Missouri Speleological Survey
Files
Report for March through June 2006
Wow,
have I been behind. Guess I’m in the same boat with everyone else. Still, lots
of new material has come in and been processes, some faster than others.
Roy
Gold sent a new location for a cave at Dickerson Park in Springfield. Roy also
sent several other revised, improved locations for caves in Christian and
nearby counties plus he and Bob Taylor have found a few new caves as well.
Dan
Lamping sent a map of Avon Cave SGE and has a large pile of other maps coming
in. Maps I lose track of, because I don’t archive them, DGLS does. So I don’t
always keep these straight. I do try but lapses occur in my memory. Dan also
sent in locations of three new caves in Shannon County.
Joe
Light sent a fat envelope of material on St. Louis area caves and springs.
Randy
Long of the US Forest Service sent nice reports on FS caves in Crawford, Madison,
and Dent Counties. Randy also sent pages of revised cave locations from his FS
work.
Dan
Drees of MDC sent a question on cave names in Carter County which, when
straightened out, resulted in a cave deletion, a result of a duplication.
Eric
Hertzler sent a bunch of reports on Lake of the Ozarks area caves. These are
nice reports, with good attention to detail and biological notes as well. Eric
also sent locations of new caves in Pulaski County, on the Ozark Springs quad,
and several new caves from Ha Ha Tonka State Park. Eric is now living in Taney County
and ready to start revising information in that area.
Kris
Hartman of SEMO Grotto sent a new cave location in Cape Girardeau County. Low
and wet, it blows a lot of air and goes. Kris also brought two fat cd’s full of
improved gps’ed cave locations and entrance photographs from Perry County.
Kris, Kris Klaus and help are checking over, bit by bit, old cave locations in
the Perryville area and finding, of course, plenty of errors mixed with a
variety of good locations.
Paul
Woods submitted a location for Walking Cave (that’s its name and description), McDonald
County, a while back and I finally got it entered. Paul also sent some
additional new locations for known caves. Paul also sent a location for a new
cave in McDonald County, the map of which he is finishing up.
Tom
Panian sent a location and information on a new cave(s) on Pioneer Forest land
in Shannon County. He also forwarded locations of caves found by Mickey York,
Val Schmidt, and others from MVG.
Ben
Miller sent in a new cave in Taney. Ben also sent locations for the Yocum Pool Caves
in Stone County plus a couple more discoveries that has now pushed the number
of caves in Stone County to 300, a definite milestone. Number 300 is a nice
deep cave in a not-very-remote area. And Ben sent a nice report on Avery Hollow
Cave, Crawford County.
Tony
Schmitt sent two locations of caves in St. Louis County, and Bob Criss of Washington
University sent yet another.
Alan
Leary of MODOT sent a location for Stowell School Cave in Marion County, the
new cave that recently made headlines. Now this is just the 17th
cave recorded in Marion County, a county that has three other caves over a mile
in length. I know there are many more there; some may be of substantial size.
This is definitely an area where you can pick up some “road” caves (new
entrances visible from the road). I remember some years ago, there was an MVOR
there; the host grotto found 5-10 new caves, and never got around to filing the
locations.
Marty Griffin
sent a new location for a known cave in Newton County. Here is another place
that needs a bunch of work. Numerous caves to map and lots of so-so locations
to fix.
Mike
Flannigan sent an account of his search for Breadtray Mountain Cave in Stone County,
which remains lost.
Michael
Carter sent nice reports on Welch Spring Cave and an extensive outing in Douglas
County that resulted in several new caves that I have not yet sifted through.
Michael also sent a location for a new cave in Webster County.
Steve Taylor
provided new location for one known cave in
Bill
Elliott sent a list of caves (66!) from the Cave Life Database that don’t match
up to MSS-known caves. I have been working through this list; some of the caves
simply have no locations while others are probably known caves. Then there are
those that represent new caves and have locations.
And a
cave got up and moved. Okay, I moved it. Well, its location is firmly in
The
usual apologies to those whose contributions I have failed to note.
Scott
House
Missouri
Cave Database
1606
Luce St.
Cape
Girardeau MO 63701
573-651-3782