Ben
Miller sent GPS locations for nine new caves equally distributed between
Crawford, Stone, and TaneyCounties, plus three location improvements for caves
in RoaringRiverState Park, BarryCounty.
Ben also sent a revised (much better!) location for a USFS cave in BarryCounty.
Then he followed all this up with a pile of location improvements and
corrections for a messy area in BarryCounty where the old cave files had records for DropCave,
Drop Cave Shelter, DropCave and Shelter, and so
forth. If you’ve worked with an area like this, you know the routine.
Aaron
Addison sent a location for a cave he found some years (15) ago in PerryCounty.
And they made a map. By and by we are getting some loose ends cleaned up in the
big cave county.
Kris
Hartman sent a pile more reports, maps, locations, and photographs from PerryCounty
. Included in this was a new map of Salamander (Schindler) Cave. Kris also
turned in a new cave which he termed DirtyMouthCave.
It got the next number in the sequence, PRY 669. Honest.
Bill
Gee sent a nice hydrologic report on CarrollCave. Reports like this
get filed into the reports fields for posterity. Nice work.
Tony
Schmitt sent a nicely written report on a cave in ShannonCounty on PioneerForest
land.
Dan
Lamping turned in two new caves found by Tony Schmitt and Mike Freeman on PioneerForest
land (within Ozark Riverways) in ShannonCounty. This in an area
that keeps turning up new caves, if you can figure out where to look.
Roy
Gold sent in two new cave locations (courtesy of Charley Young) and two good
GPS locations for known caves, all in WrightCounty.
Randy
Long of MarkTwainNational Forest turned in a cave in IronCounty
and a location of a new sinkhole pit in HowellCounty
. Randy also sent information on known caves in Christian, Taney, Shannon and LacledeCounties . This information included new
GPS readings and photographs.
Al
Quamen turned in a new cave in PerryCounty . Al also brought
by a big pile of new GPS locations for about 15-20 known caves (lost track
there were so many). Also he had some GPS locations for known caves in the 76
area that never made it into the database, even though they were mapped some
years ago. These are great contributions to improving the data in PerryCounty.
Jon
Beard sent some new information on developments around BreakdownCave.
Like new developments on top of BreakdownCave. Sigh. One would
think recent sinkhole “developments” would help stem the tide of building over
known caves, but alas…
James
Corsentino sent a variety of emails detailing reports, mostly biological, on
caves in PulaskiCounty .
Dan
Lamping and I found three new caves on Ozark Riverways land. It sometimes
amazes me what is still out there to be found; two of these caves had
good-sized springs associated with them and one had a big walk-in entrance.
Nobody had ever looked for caves up these hollows. And the third had a walk-in
entrance facing the CurrentRiver. They are still out
there, folks!
I am
behind right now because of the revisions to the database format that I have
mentioned to many of you. Most of those initial revisions are now complete, the
new version is working fine; now I have to work on the refinements, all of
which takes time. So this report is noticeably incomplete as I struggle to get
new information caught up.