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Developing And Applying An Integrated Spatial Karst Evaluation And Management Priority Tool: Case Study In Tongass National Forest, Alaska, Usa, Christian Decelle

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Karst terrains are complex landscapes that are sensitive to human disturbance. Human activities have polluted and impacted many of these terrains around the world. To preserve these unique landscapes, many karst regions are protected and designated as national parks, geologic special areas, or UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Despite the widespread general protection of karst landscapes globally, a review of each area’s management plan reveals there is no standardized method of cave and karst management or evaluation of karst impacts.

The non-standardization of karst management strategies may be due to the gap that exists between the needs of karst land managers and …

Barren River Imaginative Museum Of Science - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 708. By-laws, board minutes, correspondence, newsletters, public relations material and information related to events and programming sponsored by the Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science (BRIMS) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The digital photographs have been saved in the WKU Photo Archives.

Mammoth Onyx Cave - Relating To (Sc 3504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3504. Letter, 15 August 1922, of Charles A. Richardson, Assistant Geologist, Kentucky Geological Survey, to Dr. Harry B. Thomas, Horse Cave, Kentucky, regarding his recent study of the formations in Mammoth Onyx Cave, then owned by Thomas. He remarks on the “abundance of Mexican Onyx, or Onyx Marble” and the beauty of the stalactites and stalagmites. Includes a pamphlet by Leon Foster with his impressions of the cave, which was opened to the public in 1922.

Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 677. Chiefly courtship letters written by Edward Daniel Covington while teaching high school industrial arts classes at St. Petersburg High School in Florida to his girlfriend and future wife, Evelyn Reynolds, Cave City, Kentucky. The 1933 letters mention the financial effects of the Great Depression and the difficulty of paying teachers.

De Paepe, Duane - Collector (Mss 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 625. The Duane De Paepe Kentucky Cave Saltpetre History Research Collection, a collection of historical research, field notes, cave surveys, photographs, maps, reports, and scholarly writing on saltpetre mining in Kentucky, especially at Mammoth Cave. The collection was created under a research program sponsored by the Cave Research Foundation and the National Geographic Society in Kentucky, 1976-1980, and directed by De Paepe.

Faust, Burton Sherwood, 1898-1967 (Mss 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 620. Correspondence, research notes, drafts, photographs, reference works and bibliographic material of Burton S. Faust relating to his studies of the chemical, historical and cultural aspects of saltpetre and of spelean saltpetre mining in the United States.

Hartz, Amelia Culley (Allen), B. 1950 (Fa 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1094. Student folk studies project titled: “Tales From Peacher Mill Road,” which includes survey sheets about the farms and residents of the Peacher Mill community in Montgomery County, Tennessee. Survey sheets may include a story, tradition, photo, name, and brief description.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.

Phylogeography Of Darlingtonea Kentuckensis And Molecular Systematics Of Kentucky Cave Trechines, Olivia Frances Boyd

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The monotypic cave carabid genus Darlingtonea is widely distributed along the eastern band of the Mississippian/Pennyroyal plateau in Kentucky and northern Tennessee. DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) was collected from one to four individuals from 27 populations, and patterns of phylogeography and population structure were inferred from COI haplotypes. A hierarchical analysis of molecular variance found low nucleotide diversity within populations and statistically significant variation among geographically-defined groups tested based on two a priori hypotheses of structure. Population structure among five distinct genetic clusters identifies approximate locations of barriers to gene flow among …

Morgan, Layton (Fa 803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text paper (click Additional Files below) for Folklife Archives Project 803. This collection features a term paper about supernatural stories relating to a cave on the author’s property in Logan County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Layton Morgan for credit in an “Introduction to Folk Studies” class.

Northcott, Henry Clay, 1822-1918 (Mss 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 519. Papers, primarily letters to Methodist minister Henry Clay Northcott and his daughter Annie Lou “Loulie” (Northcott) Carson. Includes a few items relating to Northcott’s wife Hannah Amanda (Lewis) Northcott and another daughter, Martha Catherine “Kate” (Northcott) Thomas.

Logan County, Kentucky - Caves (Sc 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1104. Two letters written 24 August 1964 by Rosa R. Head, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Jane Morningstar, Bowling Green. Head gives a firsthand description of Cook’s Cave in Logan County. Her parents owned the farm on which the cave was located and she grew up there.

