texascavers Digest 16 May 2011 01:45:06 -0000 Issue 1310
Topics (messages 17769 through 17777):
TPWD to Use LiDAR to Record Rock Art at Panther Cave
17769 by: Logan McNatt
5 mouth cave dig
17770 by: Bill Bentley
Cave of Forgotten Dreams now playing in Dallas
17771 by: Speleosteele.aol.com
More on Vietnam 3D film
17772 by: Lee H. Skinner
Looking for Charlie Savvas and/or Bev Shade
17773 by: Leslie Bell
Facebook related
17774 by: David
Incident at Enchanted Rock Cave, in the news
17775 by: Logan McNatt
17776 by: Rod Goke
Robber Baron Cleanup & Scout Project - Sat., May 21
17777 by: Joe & Evelynn Mitchell
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It's a rockshelter, not a cave, but hopefully this will be of interest to many
of you.
LiDAR was also used in the Devil's Sinkhole (State Natural Area) several years
ago, with the assistance of numerous Texas cavers.
Note: Tim Roberts is the TPWD archeologist I wrote about several weeks ago
whose house barely escaped the fires at Fort Davis.
TPWD NEWS RELEASE
*Media Contact:*Rob McCorkle, TPWD, (830) 866-3533 or robert.mccor...@tpwd.state.tx.us; Tim Roberts, cultural resources coordinator, (432)
426-3897 or tim.robe...@tpwd.state.tx.us
*May 11, 2011*
Lasers to be Used to Help Document, Preserve Ancient Rock Art
*/Project Beginning Soon at Seminole Canyon State Historic Site/*
COMSTOCK -- Fragile and fading rock art painted thousands of years ago in rock shelters and caves by indigenous peoples at *Seminole Canyon
State Historic Site* <http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/seminole_canyon/> will soon benefit from the latest in laser technology.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, working in partnership with the National Park Service and SHUMLA Archeological Research and Education
Center, has embarked on a technologically advanced program of documenting, monitoring, and preserving the rapidly deteriorating prehistoric rock
art at Panther Cave.
Beginning on May 19 contractors at Seminole Canyon west of Comstock will employ LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) mapping techniques to create
a 3-D map of Panther Cave, a large rock shelter just above the point where the canyon intersects the Rio Grande River along the banks of Lake
Amistad. Panther Cave in Val Verde County is well-known for its dramatic Pecos River Style pictographs, including a large leaping cat and a
number of anthropomorphic, or human-like, figures. The site is jointly managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and National Park Service.
Tim Roberts, TPWD's cultural resources coordinator for the region, says extremely detailed digital photos of the site's rock art will be
overlaid onto a 3-D model of Panther Cave. The rock art site can be accessed by boat, but a chain link fence across the mouth of the shelter
protects the fragile paintings within.
"The model will be used to help monitor the deterioration of the rock art and be available to visitors who are otherwise unable to access the
site, initially at computer stations, at Seminole Canyon State Park and Amistad National Recreation Area," Roberts explains. "It also will be
available to researchers at SHUMLA in Comstock and the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory."
The Panther Cave pictographs, which date as early as 4,300 years old based on available radiocarbon dates, have faced increased deterioration in
recent years due to apparent increased wasp nesting activities and possibly higher humidity levels within the shelter since the impoundment of
Lake Amistad in the late 1960s.
Each year thousands of visitors from all over the world find their way to the limestone canyons of the Lower Pecos River country. The main
reason most visit is to see the large, vibrant, multicolored paintings of pictographs of shamans, animals and other fantastical figures
decorating the walls and ceilings of rock shelters in the area. Guided tours are available to some of these sites, including one to the Fate
Bell Shelter in Seminole Canyon State Historic Site, that requires a short hike down from the park's visitor center on the canyon rim.
"Scientists will be able to compare the imagery resulting from this project with previous photographs to monitor weathering and other damage to
the pictographs," Roberts says. "LiDAR's accuracy will allow us over time to not only see differences in the rock art, but also to better
quantify the damage."
2011-05
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For tomorrow... cancelled for lack of interest!
Bill
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See:
_http://angelikafilmcenter.com/angelika_film.asp?hID=7915&ID=7781752.3912896
00w3u609859.52_
(http://angelikafilmcenter.com/angelika_film.asp?hID=7915&ID=7781752.391289600w3u609859.52)
Show times:
10:35 a.m., 12:55 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 7:55 p.m., and 10:10 p.m.
I highly recommend it.
Bill Steele
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See details at:
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Travel/2011/5/92553/
Lee Skinner
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Charlie or Bev,
Please contact me offline. We are trying to find more information on a part of
a cave most recently surveyed by the two of you.
512-673-2666bellem...@yahoo.com
Kind regards, Leslie Bell
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I am right now sending out personal invitations via e-mail to the 500
NSS members in Texas to
invite them to NaturFest.
