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Haynes Cavemanaged by West Virginia Cave "Preserving the cave and karst resources ofWestVirginia for future generations" Number 3 Spring, 2000 The West Virginia Cave Conservancy isa non-profit, 501 (c)3 organization. All contributions totheConservancy aretax-deductible. Please sendall contributions anddues to: West Virginia Cave Conservancy, Inc., P.O. Box 243, Frankford, WV, 24938. Formore information on membership, visit ourwebsite at: http://www.wvcc.net. Please send all contributions to the newsletter to the newsletter editor. Any internal organization oftheN.S.S. haspermission toreprint materials in this newsletter with proper recognition given tothe author and The West Virginia Cave Conservancy Newsietter. President Secretary/Treasurer Newsletter Editor Ed Swepston Lois Lindsay Jeff Bray Rt. 2, Box384 Rt.1,Box11 401 Fairfax Rd.SEApt.322 Ronceverte, WV 24970 Frankford, WV 24938 Blacksburg, VA 24060 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Board of Directors Jeff Bray SandyCowan Robeti H.Handiey 401 Fairfax Rd.SE Apt. 322 HC68, Box117 647VorpeRd. Blacksburg, VA 24060 Friars Hill, WV24934 St. Albans, WV25177 [email protected] omaOOOl [email protected] [email protected] Tim Brown J.C. Fisher Bill Jones 57055 Marietta Rd. PO Box 276 PO Box 490 Byesville, OH 43723 Berkeley Spring, WV 25411 Charles Town,WV 25414 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lonnie Bums RayGarton Cliff Lindsay Rt. 3, Box10 A PO Box 200 Rt.1,Box11 Frankford, WV 24938 Barrackville.WV 26559 Frankford, WV24938 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dave Cowan Tina Hall EdSwepston HC 68, Box 117 160 GuySt. Rt. 2, Box 384 Friars Hill, WV 24934 Elkins.WV 26241-3927 Ronceverte, WV 24970 omaOOOl [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 777/s issue'scover is a photo ofFred Grady inside Hayne's Cave in Monroe County, West Virginia. Thanks To Our Newest Members!!! The West Virginia Cave Conservancy would like to thank all those who have recently joined or up-graded their membership status! Your help is important, and we hopeto continue to receive your help in the future. A special thank you goes out to our newest benefactor members, The Bassett Foundation, and Jim Gildea!! Terri Brown Patricia Seiser Harry Fair Frederick W. Scott Mary Sue Socky Richard K. Tucker Lisa Van Dyke Steve Southerly Joanne M. Smith Tom Tucker John E. Pearson John C. Taylor Keith Greenbalgh Steven L. Wood Gordon Lee Birkhimer Douglas Moore, II Bruce A. Snyder Pete Johnson Grottos Central New Jersey Grotto Commander Cody Caving Club South Carolina Interstate Grotto Philadelphia Grotto Monongahela Grotto Haynes Cave Managed by West Virginia Cave Conservancy JeffBray Haynes Cave is located in is easy to blockthe neighbors' gates. Monroe County and is owned by Fred We plan to improve the road down to Grady. Fred had approached the West where it is adjacent to the property Virginia Cave Conservancy about containing Haynes, and making a managing the cave. On January 16, parking area there instead. This will 2000, the WVCC adopted a help minimize problems that could occur management plan for the cave in ifa landowner's gate is blocked while a accordance with Fred's wishes for the group is in the cave. The new pa/king property. area will take a while to get used to, but For many that have visited the in the long run, will benefit everyone and cave over the years, there will be a few erase possible problems with the gates. noticeable differences. One thing will A trail will also be made from the remain the same though-the cave will parking area to the cave so that access be open for people to visit. There are will be easier. some activities planned for the property Haynes Cave is also visited by a though. Parking has always been a number of non-NSS or non-affiliated problem at the cave. Usually people will cavers and spelunkers. We plan to park at the end of Moore Road, where it construct a informational kiosk that will provide information oh the NSS and the A committee was formed to visit WVCC, as well as contact numbers for the cave regularly to be sure the more information. It will also have property is kept clean, and the register information concerning parking is up to date, and the kiosk is stocked announcements and anything else that and clean. This committee consists of is pertinent to folks visiting the cave. Bob Liebman, Ed and Mary Ann This trend has been started by many Saugstad, and Ed Swepston. Jeff Bray conservancies in other areas, and was selected as the liaison between the seems to work pretty well. It also has committee and the WVCC