Missouri Speleological Survey
Files Report for August 2003
Light shows the way…
A huge packet of cave files goodies arrived on the doorstep courtesy of Joe Light of MVG. Joe has put a bunch of effort into gathering and refining data, mostly in St. Louis County but elsewhere as well. What Joe did is very complete – virtually a model for others to follow. He not only included a cd with raw photos of these sites but also had a digital Adobe Acrobat version of his report as well as a printed version. The text information will go into the database, the photos and other graphics into the graphics repository (Joel Laws and Tom Clifton) and the printed versions will go into the hard-copy files in Rolla. Outstanding work! Here is a list of the caves that Joe provided material on:
River Bluff Cave SLO
Tavern Rock Cave FRA
Roadway Cave SLO (new, but covered by construction)
Birch Hollow Cave SLO (needs to be excavated)
Bee Tree Cavern SLO
Joe also sent along photos from various caves in Franklin, St. Louis and Crawford Counties as well as Cherokee Cave in St. Louis City.
Plus Joe sent clippings on Cliff Cave and a sinkhole in Clearwater Lake.
I probably left something out here but what a fine contribution.
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James Corsentino sent a nice report on a closed cave in Dade County (yes, he had permission).
Lots of people contributed snippets of information via MoCaves: Tom Clifton, Leonard Butts, Robert Kramer, Jo Schaper, and Michael Carter to name but a few… I paste these morsels into the digital stew as best I can.
A pile of trip reports from Kenny Sherrill (who sent them a long time ago) was finally incorporated into the dataset (sorry for the delay).
Marty Griffin had sent me some location corrections which finally got incorporated.
Mick Sutton and crew straightened out the Peter Cave problem in Iron County. Mick sent three nice reports on: the real Peter Cave, Peter Cave #2, and the new Peter Cave #3.
Jeff “Spike” Crews forwarded cave leads in Christian County which he got from a resident of Springfield. Looks like three new caves for the record, IF someone goes out and verifies them. The location is descriptive (no coordinate info) so it’s not possible to add them to the files yet, even though one at least appears to be of good size.
Quad of the month: The Seligman Quad of Barry County has only three caves located on it – and one of those is marked on the map (sadly, we don’t even have a good description of the marked cave). The hundreds of feet of carbonate relief are bound to have some caves in them; look just around the shale benches and see what you can find. Or just drive down some back roads after leaf fall and you are bound to see some unreported caves.
Scott House
1606 Luce St.
Cape Girardeau MO 63701
573-651-3782