Re: [Texascavers] Tree Roots in Caves

2021-04-30 Thread Jon
Cool, thanksJon On Friday, April 30, 2021, 10:04:10 AM CDT, Mark Minton wrote: While thumbing through the April NSS News (conservation issue), I came across an article about tree roots in lava tubes in New Mexico. One of the references in that article caught my eye: “Ecosystem rootin

Re: [Texascavers] Tree Roots in Caves

2021-04-30 Thread Jim Kennedy
Thanks, Mark. I took those guys to lots of caves, and never heard any results, either. Jim Mobile email from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2021, at 10:04 AM, Mark Minton wrote: > >  > While thumbing through the April NSS News (conservation issue), I came across > an article about tree roots in la

[Texascavers] Tree Roots in Caves

2021-04-30 Thread Mark Minton
While thumbing through the April NSS News (conservation issue), I came across an article about tree roots in lava tubes in New Mexico. One of the references in that article caught my eye: "Ecosystem rooting depth determined with caves and DNA" by R. B. Jackson, et al. Several Texas cavers, myself i

[Texascavers] camping at Government Canyon

2021-04-30 Thread Marvin and Lisa
If anyone is planning on camping at Government Canyon this weekend for the karst project, be advised that one of the camp sites is being reserved for a photo shoot. Please do not set up at the flagged site. Thanks, Marvin ___ Texascavers mailing

Re: [Texascavers] Neanderthals built cave structures

2021-04-30 Thread Bill Steele
For more than 3,000 years prehistoric indigenous cavers covered as much as 16 miles of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, seeking minerals. They not only traversed crawlways with their handheld torches, but they brought in poles and shinnied up them with their torches to higher passages. See: https://lin

Re: [Texascavers] Neanderthals built cave structures

2021-04-30 Thread Miles Abernathy
Wow. They must have taken their burning torches through the crawlway. On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 7:44 AM Mike Flannigan wrote: > > Neanderthals built cave structures > > https://www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-built-cave-structures-and-no-one-knows-why-1.19975 > > > ___

[Texascavers] Neanderthals built cave structures

2021-04-30 Thread Mike Flannigan
Neanderthals built cave structures https://www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-built-cave-structures-and-no-one-knows-why-1.19975 ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/t