texascavers Digest 15 May 2013 03:35:47 -0000 Issue 1756
Topics (messages 21771 through 21777):
Re: my personal story
21771 by: Fritz Holt
A way to find caves in the Guads
21772 by: Lee H. Skinner
21773 by: Andy Gluesenkamp
21774 by: Mark Minton
Urgent: Bracken Cave bat colony needs your help
21775 by: Frank Binney
21777 by: George D. Nincehelser
Re: Dr. Donald L. Johnson
21776 by: Logan McNatt
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David,
What ladder? Did you ever locate the extra long ladder that I wanted to buy
from you a couple of years ago? I am happily living on my "Triple Creek Ranch"
five miles north of Dripping Springs off of Fitzhugh Rd. If anyone wants to
visit my little Hill Country paradise it is at 12737 Silver Creek Rd., Dripping
Springs, 78620. My precious June and I will be married August 3, 2013.
Fritz Holt, the lucky guy.
713-818-2496
Sent from my iPhone
On May 14, 2013, at 1:10 PM, caverarch <cavera...@aol.com> wrote:
> Me, too, David. It was great that your ladder finally found a proper home!
> And that you are enjoying the dig.
>
> Roger G. Moore
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mallory Mayeux <mmay...@gmail.com>
> To: David <dlocklea...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com>
> Sent: Mon, May 13, 2013 10:33 pm
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] a personal story - blog style
>
> I liked your blog David! Nice to see someone so excited about a caving
> project. Glad you (and your ladder) got back underground.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 13, 2013, at 10:04 PM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't see anyone post anything about the last Kiwi Sink dig, and I wanted
>> to say
>> some more than I previously posted, so the link below has my version of
>> pieces of the events that
>> took place.
>>
>> It is long-winded, so I thought I would try the blog style of presenting it.
>> It has been about
>> 3 years since I tried blogging, so I don't know if I am doing it right.
>>
>> http://david-locklear.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Just don't click on it please, if you are not interested.
>>
>> I am going to try to make next Sunday's dig at Kiwi Sink.
>>
>> David Locklear
>> caver in Fort Bend County, Texas
>> 281-995-8487 ( text-line )
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Hunters In Louisiana Build Thermal Camera Carrying Drone to Hunt Hogs
http://tinyurl.com/d5fnsgr
N?ow how about using it to hunt blowholes in the Guadalupes on a cold
winter day, or hot summer day with that thermal camera.?
Lee Skinner
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This sounds like a job for Agent Cooper.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 14, 2013, at 4:52 PM, "Lee H. Skinner" <skin...@thuntek.net> wrote:
> Hunters In Louisiana Build Thermal Camera Carrying Drone to Hunt Hogs
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/d5fnsgr
> N?ow how about using it to hunt blowholes in the Guadalupes on a cold winter
> day, or hot summer day with that thermal camera.?
> Lee Skinner
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Greg Springer has recently used a good-quality commercial
infrared camera to locate blow holes in West Virginia. See
<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXjRzaS87Y>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXjRzaS87Y>
and
<<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760t_B-pDXY>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760t_B-pDXY>.
Subsequent discussions revealed that the camera on a cell phone or
other inexpensive IR cameras are not likely to be sensitive enough
for this application. It may require a relatively expensive,
dedicated IR camera. Nevertheless, the potential seems quite good.
Mark
At 05:52 PM 5/14/2013, Lee H. Skinner wrote:
Hunters In Louisiana Build Thermal Camera Carrying Drone to Hunt Hogs
http://tinyurl.com/d5fnsgr
N?ow how about using it to hunt blowholes in the Guadalupes on a
cold winter day, or hot summer day with that thermal camera.?
Lee Skinner
Please reply to mmin...@caver.net
Permanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org
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Subject: Urgent: Bracken Cave bat colony needs your help
Dear Friends of Bracken Cave Reserve and BCI,
I¹m writing today to ask for urgent action to protect Bracken Cave Preserve
from imminent danger. Crescent Hills is a proposed 3800 home subdivision
along the Preserve¹s southern boundary.
This development is a threat to conservation, the local economy and public
health:
1. 10 million bats will fly directly over 10 thousand residents each
night, creating an unnecessary risk to pets and people from the contact with
sick or injured bats.
2. Security threats to the cave and reserve will dramatically
increase, as will the cost to guard against trespassers which could destroy
the colony with one careless or intentional act.