This would be 100 times easier if all of these people were on Facebook
and on a common caving group
page such as, "AllTexas Caver," or the TSA group.
Most of the e-mails so far have bounced back, and many don't have
e-mails. Some are obvious typos.
Many have weird e-mail addresses that you have to carefully proofread,
which is no fun.
I would like to personally thank Mark Zuckerberg and the guys he stole
the idea from for making this
much easier. Facebook is the best way at the moment to plan events,
but I can see something else
coming along someday to do it even better, and I am willing to bet it
will be a product from the winner
of the Android/iOS war.
Someone should try to track the folks down in the NSS manual and send
them a Facebook invite to their
favorite group.
I am leaving for Brenham in just 4 days to start setting things up, so
this is the last chance I will get to
send out invites. If you never get an invite, it was not
intentional. Some of you didn't want one and
got it several times from different sources. Sorry about that.
Weather outlook so far for NaturFest is looking warm and muggy during
the day, but not so bad at night.
I have invited a whole lot more people this year, so if some of them
come, the event should break even.
David Locklear
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The incident at Enchanted Rock Cave has resulted in the usual mass media frenzy:
A new children's book series has been started, called "WHAT WOULD YOU DO . . .?"
Book 1 is "WHAT WOULD YOU DO . . . IF DADDY TOLD YOU NOT TO GO IN THAT CAVE?"
Gratuitous headlines soon to appear:
BOY LOST IN CAVERNS!!! Grotto described as LARGEST, LONGEST, DEEPEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL, AND MOST DANGEROUS in TEXAS, UNITED STATES, PLANET
EARTH, and probably the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, with unknown passages connecting to CARLSBAD, MAMMOTH, BUSTAMANTE, AND WONDER CAVE; RUMORED TO BE FINAL
RESTING PLACE OF LOST SPANISH GOLD, JIM BOWIE'S LOST GOLD MINE, D.B. COOPER'S ILL-GOTTEN LOOT, AMELIA EARHART, ROSWELL ALIENS, JIMMY HOFFA,
BATBOY, AND LOST CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS!!!!
BREAKING NEWS!!! RARE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI BURY UNIQUE SUBTERRANEAN WONDER
FOREVER. BATBOY ESCAPES!
The accompanying article just says: "Read the preceeding gratuitous headline."
LowGun:-D
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Perhaps some of the cavers with children out there could write one called
"WHAT WILL YOU DO . . . WHEN DADDY OR MOMMY INVITES YOU TO GO CAVING?"
By the way, was that really Batboy who was rescued from Enchanted Rock Cave? I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes his nickname after your headline is published. ;-) Rod
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From: Logan McNatt
Sent: May 15, 2011 5:38 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: [Texascavers] Incident at Enchanted Rock Cave, in the news
The incident at Enchanted Rock Cave has resulted in the usual mass media frenzy:
A new children's book series has been started, called "WHAT WOULD YOU DO . . .?"
Book 1 is "WHAT WOULD YOU DO . . . IF DADDY TOLD YOU NOT TO GO IN THAT CAVE?"
Gratuitous headlines soon to appear:
BOY LOST IN CAVERNS!!! Grotto described as LARGEST, LONGEST, DEEPEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL, AND MOST DANGEROUS in TEXAS, UNITED STATES, PLANET
EARTH, and probably the ENTIRE UNIVERSE, with unknown passages connecting to CARLSBAD, MAMMOTH, BUSTAMANTE, AND WONDER CAVE; RUMORED TO BE FINAL
RESTING PLACE OF LOST SPANISH GOLD, JIM BOWIE'S LOST GOLD MINE, D.B. COOPER'S ILL-GOTTEN LOOT, AMELIA EARHART, ROSWELL ALIENS, JIMMY HOFFA,
BATBOY, AND LOST CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS!!!!
BREAKING NEWS!!! RARE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI BURY UNIQUE SUBTERRANEAN WONDER FOREVER. BATBOY ESCAPES!
The accompanying article just says: "Read the preceeding gratuitous headline."
LowGun:-D
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There is a Robber Baron property cleanup and Eagle Scout Project scheduled for
this coming Sat. May 21 and your help is needed! The Eagle Project will involve
removal of sand and other material from inside the cave that was washed in
during the restoration project. On the surface, we have a brush pile and dirt
pile from previous cleanups to load onto a trailer for removal and if there is
enough time and manpower, there is also a new collection of rocks and fill
building up in the sinkhole to pull out. There may also be some trash pickup,
grass cutting and tree trimming to do depending on how things look.
We will get an early start at about 8am and work until sometime in the
afternoon and then volunteers are welcome to spend time in the cave.
Lunch will be provided! (If possible, let me know if you are planning to
attend.)
Digging tools are needed - shovels, picks, etc. We could also use some extra
buckets since many of ours are no longer in good shape. Also an extra trailer
may be needed for dirt removal - contact me directly if you can bring one.
Thanks!
Joe Mitchell
210-859-2105
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