Thirteen years ago I published an article in The Texas Caver titled “TSS: Secrecy, Sharing, and Responsibility.” It outlined many of the topics touched on in this thread. I presented information on how and why TSS releases data and the interest of the average Texas caver in that data. Not much has changed since I wrote that article. If any of you are curious, you can find it at http://www.karstportal.org/node/11616.
George ******************** George Veni, PhD Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-9215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org<mailto:gv...@nckri.org> www.nckri.org<http://www.nckri.org> From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of via Texascavers Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 17:38 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Secrecy Meador's files ended up at the Brisco Center for American History in Austin. I've been making regular trips there to capture the information and archive it properly. At least he made some plans to have it stored somewhere though I have no idea how it ended up there. It's certainly not easy to access or use at it's present location. Jerry Atkinson. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 15, 2015, at 4:18 PM, via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: Right on, Diana. Texas Cavers should understand a case in point: all the accurate and valuable cave data acquired by Tom Meador. Fortunately, Tom published quite a bit. However a great deal more vanished after his death. Tom would have been really pissed. I do understand the important role that secrecy can and should play in the time between discovery and real protection of the resource. The quandary comes when you find something truly exceptional and cannot conceive of any way to preserve it short of secrecy or blowing the entrance shut. I have certainly been there. If no one can see it, is it still beautiful? If you found it and told no one, is your own life still significant? I have actually asked myself those questions. DirtDoc _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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