[NMCAVER] Heated Bat Houses for WNS

2009-03-05 Thread Minton, Mark
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[Texascavers] RE: heaters for bats

2009-03-05 Thread Minton, Mark
Bill Mixon said: If you heat up part of the cave, the bats will just move and hibernate in some cooler place. They have to hibernate in a suitably cool place in order to depress their metabolisms enough. As I understood that article, the plan is not to heat open areas of the cave

[Texascavers] Fwd: Male Student from Belgium interested in caving

2009-03-05 Thread Robert B
anybody interested in the forwarded email. would some considerate individual please pass this along to other caving organizations in US Rob -- Forwarded message -- From: Laura Romer List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:31 AM Subject: Male Student fr

[Texascavers] heaters for bats

2009-03-05 Thread Mixon Bill
Now there's a really dumb idea. If you heat up part of the cave, the bats will just move and hibernate in some cooler place. They have to hibernate in a suitably cool place in order to depress their metabolisms enough. Where do they find these people? -- Mixon ---

[Texascavers] [Found on web] ["Bat Box" Heaters Could Save Animals' Lives]

2009-03-05 Thread Don Arburn
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2009-03-05 Thread Charles Goldsmith
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[Texascavers] RE: Volunteering for Convention

2009-03-05 Thread Minton, Mark
Preston, Who do we need to contact about volunteering for helping with the two banquets in July? That would be Linda Palit. This is from the message that was posted a couple of weeks ago: 5) NSS and ICS Banquet Volunteers and Food Tasters Contact: Linda Palit lkpa...@sbcglobal.net

[Texascavers] Volunteering for Convention

2009-03-05 Thread Preston Forsythe
Who do we need to contact about volunteering for helping with the two banquets in July? Preston and Shari Forsythe in Outer Browder - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@

[Texascavers] carbon monoxide cave rescue

2009-03-05 Thread Mixon Bill
There was a famous (at the time, at least) cave rescue in Howards Waterfall Cave, near Trenton in northwestern George back in 1966. A party of Explorer Scouts set off an explosion of gasoline vapors that had seeped into the cave from a leaking storage tank in a gas station. Total of three f

[Texascavers] PNW Forest Service gears up for WNS

2009-03-05 Thread Louise Power
Just thought you might like to see this message from Pat Ormsbee, Bat Ecologist on the Willamette National Forest. Looks like they're gearing up to keep an eye on the bats here in the Pacific NW. If you want to keep in touch with her on this, her FS e-mail address is at the bottom of this messa

[ot_caving] FW: Pink dolphin appears in US lake - Telegraph

2009-03-05 Thread Fritz Holt
So pink that it makes you think that the photograph was altered. Fritz From: Jenny Holt [mailto:jhol...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:42 PM To: peggy holt; mandy holt; robbie dunlap; Fritz Holt Subject: Pink dolphin appears in US lake - Telegraph

Re: [Texascavers] well rescue in Mexico

2009-03-05 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Failure to heed safe operating instructions means this will happen again and again. Happened a few times in Houston last September when people ran their generators inside the house or garage, with the garage door closed. A related subject are people who die painting the insides of tanks. On W