Missouri
Speleological Survey
Files
Report for October – December 2010
Very nice new maps of Rough Hollow Cavelet
and Lewis Ford Cave, both in the Ozark Riverways came
from Ed Klausner. Ed is a CRF board member from Iowa
who attended the October expedition.
Mike Tennant sent in some new or improved locations of
caves in the Riverways areas. He followed this up
with a new map of Fire Hydrant Stream Cave and a map of Cedargrove
Bluff Cave. Mike also sent the final draft map of a cave in St. Charles County.
Roy Gold sent in an improved location for a cave in Benton
County. He also noted a cluster of bats, which prompted his exit. Roy sent
information on a cave in Christian County. Roy followed this up with a tidy
package for a new cave in McDonald County. Including was a Topo
file, entrance photo, copies of a newspaper article, and a report by Jon Beard.
Also included was an improved location for a nearby known cave.
Paul Hauck sent photographs and locations for two new pits
in Perry County. Both have now been mapped.
Edmund Tucker sent a cave location, photos and a
description of a cave in Perry County thought to be new. Turned out (due to
location difficulties) to already be known and mapped, some years ago. Paul
Hauck sent along a draft map of the cave. This not-unusual-situation points out
the rationale for having multiple locational methods
for comparison. And nothing is better than a good set of written directions,
relative to some known point. So it was not a waste of time but rather an
opportunity; I sat down and worked over the information extensively. I ended up
removing two other cave records which turned out to be duplicates. And then
Paul Hauck, Richard Young, and I followed up with a field trip to the area. We
obtained GPS readings and photographs of all the known entrances on the
property and added a couple of new ones (to replace the removed ones, eh?)
Also, Richard loaned us his beautiful 140 slide (real
emulsion slides – remember) show on Crevice Cave. Patti and I have now
digitized all of these slides to add to the digital files.
Randy Long sent a biological report on Banker Cave. Randy
also sent a new GPS location for a cave in Shannon County and a status report
on another FS cave in Douglas County.
Kris Hartman sent a new length for Blackfathom
River Cave in Sainte Genevieve County; the cave has now been mapped to 6.48
miles. Kris also included line plots and topographic overlays of the cave.
New reports came from Jim Cooley on two USFS caves in Barry
County. Jim is monitoring FS caves as part of the CRF monitoring program. Jim
also turned in a report and location and entrance photo of a new cave on USFS
land in Oregon County plus full reports and entrance photographs of three new
caves on Ozark Riverways land. Jim also sent maps of
a new cave in Oregon County – one in color, one in black and white and one with
a biological layer on it. He followed this up with a report on a new FS cave in
Oregon County and two nice maps of caves in the Ozark Riverways
that he found and mapped during the October CRF expedition.
Chad McCain has been busily fixing cave locations in Perry
and Ste. Genevieve Counties. He unloaded about 15 emails worth of improved
locations, landowners’ names, directions, corrections, and google-earth
location maps. This also included several new caves in Ste Gen, ones I had missed
back around 1980 (I guess). Nice work Chad! Okay, time for Scott’s Soapbox:
lots of people ask how they can help improve the data sets. Here is yet another
example of how one individual goes out and does just that. No drama, no
whining, just good data produced with some good effort.
Eric Hertzler turned in a new
cave on national forest land in CHR. This was part of CRF-sponsored work by
SPG. And Eric sent in a pile of locations and other information on a number of
caves in Camden County that he and Gary Johnson found earlier in 2010. Eric
also sent a name correction from Christian County. Lastly, Eric followed up
with maps of three caves (including the new one above) plus very nice
descriptions of them, written by Eric, Charity, and Jon Beard. The descriptions
are so important to the MSS; wish that more people would do them. Good work
Eric, etal!
Mick Sutton sent a location and entrance description of a
new cave in Reynolds County. Mick also sent a pile of revisions, descriptions,
and biological reports for caves, mostly on Forest Service land.
Gary and Alberta Zumwalt sent new
GPS locations for two caves in Morgan County. Most of Morgan County needs this,
and the LOG folks are going after it…
Stan Sides had dropped off a pile of Perry County data a
few months ago. Wife Patti entered all the survey data from Ted Ballman Cave (2600ft) and Dorothy Taylor Cave (5600 ft)
into the WALLS program. With Stan’s help we were able to clear up a few
questions. Now a good data set exists for these two important caves, all part
of the headwaters area of the Moore Cave System. After getting this material
into a GIS system, we hope to get a new map going of Taylor. Stan also dropped
off various other journals and other data which we will be plugging into the
database as time allows.
Jon Beard sent a digital copy of his Garrison Cave #2 map.
This is the original Adobe Illustrator file, which will be kept with other
archived digital material. It is always a good idea to have backups of the
original native files, just in case someone wants to use them in the future.
Jon and Eric Hertzler sent various other corrections
and discussions on missing caves into the files.
And the end of the year brought another newsy email from
Jon with more mysteries from the annals of Greene County caves. This will take
some time to figure out...
Keep it coming, folks!
Scott
House
Missouri
Cave Database
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