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HOSTS:
National Speleological Society 
American
Cave Conservation Association Cave
Research Foundation The
Karst Waters Institute National
Caves AssociationThe
Nature ConservancyU.
S. Forest Service U.
S. National Park Service U.S.
Bureau of Land Management U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service
CO-SPONSORS:
British Columbia Speleological Federation British
Columbia Ministry of Forests Northwest
Caving Association Oregon
Grotto of the NSS Northwest
Chapter of the ACCA Northwest
Cave Research Institute BC
Parks Bat
Conservation International Washington
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Richmond
Area Speleological Society Terra Associates Western Forest Products Limited MacMillan Bloedel Limited Canadian Forest Products Limited The
Record (Gold River) Mount Tahoma Chapter of the American
Association of Zoo Keepers
David Foster, American Cave Conservation Association
Jennifer Jinx Fox, U. S. Bureau of Land Management
Roger McClure, Cave Research Foundation
Robert R. Currie, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Jim Miller, U. S. Forest Service
Dr. Rane L. Curl, The Karst Waters Institute
Gordon L. Smith, Jr., National Caves Association
Ronal Kerbo, U. S. National Park Service
Janet B. Thorne, National Speleological Society
Gabby Call, The Nature Conservancy, Tennessee
Chapter
Steering Committee Coordinator
Janet Thorne
Organizing Committee
Rob
Stitt, U.S. Co-Chair; Paul Griffiths, Canadian Co-Chair; Libby Nieland, Treasurer; Tom Strong, Program Chair;
Dick Garnick, Local
Arrangements; Dave
Klinger, Sponsorship and Volunteers; Mark Sherman, Publicity; Jim Nieland, Mt. St. Helens
Field Trips; Donovan
Whistler, Publications; Eric Larsen, Sponsorship; Reid Robinson & Sue Vessey; Martin Davis, Canadian
Vendors; Steve
Sprague, U.S. Vendors; Bill Marshall; Alisa Vanderberg; Mack Pitchford, Registration; Pat Shaw, Chilliwack Field Guide; Denis Moffatt, Phil Whitfield;
Michael Compton;
Rick Coles; Jim Baichtal, Alaska Field
Trips; Karen
Griffiths, Travel Arrangements; Sheryl Craig, Registration; Linda Heslop, Graphics Design; The rest of the gang: John Madsen, Rob Wall, Ken Langdale, Cam
Brady, Len Titus, Hal Reveley, Gerry Still, Charlie Cornfield, Bill Bennett,
Laura Friis, Scott Davis, Dave Hopf
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Table of
Contents
Opening Remarks.................................................................................................................................... 1
Rob Stitt, Paul
Griffiths, and Janet Thorne
Role of the Epikarstic
Zone in Temperate Rain Forest Management in Alaska........................................... 3
Tom Aley and Cathy Aley
Application of a Karst
Management Strategy: Two Case Studies
from the Tongass National Forest, Southeastern Alaska The Challenges of Implementation............................................................................................................ 4
James F. Baichtal
Karst Landscapes and
Associated Resources: A Resource
Assessment - Poster Presentation.............. 12
James F. Baichtal
Karst Management in
British Columbia.................................................................................................. 13
Bronwen Beedle
Salmonid Populations in
the Karst Landscape of North Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska........... 22
Mason D. Bryant, Ph.D.,
Douglas N. Swanston, Robert C. Wissmar, and Brenda E. Wright
Use of Dye Tracing and
Recharge Area Delineation in Cave Protection and Conservation on Private Land 23
Gabrielle K. Call, Tom
Aley, David L. Campbell, and John Farr
The Distribution of
Troglobitic and Troglophilic Invertebrates in Southeast Alaska................................... 28
Kent R. Carlson
Invertebrate Habitat
Complexity in Southeast Alaskan Karst Ecosystems................................................ 34
Kent R. Carlson
Impacts on invertebrate
cave fauna in forested karst ecosystems and recommended protection measures in
forested karst areas of Tasmania.................................................................................................................................. 44
Arthur Clarke
Entranceless and
Nonproper Cave Management.................................................................................... 53
Rane Curl, Ph.D.
The Karst Waters
Institute - Karst Science Serving Groundwater and Biological Resources.................... 54
Rane Curl, Ph.D. and
Ira Sasowsky, Ph.D.
Protecting Stanton’s
Cave..................................................................................................................... 55
Robert R. Currie and
Jim Petterson
Bat Usage Of The Weymer
Creek Cave Systems On Northern Vancouver Island, Canada..................... 56
Trudy A. Chatwin,
Martin Davis, and David Nagorsen
EPIK: Cartographic Method for Assessing the
Vulnerability of Karst Aquifers for the purpose of
Delineating Protection Zones.............. ...............................................................................................................................................61
Nathalie Doerfliger and
Francois Zwhalen
Heceta Island: An
Example of Karst Management in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska...................... 66
Kris Esterson
Northern Vancouver
Island Karst and Cave Tourism, Past and Present.................................................. 67
Karen Griffiths
Analogous midsummer
maximum daily air temperature and relative humidity profiles from sideslopes of
a northern
Vancouver Island sinkhole before and after clearcutting.......................................................................... 68
Paul Griffiths
Searching For Cave
Entrances In Old-Growth Forests: An Overview Of Ground-Based Methods Employed
In North And
Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia.......................................................................................... 69
Paul Griffiths
The IUCN Guidelines for
Cave and Karst Protection............................................................................. 81
Elery Hamilton-Smith
Bat Interpretation by
Infra-red Imaging at Naracoorte World Heritage Area, South Australia.................. 84
Elery Hamilton-Smith
and Brian Clark
Monitoring visitor experience
and environmental conditions at Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, Australia. 87
Elery Hamilton-Smith
Cave Softly . . .
