Mark, Do you think the Feds are also not letting up on their policy for fear of lawsuits from environmental groups?
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mark Minton <mmin...@caver.net> wrote: > This is essentially what happened here in Virginia. Initially > there was a knee-jerk, blanket ban on caving, but then people realized that > cavers were the eyes and ears on and under the ground that provided > real-time info on how the bats were doing. The policy soon changed to > allowing caving with decon. That was true for everyone but the feds; the > USFWS never relaxed their caving ban. My guess is that they won't do so any > time soon - they are the most remote from cavers and the most impenetrable. > Fortunately for us that affects relatively few of the caves most of us visit > regularly. > >
