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The Texas Caver Volume 32, No THE TEXAS CAVER VOLUME 32, NO. 6 DECEMBER 1987 I CONTENTS I Kickapoo Summary (J. Ivy) ......... 131 Cot Cave map .................... 132 Kickapoo Biology (Elliott & Reddell) . 133 State Park Caves (P. Fambro) ........ 135 Beaver Creek Bat Cave (W. Elliott) . .. 137 The Texas Caver is a bi-monthly publication c · the & Map ........... .......... 138 Texas Speleological Association (TSA), an inf ;rn al First Timer's Old-Timers (D. Allen) ... 139 organization of the National Speleological Sc :ie cy Kamikaze Bob .......... .. .. ... 140 (NSS). It is published in February, April, une, News & Notes .................... 142 August, October, and December. TSS News (W. Elliott) ...... ....... 144 Subscription rate is $1 0/year for 6 issues of The ] ~xas Trip Reports .. ..... .............. 145 Caver. This includes a $4 fee for membership 1 the Long & Deep Caves (D. Pate) .... ... 149 TSA. Out of state subscribers, libraries, and 1ther instituions can receive The Texas Caver for $6 'ear. altematin~ editors Send all correspondence (other than material fo The Texas Caver), subscriptions, and exchanges to: The Texas Caver, P.O. Box 8026, Austin, Texas 78 ~ n this issue next issue Dale Pate Jay Jorden The Texas Caver openly invites all cavers to s· bmit P.O. Box 1251 1518 Devon Circle articles, trip reports, photographs (35 mm slide r r any Austin, Texas 78767 Dallas, Texas 75217 size black & white orcolorprinton glossy paper:_, cave ph. 512-452-5184 ph. 214-398-9272 maps, news events, cartoons, and/or any other tving wk. 214-220-2022 related material for publication. ©Copyright 1987 Texas Speleological Associr. tion AUSTIN STAFF SUPPORT Computer assistance and proof-reading THE Erika Heinen Texas Caver labels TEXAS CAVER Rod Goke Texas Caver distribution Johanna Reece Printed by Kestrel Printing, Austin, Texas Front Cover.--Sarah Gayle begins her descent in to Dlusive Pit , a 130 meter deep entrance drop located Cave Rescue -- Call Collect in Coahuila, Mexico. (Brian Burton) Back Cover.--A high lead above El Jonuco, Nuevo 512-686-0234 Leon, Mexico. (Peter Sprouse) 130 The Texas Caver December 1987 r KICKAPOO PROJECT SUMMARY BY Joe Ivy On October 17-18, well over 130 cavers from Cave and Green Cave were not surveyed since they all over Texas and beyond converged on what was are so large as to warrant a weekend unto themselves. previously the Sargeant Ranch about 20 miles north of All in all, the objectives of the project were acheived. Brackettville, Texas to participate in the TCMA/TSA The majority of the ridges on the ranch were walked Ki ckapoo Project for the Texas Parks & Wildlife with the notable discovery of six new caves. A worthy Department. Cavers began showing up as early as 5:00 achievement considering that the ranch has 6,400 pm Fri day and the bulkofthegrouphad arrived by4:00 acres. All of the known caves were photographed, am Saturday morning. At 9:00 am, ridgewalking collected, and located. All of the known caves were gro ups had begun to form and depart. By 11:00 am surveyed except Kickapoo and Green. A geologic survey crews had dispersed to survey the known caves. assessment of the area and many grandiose statements The main goals of the project were to locate , were made by George Veni. A group of New Mexico photograph, collect, and survey the known caves and cavers led by Jim Goodbar worked on washing the to ridgewalk in search of new caves. Kickapoo formations in Kickapoo Cave while another group used Keith Reuss' cave radio to located survey points Ron Ralph at the entrance to Kickapoo Cave (WR Elliott). on the surface above the cave for the future installation of a drip irrigation system. The system would theoretically stimulate renewed formation growth. Also Alicia Gale and Jocie Hooper led "Kiddie Kave Tours" to Cot Cave and Kickapoo Cave. And to finish out a busy, productive Saturday most of the group watched the bat flight out of Green Cave and visited Kickapoo Cave. Sunday saw mostcavers packing to head home -- a long drive for most-- while some cavers ran back to check leads in some of the new found caves. Also, one of the new caves was surveyed and all were accurately located. Many thanks to those cavers who traveled far and worked hard to cause the success of this TSA project. And special thanks to Kelly Bryant, Rune Burnett, and Ron Ralph of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, whose cooperation, help, and support we could not have done without. The Texas Caver December 1987 131 J-4 UJ N COT CAVE ~ ('\) Kinney County, Texas g~ ~..: PLAN ('\) r ""1 ENTRANCE 0 ('\) (j \)"'~ n;, ""1 ......... \Q Oo -....:) l~ ~- PROFILE TAPE & SUUNTOS SURVEY 17 October 1987 0 5 10 15 Erika Heinen Dale Pate - Nm:---.