Geeslin, Robert H. (Sc 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 974. Report titled “Caves of the Warren County, Kentucky area,” submitted by Robert H. Geeslin to the Cave Research Foundation, 1965? Includes holographic maps.

Lost River Cave - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 846), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 846. Correspondence, news clippings, and research notes made by Raymond L. Cravens related to Jesse James and Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes other promotional materials related to the cave.

Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text of diary (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 517. Photocopy of a typescript diary kept by David Barrow, a pioneer Baptist minister, during his trip to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory of Ohio. He visited family members, often preached at religious gatherings, and observed peace negotiations between the United States and various Indian tribes at Fort Greenville. Beginning in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, he traveled through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Northwest Territory, Eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina, before returning to his home in Virginia.

Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.

Cox, Carolyn Ann (Helm) (Fa 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 79. “1920-1930 Logan CountyFurnishings: The Felts House,” oral history project executed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interviews were recorded on cassette tape and are indexed.

Ua1c11/25 Lost River Cave Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs and postcards created by Lost River Cave & Valley.

Baldwin, Joseph Trimble, 1801-1840 (Sc 2037), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 2037. Letter from Baldwin, written in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife Louisa in Philadelphia. He writes of his travel in Kentucky and includes a description of Lost River Cave and grist mill.

Ross, Michelle Ann (Lowe) & Mark Brown, B. 1976 (Fa 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 356. Oral history interview conducted on 6 March 2001 by Michelle Ross and Mark Brown with Distinguished Professor Christopher Groves. Groves, a geography professor at WKU specializing in the study of hydrogeology, discusses his work as director of the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, his geological efforts to map the flow paths of underground rivers, and other cave-science related endeavors.

Simulation Modeling Of Karst Aquifer Conduit Evolution And Relations To Climate, John D. Broome

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

ABSTRACT Karst regions of the world that receive relatively similar amounts of precipitation display a wide variety of landscapes. It has been suggested (Groves and Meiman, 2005) that climates exhibiting larger discrete storm events have more dissolving power and consequently higher rates of conduit growth than climates with more uniform precipitation distributions. To study this concept, a computer program “Cave Growth” was developed that modeled the growth of a cross-section of a cave passage under dynamic flow and chemical conditions. A series of 46 simulation datasets were created to represent different climatic conditions. These simulations had the same total annual …

Ridington, Amber Flower, B. 1969 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 200. Transcriptions and cassette tapes (14) of interviews that Amber Ridington, Western Kentucky University student, had with Joe Marshall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and other individuals who were knowledgeable about the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a music and recreational venue in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With J. C. Hubbard (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with J. C. Hubbard conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 18 November 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With David Dye (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with David Dye conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 31 October 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With Doral Glen Conner, 1930-2020 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Glen Conner conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 23 October 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With Mary Ann Fisher, 1923-2004 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Mary Ann Fisher conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 6 October 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With Joseph Abraham Marshall 1924-2010, John Buell Edmonds B. 1945, Robert W. Phillips 1927-2005, And Bob Green (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Joseph Abraham "Joe" Marshall, John Buell Edmonds, Robert Phillips and Bob Green conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 28 September 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With Jodie Odis Blanton, 1924-2014 (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Odis Blanton conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 22 March 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interview With William H. Foster (Fa 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with William H. Foster conducted by Amber F. Ridington on 15 February 2001. From folk studies student project concerning the operations of the Quonset, 1946-1959, a recreational center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Walsh, Erica. Chris Groves Recovering After Dramatic Cave Rescue – Sides Cave
• Lynch, Caroline. Night-long Rescue Effort Has Happy Ending – Chris Groves
• Youngman, Sam. Students Helping Bowling Green Economic Boom
• Pre-Law Club Hosting Panel
• New Support Group Forming – Eating Disorders
• Hall, Rex. New Traffic Signal Delayed – University Boulevard
• Ragan, Jason. Engineering Program A Step Closer
• Student Government Association Will Benefit from Online Voting
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Virtual Voting
• Kreitzer, Debbie. Opinion Page an Instrument of Gossip
• Van der Meer, Wieb. …