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  Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:11:00 +0200
Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas....

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  Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:09:00 +0200
To ensure effective monitoring of caves and determine appropriate sustainable uses of all identified cave areas recently conducted a two day training on Cave Assessment and Conservation....

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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:08:00 +0200
The rigging is all done on this one. The entrance now has a single bolt on a rock just on the right to aid getting down into the entrance sink....

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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:07:00 +0200
On Saturday I met Will and Jessica in Chattanooga. We consolidated into one vehicle and headed north towards Spencer to meet John H, Wood and John L for a guided trip through Keystone River Cave. Will had just recently visited the cave in June, so we decided to take advantage of his memory while it...

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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:07:00 +0200
A respected cave expert has called on the government to address urgently the acidic mine water pollution in the Witwatersrand region....Disturbing news indeed. All too often outside human influences threaten caves, Karst, and other precious resources underground....

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  Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:34:00 +0200
An Australian researcher has found that glow worms switch their preycatching light on and off to a daily rhythm...

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  Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:43:00 +0200
Summer is almost over, but Im still on the roads, going around Romania, visiting places and taking pictures. So last week Ive been to the salt mine from Turda....

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  Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:16:00 +0200
A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday had with him an infrared video camera and a laptop computer .....

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  Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:15:00 +0200
CCMS used to have a hell of a great newsletter! Actually it would very beneficial for the Section to be differentiate from the Division .....

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  Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:14:00 +0200
About 20 years ago, two men exploring Picture Cave found paintings on the rock walls and sent hand-drawn reproductions to archaeologists....Yeah, but you've been to France, and I havent. This doesnt quite make us even-- youve still got the upper hand.

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  Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:03:00 +0200
Membership and ByLaws Change: At the 2008 Vertical Section meeting in Florida the Board elected to reduce the membership dues to zero.....

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  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:57:00 +0200
The Nature Conservancy and Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville have collaborated on the construction of three state-of-the-art cave gates at a cave system adjoining the Ijams property.....

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  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:24:00 +0200
Blanchard Springs Caverns will offer a special photo tour Sept. 6, Sept. 28 and Nov. 23.

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  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:22:00 +0200
Canadian researchers have found wind turbines can kill bats without them actually flying into the blades....

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  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:21:00 +0200
Bats are known, in part, for making an infernal racket that helps them navigate....

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  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:20:00 +0200
Britains leading Stone Age archaeologists wanted to start a hunt for 40,000-year-old Neanderthal flint hand axes at Kents Cavern...

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  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:13:00 +0200
1958 -- 50 years ago ....

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  Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:02:00 +0200
Read about it on the SCCi website...

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  Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:01:00 +0200
A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some underwater, have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula...

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  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:45:00 +0200
When Reid Robinson looks at a stream gushing from the mouth of an underground stream, he thinks about how clean and pure water is....

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  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:44:00 +0200
Last week, Robert Coomer won his 6th national award for cave photography.....

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  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:42:00 +0200
Youth exploring the Earth from the inside out could be the theme for the new caving club formed in the Honey Brook area....

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  Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:10:00 +0200
Last summer, I stepped out of my front door for my daily walk.....

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  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:48:00 +0200
Recently, the Nature Conservancy along with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of State Parks, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service purchased Indianas Cave River Valley which includes many caves.

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  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:53:00 +0200
Dips in the suns activity have triggered centuries long droughts in eastern North America, according to a new study that examined the geologic record stored within a stalagmite from a West Virginia cave....

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  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:53:00 +0200
They waited for a guided trip to Vogelherd Cave. It cannot be called a real cave, like one that allows you to descend deeply into the earth .....

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  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:14:00 +0200
Skeleton Cave near Bend closed to the public most of the year because of vandalism will be open to the public....

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  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:32:00 +0200
Of the hundreds of natural passageways leading into the underworlds of Tuolumne, Calaveras and Mariposa Counties, Bower Cave is by far one of the most unique and interesting caverns ....

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  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:31:00 +0200
USGS Speleologist J. Judson Wynne joins us via Iridium satellite phone as he prepares to enter another cave ...

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  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:18:00 +0200
Just a word of wisdom from this unwise one. My compurter picked up a virus called Anti virus 2009. It wont let you on the internet without them wanting you to pay $50 to buy there antivirus program. I some manual instructions on the internet to remove it, but .....

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  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:26:00 +0200
Its right on the edge of being a cautionary tale on overcomplicated government projects with too many federal, state and local cooks...

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  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:25:00 +0200
Jaclyn Olson, assistant naturalist at the Kane County Forest Preserve District, said the bats they hope to encounter on an outing Tuesday evening tend to keep to themselves.

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  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:24:00 +0200
In 1993, Nicola, an internationally known spelunker from Astoria, set out to explore the Gypsum Giant cave system of Western Ukraine, one of the worlds longest at 77 miles....

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  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:23:00 +0200
New York based photographer Raymond Klass became an artist in residence at Mammoth Cave National Park with the goal of capturing enough images for a book....

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  Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:08:00 +0200
Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.......

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