-- Mary Standifer Meters Drafted by: Dale Pate TSA KICKAPOO PROJECT BIOLOGY REPORT By William R. Elliott & James R. Reddell Texas Speleogical Survey The project at Kickapoo Cave State Park Site and reported to the biology team during the project. October 17-18,1987, wasagoodopportunitytoadd All collections are being processed at the Texas our knowledge of the cave fauna of the area. Memorial Museam and will be loaned out to Kickapoo and Green are famous caves, taxonomic specialists, who will identify them. tially nothing was known about their biology Conditions were generally dry in the caves, so the the project. Cave swallows had been reported collections may not have thoroughly represented the both caves, but the Mexican freetail bats in arthropods that live there. Few troglobites (blind, ree n Cave had not been identified until 1986. The cave-adapted forms) were found, so further work may • vc.,vuc- • project resulted in invertebrate collections be needed after a wet period. We have found that der a permit from TPWD) and observations of several trips to an area under different moisture brates in nine caves on the park site. This nearly conditions usually result in better data. Nevertheless, the number of caves in Kinney County that new records of some species were made. ever been studied biologically (Green Cave Honey bees were observed and photographed tually lies in Edwards County.) This report will in Bee Cave and Green Cave . The hi ve in Green ly outline our findings. Most of the collections is quite large. Most of the caves contained cave not been identified in detail as yet. crickets. Males were collected to see which of several Collections were made by the authors, species they might be (only Ceuthophilus cunicularis elino Reyes, Allan Cobb, George Veni, Joe Ivy, and C. apache have been found in Kinney County so Oczkowski, and Andy Grubbs in Bee Cave, far). Cave, Dead Porcupine Cave, Green Cave, Two types of darkling beetles were found in kapoo Cave, Porcupine Cave, Saddle most of the caves and may prove to be species of ve, Scorpion Cave, and Sumac Pit. Only a Eleodes or Embaphion. These are the large, black , very small caves remain to be studied. beetles commonly found in the entrance zone. ervations of animals were made by several cavers Reddish, ant-like beetles, probably Rhadine howdeni , \laejovis reddelli, a Texas scorpion found mostly in caves. were taken in Bee and Cot Caves. These are eyed (Wr Elliott) forms, which are larger and more robust than the .~ ... "" troglobitic Rhadine found in caves farther east. Rove (Staphylinid) beetles, a small red-orange carabid beetle, pillbugs, and desert roaches (Arenivaga) were also common members of the entrance zone fauna. The common Daddy-long-legs harvestman (Leiobunum townsendi) was in almost all of the caves, and many of them carried red chiggers on their legs. There seemed to be no troglobitic Hoplobunus harvestmen, found in some other caves in the county. A few ticks were found, and long-legged pholcid spiders were collected, but there was a lack of small , delicate, troglobitic spiders. Most everyone who went to Kickapoo Cave observed dark scorpions on the walls and floor. One was photographed by Elliott and videographed by The Texas Caver December 1987 133 report observations of such animals to the author1 whenever they can. The only troglobites found during the project were blind millipedes (Cambala speobi~ in Dead Porcupine Cave and some small, white trichoni scid isopods on a piece of wood at the very end of l Kickapoo Cave . The terminal room was noticeably damper than the rest of the cave. The fauna was not nearly as diverse and cave-adapted as those from othe1 Kinney County caves such as Palace Cave, Webb Cave, Brackettville Sink, and Rattlesnake Cav~ \ Long-eared bats (Plecotus townsendii) were observed in small numbers in Cot Cave and Sumac Pit, but were not caught. Rex Wahl has observed bat stains in small domes in Kickapoo Cave , and Ron Ralph reported seeing a small, old guano area near the entrance talus. Kickapoo has been inhabited by only small numbers of bats, but no one knows how recentl y. The entrance seems too small and vegetated for freetails, so cave myotis or long-eared seem more likely. Rex Wahl, assisted by Carol Beardmore, Bob Burnett, and others, has conducted bat surveys in ' Green Cave for the Texas Parks &Wild li fe Large passage in Kickapoo Cave (WR Elliott) Department and Bat Conservation International. Rex noted that Mexican freetails were present in Green on Butch Fralia' s crew, and several were taken there and his first visit in February 1986, and he has returned five in Scorpion Cave . These probably are Vaejovis times since then. The bat population flu ctuates reddelfi, an eyed, troglophilic species, which is found greatly, ranging from 200,000 on May 23, 1987, to in many Texas caves, but only rarely above ground. 4,500 on June 22.
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