[Texascavers] (OT) - Texas Beyond History : Cabeza de Vaca :

2007-08-25 Thread JerryAtkin
The latest installment on the Texas Beyond History website is a fascinating series dedicated to the travels of Cabeza de Vaca and the people he met during his famous trek across South Texas and Northern Mexico in 1528 - 1535. _http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-cooking/index.html_ (ht

RE: [Texascavers] really in-expensive digital camera

2007-08-25 Thread Louise Power
On the site it lists the price as $31.99. From:  "David Locklear" To:  texascavers@texascavers.comSubject:  [Texascavers] really in-expensive digital cameraDate:  Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:34:24 -0500MIME-Version:  1.0Received:  from raistlin.wokka.org ([69.56.185.90]) by bay0-mc3-f6.bay0.hotmail.c

RE: [Texascavers] Dean

2007-08-25 Thread Louise Power
They were very lucky. I read in my local newspaper yesterday that Tecolutla and surrounding area got hit pretty hard. It devastated their fruit trees and fruit crops, corn and sugarcane. Local people were not as concerned about their houses, because many have been left without a way to make a livi

[Texascavers] really in-expensive digital camera

2007-08-25 Thread David Locklear
How much would you expect out of a new digital camera that retails for $ 22 plus tax? How about 2.1 megapixels, flash, 8 mb internal memory, color viewing screen, ability to preview photos, SD slot capable of 512 Mb of photos, USB cord included, and 3 AAA batteries included. tripod mount, photo-so

[Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast wetlands--now

2007-08-25 Thread gille
-- Original message -- From: cavera...@aol.com > Conversion of a suburb into a wetland was ecologically important, as well as > a good use of land now in the public domain. There have been quite a few > successful > wetland restoration projects such as in th

[Texascavers] Dean

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Mixon
Here's something from Mexico about Hurricane Dean: JIM CONRAD'S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER Issued from Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Jalpan, Quer�taro, M�XICO August 24, 2007 * HURRICANE DEAN On Internet "regional-radar animations" I'd watched Dean since it was a gathering of peaceful-lo

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast Faults (Caving long forgotten)

2007-08-25 Thread Louise Power
I found it interesting that in the reporting of Hurricane Dean, the coastal wetlands along the Gulf in Mexico were credited with dissipating the force of the storm. Something to remember when we go about developing our coastlands right down to the water's edge. Louise From: cavera...@aol.comTo: po

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast Faults (Caving long forgotten)

2007-08-25 Thread CaverArch
Conversion of a suburb into a wetland was ecologically important, as well as a good use of land now in the public domain. One of the most unfortunate things about subsidence is that hundreds or thousands of acres of Galveston Bay natural wetlands sunk to the point that they became too deep

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast Faults

2007-08-25 Thread Louise Power
A much better use to my way of thinking, having lived in Houston for 15 years. Louise From: cavera...@aol.comTo: gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org, Texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast FaultsDate: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:23:02 EDTMIME-Version: 1.0Received: from raistlin.w

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Gulf Coast Faults

2007-08-25 Thread CaverArch
In a message dated 8/24/2007 11:21:59 AM Central Daylight Time, gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org writes: While there isn't much that can be done about the general subsidence of the gulf on a geologic time line, they are very considered about over pumping and subsidence related to groundwater

[Texascavers] Fwd: Re: Cave in Bexar County on property

2007-08-25 Thread Linda Palit
Note: forwarded message attached.--- Begin Message --- Richard, I'll write the information below so it can be posted on TexasCavers.com. Linda, could you post it for me? The listserver won't accept messages from my PDA. An earlier posting said a house was for sale in San Antonio and has a cave