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This Page Blank This page blank The Cave Research Foundation was formed in 1957 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating research, management and interpretation of caves and karst resources, forming partnerships to study, protect and preserve cave resources and karst areas, and promoting the long-term conservation of caves and karst ecosystems. Cave Research Foundation 2006-2007 Annual Report Copyright © 2008 by the Cave Research Foundation. Editor and Layout: Diana R. Tomchick Publishers: Roger E. McClure, Paul J. Steward The text of this book is composed in Warnock Pro with the display set in Myriad Pro. Front cover design by Diana R. Tomchick. Kenneth Storey designed this original poster for the CRF 50th Anniversary celebration held at the Hamilton Valley facility in October 2007. Previous page: photo by Peter and Ann Basted of selenite needles in New Discovery section of Mammoth Cave, October 2007 Back cover lineplot and topographic map overlay by Aaron Addison and Bob Osburn. Aaron and Bob prepared this poster for the CRF 50th Anniversary celebration. Permission is granted to reproduce this material for scientific and educational use. For information contact R. Scott House 1606 Luce St. Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-5208 ISBN 978-0-939748-69-3 CAVE BOOKS 4700 Amberwood Drive Dayton, OH 45424-4602, U.S.A. www.cavebooks.com CAVE BOOKS is the publications affiliate of the Cave Research Foundation. l'i Cal'e Research Foundation 2006-2007 Annual Report CoNTENTS 2006 CRF Highlights X 2007 CRF Highlights Xl Celebrating 50 Years of the CRF Xll CRF 50th Anniversary Celebration XIV OPERATIONS AREA REPORTS Eastern Operations 2006 2 Hamilton Valley 2006 5 Lava Beds Operations 2006 8 Lava Beds Operations 2006 10 Ozarks Operations 2006 14 Sequoia-Kings Canyon Operations 2006 22 Southwest Region 2006 24 Eastern Operations 2007 28 Lava Beds Operations 2007 30 Sequoia-Kings Canyon Operations 2007 36 Ozarks Operations 2007 40 SURVEY, CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS Roppel Cave 2006-2007 so Cave Research Foundation 2006-2007 Annual Report vii Cartography and GIS Report 2006-2007 Mammoth Cave National Park 59 Lava Beds National Monument GPS Location and Monumenting 7 4 Lava Beds National Monument Cave Mapping 75 Lava Beds National Monument Cave Reconnaisance 77 Cartography of Caves in Redwood Canyon 78 Mojave Cave Survey 80 SCIENCE Geology of Mammoth Cave 84 Structural Geology of the Redwood Mountain Pendant, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks 91 Lava Beds National Monument Ice Level Monitoring Project 95 RESTORATION AND EDUCATION The Making of uA Virtual Tour of Valentine Cave" 100 Lilburn Restoration Project 2007 104 CAVE BooKs Cave Books 2006 - 2007 108 CRF Library and Archive 111 I ' ll/ Cai'C Rcscnrcii Foll11datio11 2006- 2007 Annual Report OPERATIONS AREAS AND MANAGERS Eastern Operations Area Sequoia/ Kings Canyon & ()zarks Operations Area Dave West Mineral King Operations Area A1 ick Sutton i'Vlammoth Cave National Park john Tinsley /\•lark Twain National Forest Cumberland Gap National Historical Sequoia/ Kings Canyon National Park Ozark National Scenic Riverways Park Missouri Department of Ctmservation Southwest Operations Area i\ lissomi State Parks Lava Beds Operations Area Barbe Barker Bulhtlo National Scenic Ri,·er Bruce Rogers and Pat Helton Carlsbad Cavems National Park Lava Beds National Monument Lincoln National Forest 2006 DIRECTORS Chris Groves Pat Seiser George Crothers President Secretary Joel Despain Richard Maxey Roger Smith Patricia Kambesis Mid. Sutton Treasurer Hamilton Valley Director Bern Szukalski Diana 'l(Hnchick 2007 DIRECTORS R. Scott House Bern Szukalski George Crothers President Secreta!)' Charles Fox Joyce Hoffmaster Joel Despain Patricia Kambesis Patricia Seiser Vice President Hamilton Valley Director Diana 'l(unchick Robert Hoke Treasurer PERSONNEL George Crothers, Ph.D. \VIlliam Payne Fellowships & Grants Ne1vsleller E.'dilor Phil DiBlasi Ralph Earlandson National Personnel ( Hfice Ne1vsleller Layout & Photos Cave Research Foundation 2006-2007 Annual Report lX 2006 CRF HIGHLIGHTS The year 2006 was a busy one for the anniversary of the CRF, and preparatons had Cave Research Foundation. The CRF Annual already begun for the gala event to be held at Meeting was held October 6-8th at the new the Hamilton Va lley facility in Kentucky. Research faci lity at Lava Beds National The achievements of the CRF would Monument. Chris Groves stepped down as not be possible without the efforts of the CRF President, and Scott House stepped multitude of volunteers that comprise the up to fi ll the position. The new position of organization. The reports in this volume Vice President was created in order to foc us outline many of the major projects, and on public relations and management. Joel illustrate well the goals and ideals of the