3. 3800 homes on 1500 acres are high density 14 acre lots on top of
important aquifer recharge zone.
4. This is known Golden-cheecked Warbler habitat and a sensitive karst
area.
If you live locally:
Please join us as Citizens to Be Heard to speak or just bear witness. On
Wednesday, May 22nd at 6: pm City Council has a B Session that includes
³Citizens to be Heard². This is an opportunity for individual citizens to
address the City Council. The meeting takes place at 100 Military Plaza,
San Antonio and starts at 6 p.m.
If you are coming, please notify the Mayor¹s Office and your Council
representative and ask that they stay to hear the people.
If you are interested in speaking, instructions for sign-up are: Citizens
must register between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the day of the meeting in order
to speak. The link to register online
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=4
31426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fyourcity%2Fmeetingappear
.aspx> becomes available on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at this website:
(http://www.sanantonio.gov/yourcity/meetingappear.aspx). Alternatively,
between 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., citizens can register in person at the
Registration Desk on the afternoon of the meeting. Citizens are given 3
minutes each to speak about their issue, and groups of 3 or more are given a
total of 9 minutes. You can yield your time, if you like, to someone who
may have a longer presentation.
If you cannot attend - Please contact the Mayor and your City Council
Representative
<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=4
31426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fcouncil> to voice your
concerns. (http://www.sanantonio.gov/council
<http://www.sanantonio.gov/council> )
Please write - help us reach out to the San Antonio Planning Commission and
City Council with your letters and emails. Ask them to:
Decrease density to 1-3 acres tracks which is compatible with surrounding
neighborhoods, or
prohibit residential development within a certain distance of the cave. (SA
City Council created a 3 mile no-residential development zone around the
Toyota plant.)
Please forward this to others
If you do not live locally, and if you do: BCI will be grateful for all
letters of support, expressing the importance of the Reserve, the cave and
the colony. We would also appreciate your suggestions and especially
contacts with anyone who may have influence in or on the City Council and/or
Mayor¹s office.
BCI will soon have add special webpage with more information about and
regular updates on the situation and what more you can do to help save, what
a National Geographic photographer has called, ³One of the world¹s top ten
wildlife spectacles, and the only one in the United States.²
www.batcon.org/Bracken <http://www.batcon.org/Bracken>
Sincere thanks,
James
James E. Eggers
Director of Education
jegg...@batcon.org <mailto:jegg...@batcon.org>
(512) 327-9721 ext. 12
<https://www.batcon.org/>
P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716-2603
500 Cap. of Texas Hwy. N., Austin, TX 78746-3302
(512) 327-9721 Fax(512) 327-9724
The content of this email is intended only for the use of the above-named
addressee and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary,
and/or legally privileged. Please notify the sender if you received this
email in error.
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Item #1 made me do a double-take. It sounds anti-bat. Perhaps it could be
worded in a different way?
George
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Frank Binney <fr...@frankbinney.com> wrote:
> *Subject: *Urgent: Bracken Cave bat colony needs your help
>
> Dear Friends of Bracken Cave Reserve and BCI,
>
> I’m writing today to ask for urgent action to protect Bracken Cave
> Preserve from imminent danger. Crescent Hills is a proposed 3800 home
> subdivision along the Preserve’s southern boundary.
>
> This development is a threat to conservation, the local economy and public
> health:
>
>
>
> 1. 10 million bats will fly directly over 10 thousand residents each
> night, creating an unnecessary risk to pets and people from the contact
> with sick or injured bats.
>
> 2. Security threats to the cave and reserve will dramatically
> increase, as will the cost to guard against trespassers which could destroy
> the colony with one careless or intentional act.
>
> 3. 3800 homes on 1500 acres are high density ¼ acre lots on top of
> important aquifer recharge zone.
>
> 4. This is known Golden-cheecked Warbler habitat and a sensitive
> karst area.
>
> *If you live locally*:
>
> *Please join us* as Citizens to Be Heard to speak or just bear witness.
> On Wednesday, May 22nd at 6: pm City Council has a B Session that includes
> “Citizens to be Heard”. This is an opportunity for individual citizens to
> address the City Council. The meeting takes place at 100 Military Plaza,
> San Antonio and starts at 6 p.m.
> If you are coming, please notify the Mayor’s Office and your Council
> representative and ask that they stay to hear the people.
