2002, and 2004 and Butch Fralia
has dutifully posted them to the Members Area of the TSA Website for your
reading pleasure.
There's some great reading from the past in these issues. Stories such as the
purchase of the Deep and Punkin Cave property, a daring rescue of an injured
caver in Mexico, CARTOONS!, and a lot of past history and articles from present
day cavers and from some who, unfortunately, aren't with us any longer.
Hours of great reading have been added and I would like to thank Carl for
submitting them and Butch for posting them for posterity.
Not to mention, the 2nd quarter 2009 issue of the TEXAS CAVER will be posted
very soon, maybe, by this weekend!
This is looking to be a huge issue (36 pages), chock full of LOTS of photos and
just in time for ICS!
If you're a TSA member, but haven't yet joined the Digital Revolution, it is
extremely painless to do so. Go to http://www.cavetexas.org/members/ and sign
up and enjoy the back issues!
Please remember to select how you want your TC: mail or digital.
You can still opt to receive the TC in the mail, or you can do your part to be
environmentally and fiscally responsible, while sticking it to the USPS and
their recently adopted rate increase by opting to go digital!
The Members Area continues to expand very well and we currently have grown to
well over 80 members. This is over 40% of the total membership.
Not a TSA member? No problem! We still would like for you to contemplate
becoming a TSA member. Send me an email for your complimentary TEXAS CAVER and
see what you've been missing.
Or, you can visit the TSA website at www.cavetexas.org and become a paid member
and/or become an online member of the TSA.
There now are a total of 14 back issues available for your reading pleasure!
Enjoy!
Mark Alman - TSA Chairman and TEXAS CAVER Editor
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I realize the TSA Chairman is trying to promote a reasonable agenda that
will reduce the cost of the TxCvr to the membership. But I believe that he
might want to stop short of insinuating that if a member does want to
receive a hardcopy TxCvr, that they are environmentally or fiscally
irresponsible. These things have a way of causing terminal foot-in-mouth
disease, which
can be much more damaging than the H1N1 virus.
Jerry Atkinson
In a message dated 5/12/2009 1:26:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
You can still opt to receive the TC in the mail, or you can do your part
to be environmentally and fiscally responsible, while sticking it to the
USPS and their recently adopted rate increase by opting to go digital!
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The Pond Party (our big event of the year), will be Saturday June
13th 2:00 pm-late night. Before that we will have three Sunday
Swims,(Smaller gatherings with no organized food), on Memorial Day
Monday May 25th, Sunday May 31st, & June 7th, all 2:00 - 6:00 PM or
so. Due to the International Congress I don't expect to have any
more, unless by chance it rains a bunch in August. You can check the
calendar at utgrotto.org For more info call Pete at (H)
512-258-8384 or (C) 512-897-9235
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