Cave Despain has been tapped to fill this new role. Research Foundation. It was duly noted that 2007 would be the 50th 2006 FELLOWS 2006 CERTIFICATES OF Aaron Addison MERIT Frank J. Everitt Frank J. Everitt Kevin Glover Ed Knetsch Tim Kohtz Georganne Payne John DeLong William Payne Cheryl Pratt 2006 CRF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Katie Schneider Megan Curry $2,500 Ph.D. Fe llowshi p $1,300 Grant Department of Biology, University of Department of Earth and Environmental Maryland Studies, New Mexico Institute of Mining n1e Stoichiometry of Cave Invertebrates: and Technology Adnptation to a Lirniting Environrnent. A Geomicrobiological and Geochemical Approach to the Biogenicity ofMoonmilk Matthew Medeiros Formation: Spider Cave and Pahoehoe $2,000 G rant Cave, New M exico; niUrsday Morning Cave, Department of Integrative Biology, Colorado; TI-Irush Cave, A laska. University of Califo rnia-Berkeley Evolution ofca1'e-li1 1 ing in Hawaiian Jennifer Lippmann Schmnkin (Le pidoptera : Noctuidae) with $1,300 Grant description of"n re111nrknble new cave species. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University Reworked Loess and Red Clays in Missouri Caves. X Cm'e Research Fou11dation 2oo6-2007 Annual Report 2007 CRF HIGHLIGHTS Fifty years ago in 1957 the Cave Research Tl JC \\Iindy Citv Speleone1vs, The Nnlion{{/ foundation was otliciall )' launched as a SjJe!eo!ogiwl Socictr News a nd the Crn ·c truly unique orga ni1.ation. The C RF Annual Rese{{ rc/J Foundation Qu{{r/erlr Newslel/er, Meeting was held on O c tober l9-2lst in arc reproduced here on the fo ll owing pages conjunction with the 50th i'\ nniversar}' \V hik it was wonderful to review the Celebration at the Hamilto n Va ll ey Resea rch achievem e nts of the C R l: over the last 50 years, facility near Mammoth Cave 0Jational it was also clear that th e CRF is still a very Park. Over 150 people attended the event active and d ynamic organi1.a tion. \\'c look and were treated to various tours, both forward to the next SO years of cave rese<trch, in -cave and on the surface. It was a g reat explo ratio n, managem ent and restoration. opportunit}' to meet old friends and make Read on for more detailed descriptions of new o nes, and was truly a n event not to be CRF projects a11d ac: hicve lll c nts. missed. Two reports, originall y published in 2007 FELLOWS Jeffrey "Spike" C rews Andv h ee Fd Khwsner t-: dwin Knetsch Tracev Knetsch Dan L11nping Jimmie D. \\'orrdl 2007 CRF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Matthew L. ;\Jiemiller Matthew Medeiros S:3, 000 Ph.D. Fell owship S-3,000 Ph.D. Fe ll owship Depart111cnt of Ecology and Evolutionary Department uf Cicology, Univer~ it y ol Biology, Un iversity of Tennessee, Knoxville C dif(mJia, Davis Linking Hahital Dislllrhrtncc to Sicrm Ne!'(/d(l .Sj;e/eoli!CJ/Is.· Potc11li{{/ rrs J-!yiJ ridizntion bdlvecn Swfrice (/1/d Crl! 1e­ 1 li,~!J-Resollllion Archii•cs o/AIIIJO.\jJI!cric Ad(lplerl Sa/{{lnruzdcrs. Circulntion m •c r \\-'cslcr11 No rtlr Alll criur. Cave Research Fou11datio11 2006-2007 Amuwl Report XI CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE CRF Ralph Earlandson Over 150 people converged on the Cave days driving from Chicago, I booked a Research Foundation Center at Hamilton cheap flight to Nashville and rented a car, Vall ey for the CRF 50th Anniversary leaving only a 90-minute drive to Hamilton Celebration. The main event ran Friday Valley. As the bunk houses and camping to Sunday, but there were caving trips to space at HV had already filled by the time I the Mammoth Cave system beginning registered, I took advantage of a special CRF on Wednesday. Trips included the New rate at the Park Mammoth Hotel in Park Discovery, the Flint Ridge to Mammoth City. connection, and Rappel. The goal of the I got to HV in time to go to Caverna connection trip was to re-enact the original Elementary School in Cave City for the 1972 Flint-Mammoth connection, but the exhibition of the 50-by-60-foot master map Tight Spot proved too much for several of the Mammoth Cave system, showing people, and the nearby second connection all known passages of the 370-mile-long route was done instead. system, the world's longest. It was all laid I arrived at Hamilton Valley on Friday out on the gym floor, and everyone was Gro11p on Tom Po11lson's biology trip to aft ernoon. A new sign, o nl y a month old and required to remove their shoes before Great Onyx. reading CAVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION stepping out on the map. It was quite a scene, with cavers milling about on the cave map. This map was first displayed, in the same manner, at this year's NSS Convention in Indiana. Friday evening was a time for socializing, and there was plenty of food. In addition to many people I've known from CRF expeditions over the years, I saw several I hadn't seen in 30 years or more.
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