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Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 3, August 2019, Laura Lexander Aug 2019

Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 3, August 2019, Laura Lexander

KIP Articles

Contents: Twenty Years of Owning Diamond Caverns -- Exploration in the World's Longest Cave -- Lava Beds National Monument, Siskiyou County, California South Castle Flow Expedition, March 24 - April 1, 2019 -- Lava Beds National Monument, April 22-29, 2019 -- Craters of the Moon National Monument, Blaine County, Idaho -- Ozark Operations Activities, March-June 2019 -- 2019 Expedition Calendar


Development Of A Karst Tourism Management Index To Assess Tourism-Driven Degradation Of Protected Karst Sites, Keith R. Semler Jul 2019

Development Of A Karst Tourism Management Index To Assess Tourism-Driven Degradation Of Protected Karst Sites, Keith R. Semler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The intent of this research was to create and evaluate a karst tourism management index (KTMI). This index is intended to be a new management tool designed to quantify environmental disturbances caused specifically by tourism activities in karst regions, particularly show caves and springs. In an effort to assess the effectiveness of the index as a management tool in karst terrains, after development, the index was applied to six case study sites. A review of the management policies at each study site was conducted with the use of standard policy critique methods and semistructured interviews with managers at the study …


Structural Control Of Mesic Vegetation Communities Within The Owl And Bear Creek Watersheds, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda S. Faulkner, Matthew Mcbroom, Kenneth W. Farrish, Kevin Stafford Jun 2019

Structural Control Of Mesic Vegetation Communities Within The Owl And Bear Creek Watersheds, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda S. Faulkner, Matthew Mcbroom, Kenneth W. Farrish, Kevin Stafford

Faculty Publications

The Fort Hood Military Installation is a karst landscape, dominated by Lower Cretaceous carbonates of the Trinity and Fredericksburg groups. The study area is the northeastern peninsula known as the Owl Mountain Province, utilized by the U.S. Army for troop maneuvers and training. The geomorphic evolution of the province has been controlled by the structural development of incised canyons in the Owl and Bear creek watersheds, following the deformational trend of the Balcones/Ouachita fault system and the transverse Belton High-Central Texas Reef Trend. These trends control cave development in the subsurface, karst manifestations at the surface, joints in outcrop, stream …


Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 2, May 2019, Laura Lexander May 2019

Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 2, May 2019, Laura Lexander

KIP Articles

Contents: President's Corner -- Evidence for Extreme Floods in New Discovery and Related Passages in Mammoth Cave -- Echo Spring Trip Report -- Lower Cave, February 2019, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico -- Ozark Operations Activities, December 2018 - March 2019 -- Oklahoma Ozarks -- Mammoth Cave: Labor Day Expedition, August 31 - September 3, 2018 -- Mammoth Cave: February Expedition, February 15-18, 2019 -- Just Published by Cave Books: Letters from Mammoth Cave -- 2019 Expedition Calendar


Flux Of Inorganic Carbon As Dissolved, Suspended, And Bed Loads Through A Karstic Basin, Randall Paylor, Carol Wicks Apr 2019

Flux Of Inorganic Carbon As Dissolved, Suspended, And Bed Loads Through A Karstic Basin, Randall Paylor, Carol Wicks

Faculty Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Most studies of carbonate bedrock weathering have focused on the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) flux while dismissing particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) as insignificant. However, under certain flow conditions PIC flux may be an important term in carbonate weathering. In this study, the total inorganic carbon (TIC) flux was calculated in a fluviokarst basin. Water samples and in situ data loggers were used to determine suspended sediment concentration and water chemistry. The mass of PIC within suspended sediments was quantified by cation/anion analysis of dual filtered/unfiltered samples. The flux of bed load material was calculated via …


Beneath The Forest, Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2019, Dan Seifert Apr 2019

Beneath The Forest, Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2019, Dan Seifert

KIP Articles

Contents: Best Practices in Show Caves Management -- White-Nose Syndrome Screening and Visitor Management at Lava River Cave -- Cave Conservation Education Comes to Montana and Colorado -- eCave: An Online Citizen Science Approach to Cave Monitoring -- Montana Caving Groups Receive Awards -- Jewel Cave: After Mile 200 -- Tips for Growing a Cave and Karst Program on your Forest


Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 1, February 2019, Laura Lexander Feb 2019

Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 47, No. 1, February 2019, Laura Lexander

KIP Articles

Contents: President's Corner -- Caves and Named Karst Features in Cave Research Foundation's Hamilton Valley, Kentucky -- Obituary for Robert Ray Parrish -- Elmer's Trench and Downflow Post Office Cave, Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, California, October 13-19, 2018 -- Ozark Operations Activities, September-December 2018 -- Mammoth Cave: Independence Day Expedition, June 29 - July 8, 2018 -- Mammoth Cave: CRF Annual Meeting and November Expedition, November 8-11, 2018 -- Mammoth Cave: Thanksgiving Expedition, November 21-25, 2018 -- Mammoth Cave: New Year's Expedition, December 28, 2018 - January 1, 2019 -- 2019 Expedition Calendar


Gota A Gota, No. 17, 2019, Toni Pérez Fernández Jan 2019

Gota A Gota, No. 17, 2019, Toni Pérez Fernández

KIP Articles

Portada de GOTA A GOTA nº 14 (2017) -- Editorial y datos de la publicación -- Breve crónica XVII Congreso Internacional de Espeleología de la UIS en Penrith "Cuevas en la Tierra Antigua" (Australia) -- Contribución al conocimiento de la biología subterránea de Andalucía (sur de España) V: nuevas aportaciones de Lucas von Heyden y Charles Piochard de la Brûlerie -- Neotectónica y patrones de cavernamiento en Punta Guanos, Matanzas, Cuba (III). El desarrollo del karst -- Serra de Na Burguesa. Zona de Puig de Vilarrassa y alrededores (Calvià, Mallorca) (2ªparte) -- La Cueva de la Raíz, mayor cavidad de …