Is there a list of caves on BLM land? I would really love to see a list
of the 97%, so I know what caves I might pursue access to. I know the
Federal Cave Protection Act bans publishing locations but not names. The
majority of BLM caves that I personally know of are closed.
Although technically I guess none of them are closed since the closure
order expired in 2013.
Aaron
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Mt Erebus Volcano Observatory
On 06/12/2014 10:47 AM, Bob Buecher wrote:
Bill,
The truth of the matter is that BLM has closed less than thirty caves
out of the thousand or so caves on BLM land. Also the closed caves
are those that have significant numbers of bats.
So this is all about the closure of less than 3% of BLM caves.
I know that reading the emails on this list would give you the
impression that ALL of the BLM caves were closed.
For a balanced discussion we should be saying that BLM has closed a
few caves. I doubt that will happen. It is as they say an
inconvenient truth.
Bob Buecher
p.s. We will not be going to the regional this weekend, too much else
to do. Besides we don't need to drive for six hours to spend time with
disagreeable people, there are enough in Tucson.
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-----Original Message----- From: Bill Bentley
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:53 AM
To: Kenneth Ingham ; s...@caver.net
Subject: Re: [SWR] Bat hibernation
Kenneth,
I admit cause I don't know and have not been involved that much, and I
am old, fat and too busy maintaining caver related mailing lists that
take up too much time... But are BLM caves that have no bats, never had
any history of bats, are not conducive to ever enticing any bats to
ever colonize them, also closed?
If so, then that, in my mind make no sense at all.
I think what has so many cavers upset is the lack of communication from
the BLM...
But I only observe from what I read from others.
Caver, friend and list owner/moderator...
Bill Bentley
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