board. worked well in educating people that are Keep your eyes and ears open not as sensitive to cave environments, for project weekends at the property that but are stillvisiting caves on a regular will be announced soon to work on the basis. road, trail, and parking area. Umberger Sink Cleanup CliffLindsay During the summer of 1999, to remove the material, and eliminate a WVCC Trash-master Dave Cowan and source of leachates entering the ground his helpers were once again busy water into McClung's Cave. The Nature cleaning up another old dump in caving Conservancy, with a grant from the country. This time, the target of their United States Fish and Wildlife, was efforts was a dump in a sinkhole overtop happy to pay for the cost of hauling and of the south-west part of McClung's dumping the trash in the Greenbrier Cave, on land now owned by the County landfill, as well as paying WVCC Umbergers. The Umbergers had an administrative fee. A total of purchased the farm with the old dump, approximately 60 tons of material was and were happy to have someone clean removed from the sinkhole. up the dump for them. We were happy WVCC Work Day at Haynes Cave Jeff Bray Sunday, April 9 was the first looking for the best path in which to cut workday at the Haynes Cave Property. the trail. After just a little time, it was A number offolks showed up to help decided to start the path at the old create a new trail to the cave entrance. driveway (which is the clearing on the Itwas a great surprise to see that the right side of the road, still in sight of the state had decided to improve the cars when parked just past the gates at conditions of the public road that leads the end of the gravel part of Moore down to the property. The group walked Road). Many weeds and bushes were down the now-cleared road and hiked cleared to make what now is a rather through the bushes on the hillside large trail going through the woods and b'jshes to the cave entrance. There is area, and an informational kiosk will be no longer a need to climb a single placed near the cave entrance to inform fence, or deal with any greenbriers. visitors to the cave of the NSS and We also decided that we were WVCC ifthey are not already aware, going to movethe parking area for the and it will give any other information cave a little further down the road. This necessary at the time. spot will eventually be marked, but since We would like to thank all those the state had cleared the road, it is easy that did come out to help at Haynes to now park away from the gates where Cave, and also for those that helped at no traffic will be bothered by the parked the Lipps Entrance to Organ Cave for cars. Then cavers can just walk down the fence-building project that is being the road a couple tenths of a mile and conducted. Please keep your ears open walk up the grassy clearing to the trail for more announcements of workdays!! head, marked with flagging tape. Plans are being made to mark the parking Rapps Cave Update Bob Handley Archeplogists have been will be accepted on a first come - first selected for our project. They are Drs. served basis. A brief seminar will be Kim and Stephen McBride from the offered after this initial project is University of Kentucky. She is originally completed to provide WVCC a review of from White Sulphur Springs and he from the findings and future prospects. A Lewisburg. They have engaged complete reportwill be made after all archeological cave specialistsfrom both the initial work is finished. UK and the University ofTennessee. Although funding has been These folks are highly respected in their secured from the Cave Conservancy of field and ifthe initial Rapps project the Virginia's (CCV), additional matching proves the site to be significant, their grants are being soughtto lighten the presence will give the project high load on CCV. More on this later. visibility making fund raising much A security fence has been simpler and the future projects much installed by Tim Brown, Mike Phelps, easier to set up. Charlie Maus, Lonnie and Levy Burns, The initial effort will be Cliff and Lois Lindsay, and Bob Handley reconnaissance, mapping and some around the Rapps entrance to specific digs in the spring of 2000. discourage looters. A few volunteers will be needed Some of the artifacts that have and WVCC members will be first on the been found and are very hard to list. A notice will be sent out giving as distinguish from rocks and otherdebris. much lead time as possible. Volunteers We want to discourage any traffic in the cave until the archeologists have been the time being.
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