and Leave No Trace -
Poster Presentation................................................................. 92
Val Hildreth-Werker and
Jim C. Werker
A Synthesis of New Cave
Lighting Design Concepts Using Low Voltage Lighting Systems to Light Developed
Caves 93
Rodney D. Horrocks
Mountain Ladyslippers
on White Ridge, Vancouver Island..................................................................... 94
by Frank Hovenden and
Betty Brooks
The Great Leap Forward
- Deforestation Ecological Disaster in the South China Karst Belt.................... 96
Peter Huntoon, Ph.D.
State Endangered
Species Associated with the Spelean Environment Poster Presentation....................... 97
George N. Huppert,
Ph.D. and Betty J. Wheeler
BCI’s North American
Bat Conservation Partnership:
Cooperative Aid for Bat Cave Management........ 98
Jim Kennedy
Management Concerns in
the Development of Rock Climbing Recreation Areas in Caves..................... 109
Larry King
Development of a
Conservation Agreement to Protect Cave Invertebrates and Obviate Listing as
Endangered Species in Bexar County, Texas........................................................................................................................... 110
Kenneth J. Kingsley
Cave Maps As
Geographical Information Systems: An
Example From Oregon Caves National Monument 116
Steve Knutson
The Nature Conservancy
at work in the Indiana karst: The
bioinventory of the subterranean fauna of the Blue River Bioreserve........................................................................................................................................... 117
Julian J. Lewis and F.
Allen Pursell
The Tongass Cave
Project................................................................................................................... 122
Stephen W. Lewis
Roosting And Hibernal
Ecology Of Bats In Southeast Alaska’s Karstlands........................................... 128
Stephen W. Lewis
Conservation Of Cave
Roosting Bats at a North Florida State Park...................................................... 132
Mark Ludlow and Jeff
Gore
Advances in GPS
Receivers for Locations in Densely Forested and Hilly Terrain — Poster
Presentation 136
John T. M. Lyles
Conservation Practices
for the Improvement of Water Quality of the Mammoth Cave Karst Aquifer..... 137
Joe Meiman and Chris
Groves
Surface Developments
Above Wind Cave - Studying the Impacts........................................................ 138
Jim Nepstad
Christmas Tree Cave Bat
Gating Project, Mt. Adams Ranger District................................................... 142
Jim Nieland, David
Anderson, and Chandra Madrona
The Human Nature of
Caving and Cave Conservation at Mammoth Cave National Park....................... 143
Rick Olson
Cave Entrance
Management: Principles and Practice at Mammoth Cave National Park......................... 147
Rick Olson, John Fry,
Joe Meiman, Bob Ward, Scott Henrickson, Jeff Bradybaugh
SpeleoMeshing: A
Technique for High Definition Cave Surveys............................................................ 151
Greg Passmore
Conservation/Restoration
Efforts in the Caves of Carlsbad Caverns National Park................................ 152
Dale Pate
Conservation
Challenges: Restoration of the Caves of
Central Oregon................................................. 153
Garry Petrie
A New Map for Carlsbad
Caverns...................................................................................................... 157
Jason M. Richards
An Inventory of Caves
and Related Karst Features in the Canadian Rockies, with Management
Recommendations 158
Jonathan Rollins
Biotic Carrying
Capacity at Oregon Caves........................................................................................... 159
John Roth
Methods for Monitoring
Large Colonies of Mexican Free-tailed Bats
- Poster Presentation................. 160
Bill Route, Tom Bemis,
and David Roemer, Val Hildreth-Werker and Jim Werker
Cave Conservation and
Management on the World Wide Web: Part
II................................................ 170
Robert R. Stitt
Digital Cave/Karst Potential
Mapping In Northern Vancouver Island: A Strategic Forestry Planning Tool 171
Tim Stokes, Nick
Massey, and Paul Griffiths
Restoration, Trail
Designation, and Microbial Preservation in Lechuguilla Cave..................................... 182
Jim Werker and Val
Hildreth-Werker
National Cave Survey
Data Collection Standards................................................................................. 191
Mike Yocum and Mike
Wiles
Project
Underground - Poster Presentation........................................................................................ 195
Margot Geisler and
Carol Zokaites
Oil And Gas Drilling in
Cave and Karst Areas: A Process of
Mitigating Impacts................................... 196
James R. Goodbar
Chilliwack Valley Field
Trip Guide....................................................................................................... 201
Compiled and edited by
Pat Shaw
Northern Vancouver
Island Field Tour................................................................................................. 208
Compiled and Edited by
Paul Griffiths
Mailing Address of
Participants............................................................................................................ 245