All, If Region 3 approaches cavers about closing NM and AZ caves, I would demand that the first thing Region 3 considers is enforcement of the closures for:
Sandia Cave, NM. Lava River Cave, AZ Peppersauce Cave, AZ Each of these three wild caves receive thousands (in a couple cases "tens of thousands") of visitors each year. This means there will be a financial commitment needed by the USFS ... as I suspect that placing "cave closed" signage at the Peppersauce parking lot may not have the desired effect. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Peerman" <gypca...@comcast.net> To: "nmcaver" <nmca...@caver.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:18 PM Subject: [NMCAVER] Region 2 Cave Closure > All, > Region 2 of the USFS has announced their cave closure. Details are > at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/wns/index.shtml The actual closure > order is at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/wns/pdf/r2-wns-closure-order- > final.pdf > > It would appear to me that the gist of this "closure" order is that > cavers entering caves in District 2 are REQUIRED to go through > specific decon procedures. It doesn't say that all entry is > prohibited. I'm guessing that Region 3, (NM, AZ) will be right > behind on this. > > Steve Peerman > > "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things > you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, > Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. > Explore. Dream. Discover." > attributed to Mark Twain, but no record exists of his having > written this. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NMCAVER mailing list > nmca...@caver.net > http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/nmcaver_caver.net _______________________________________________ NMCAVER mailing list nmca...@caver.net http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/nmcaver_caver.net
