Colorado Cave Survey meeting, January 22 2019
The next CCS Meeting is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. It will be at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, in the Marquez Building (Room … [Read more…]
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Groaning Cave visitation summary 2017-2018
Access to Groaning Cave, Colorado’s longest cave, is managed by the Colorado Cave Survey for the White river National Forest. A short summary has been prepared of caver visitation to … [Read more…]
Proposed quarry expansion in Glenwood Springs may impact caves
Rocky Mountain Resources has proposed a large expansion of the existing Midcontinent limestone quarry near Glenwood Springs. Many cavers are concerned about the potential impacts both on the popular, wonderfully … [Read more…]
New scientific reports on bats and WNS
Two recent scientific publications on bats and White Nose syndrome may be of interest to Colorado cavers. Both provide some evidence that caver visitation will probably not be a primary … [Read more…]
New MOU with White River National Forest
We have a new Memorandum of Understanding with the White River National Forest. See the MOU here.
White-Nose Closure Alert
Effective August 1, 2013 the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region will be implementing an adaptive management strategy for white-nose syndrome (WNS) on national forests and grasslands in Colorado, Wyoming, … [Read more…]
Oklahoma WNS, False Positive
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center recently announced that the identification of the Pd fungus on a bat in Oklahoma was in fact a false positive and the state is … [Read more…]