> If you are interested in speaking, instructions for sign-up are: Citizens
> must register between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the day of the meeting in order
> to speak. The link to register online <
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=431426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fyourcity%2Fmeetingappear.aspx>
> becomes available on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at this website: (
> http://www.sanantonio.gov/yourcity/meetingappear.aspx). Alternatively,
> between 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., citizens can register in person at the
> Registration Desk on the afternoon of the meeting. Citizens are given 3
> minutes each to speak about their issue, and groups of 3 or more are given
> a total of 9 minutes. You can yield your time, if you like, to someone who
> may have a longer presentation.
> *If you cannot attend* - Please contact the Mayor and your City Council
> Representative <
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3010357&msgid=377992&act=B3IY&c=431426&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanantonio.gov%2Fcouncil>
> to voice your concerns. (http://www.sanantonio.gov/council <
> http://www.sanantonio.gov/council> )
>
>
>
> *Please write* - help us reach out to the San Antonio Planning Commission
> and City Council with your letters and emails. Ask them to:
>
> Decrease density to 1-3 acres tracks which is compatible with surrounding
> neighborhoods, or
>
> prohibit residential development within a certain distance of the cave.
> (SA City Council created a 3 mile no-residential development zone around
> the Toyota plant.)
>
> *Please forward this to others
> *
>
> *If you do not live locally, and if you do:* BCI will be grateful for all
> letters of support, expressing the importance of the Reserve, the cave and
> the colony. We would also appreciate your suggestions and especially
> contacts with anyone who may have influence in or on the City Council
> and/or Mayor’s office.
> BCI will soon have add special webpage with more information about and
> regular updates on the situation and what more you can do to help save,
> what a National Geographic photographer has called, “One of the world’s top
> ten wildlife spectacles, and the only one in the United States.”
> www.batcon.org/Bracken <http://www.batcon.org/Bracken>
> Sincere thanks,
> James
> *James E. Eggers
> **Director of Education
> *jegg...@batcon.org <mailto:jegg...@batcon.org <jegg...@batcon.org>>
> (512) 327-9721 ext. 12
> <https://www.batcon.org/>
>
> *P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716-2603
> 500 Cap. of Texas Hwy. N., Austin, TX 78746-3302 *
>
> *(512) 327-9721 Fax(512) 327-9724*
> *The content of this email is intended only for the use of the
> above-named addressee and may contain information that is confidential,
> proprietary, and/or legally privileged. Please notify the sender if you
> received this email in error.
> *
>
>
>
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Message
>
>
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FYI, for the geomorphologists/geologists/archaeologists who might have known
him or his papers.
Logan
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Subject: Dr. Donald L. Johnson
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:36:16 -0500
From: Paul V. Heinrich <hein...@lsu.edu>
Reply-To: Paul V. Heinrich <hein...@lsu.edu>
To: txarc...@listserv.tamu.edu
Dr. Donald L. Johnson, who was a wonderful geomorphologist,
geologist, soils scientist, and geoarchaeologist, passed away on
Friday May 10 according to Dr. Bruce L. Rhoads, Department of
Geography, University of Illinois. He and Jennifer Horwath Burnham
were recently awarded the G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in
Geomorphic Research from the Association of American
Geographers for their GSA Special Paper on Mima Mounds.
He published extensively on pimple mounds and about the role of
biota in soil and landform evolution. This research resulted in his
dynamic denudation-biomantle theory. He also published
numerous papers on geomorphology, soil science, Quaternary
geology, and geoarchaeology.
I first met him as an MS student at University of Illinois. Ever
since then, he was a wonderful colleague and friend, and is
greatly missed.
Dr. Donald L. Johnson's web page is at
http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/dljohns
CV: https://apps.atlas.illinois.edu/CvStorage/documents/users/dljohns
PDF files of some his many papers can be found at
https://www.box.com/dljohnsonshared
Also, there is:
Mima Mounds as Upper Soil Biomantles - South Puget Sound Prairies
http://w.southsoundprairies.org/documents/WCSSMimaPoster9-6-061.6kpdf.pdf
Mima Mounds: The Case for Polygenesis and Bioturbation
Geological Society of America Special Paper no. 490.
http://www.geosociety.org/bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=9&pID=SPE490
http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/toc/spe490.htm
Yours,
Paul V. Heinrich
Baton ropuge, LA 70803
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