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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 4, November 1993

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: CRF Archeologists Identify 8000 Year Old Human Remains From a Colorado Cave -- Hamilton Valley: an update on CRF Property / Roger McClure Richard Zopf -- Cave Rescue: Phil DiBlasi Jan Hemberger give a first hand account of Ken Carsten's rescue -- Lechuguilla Mineral Inventory / Harvey DuChene -- Interview with Jack Freeman / Sue Hagan -- Chinese cavers visit U.S. / Ron Birdgemon Ian Baren -- Review of Cave Life by Chapman and Niagara by Watson -- Plus expedition reports, NPS news and more

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 3, August 1993

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: China Caves '93 / Mick Sutton -- Readers Write -- CRF's New Home: Hamilton Valley Update / Red Watson -- 1993 CRF Fellowship Winners / John C. Tinsley -- CRF Annual Meeting '93 / Red Watson -- Fatality on Kentucky Cave Tour -- Love Bats? Adopt! -- Fire at Guadalupe Mountains NP -- Expeditions -- Exploratory Drilling in Missouri Ozarks Halted -- Forest Service Assumes Ownership of Greer Spring -- How Not to Poison Your Survey Crews / Buz Grover -- Buy Cave Books -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 2, May 1993

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Coming Our Way: CRF Headquarters / Mel Park -- CRF Mission Statement -- Bill to Protect Lechuguilla Cave Introduced in Congress -- New Management Plan for Carlsbad Caverns NP -- Carlsbad Underground Concessions: Environmental Assessment Completed -- Mammoth Cave National Park Oral History Project -- Ground Trail Ladder Tale / Pete Lindsley -- Addendum: The Grund Trail Revisited / Mel Park -- Expeditions -- Sides Cave -- Hamilton Valley Work Weekend Schedule -- Open Letter to all Joint Venturers -- The Underground Reader / S. Hagan -- CRF Expedition to China 1993 -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 1, February 1993

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: The Echo River-Turnhole Bend Overflow Route / Joe Meiman and Martin Ryan -- CRF Land Purchase at Mammoth Cave -- CRF to Return to China -- Intruders at Mammoth Cave-What is the JV's responsibility -- CRF JVs Appointed to Positions at Carlsbad and Mammoth Cave -- Personal Guidelines for Eastern JVs / Richard Zopf -- 1992 Annual Meeting -- Election of CRF Members -- 1993 Cave Management Symposium -- Mammoth Cave Ecology Program -- Expeditions -- Lechuguilla Precision Survey Wrapped Up / James Hardy, Robert Babb, Fritzi Hardy -- Guadalupe's Cave Biology - An Interview with Diana Northup -- Lechuguilla Survey Resumes -- MCNP Land Acquisition -- The Underground Reader / Viewer / Richard Zopf -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 4, November 1992

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Chocolate High in Carlsbad Cavern / Patricia Kambesis -- NSS Convention and Awards -- BLM Drilling Proposal May Threaten Lechuguilla Cave -- Aboriginal Dates from Mammoth Cave / Mary Kennedy -- Names with Faces-A Photographic Record of Early Mammoth Cave Visitors / Chuck Swedlund -- Mammoth Cave length Update -- Expeditions -- The Blind Snail of Mammoth Cave and Indiana / Jerry Lewis -- Mammoth Cave Prehistory-Another Perspective -- The Underground Reader -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 3, August 1992

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Hydrology of Buffalo Creek, Mammoth Cave National Park / Martin Ryan and Joe Meiman -- CRF 1992 Fellowship Recipients / John C. Tinsley -- Tom Poulson Hired at MCNP -- More Groundwater Problems at Mammoth Cave? -- Cave Floods and How Not To Be In One / Tim Schafstall -- Expeditions -- Lechuguilla Politics -- Leitheuser's Shrimp Collection / Jerry Lewis -- A Superb Third Light Source / Rick Olson -- Fitton Cave, 1991 / Pete Lindsley -- Liburn Notes / John Tinsley -- The Underground Reader -- Daguerreotype of Carlsbad Cavern--a Belated First! -- First Mammoth Cave Base Map Completed -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 2, May 1992

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Board of Directors Meeting -- John Floyd Bridge 1933-1992 -- New CRF President -- CRF Welcomes Ten New Members -- Carlsbad Cavern Superintendent Wallace Elms to Retire -- National Geographic Society Cave Movie -- Expeditions -- Digging in Your Own Backyard: An Interview with Dave Weller / Kevin Downs -- A Survey Station Labeling Pencil / Rick Olson -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 1, February 1992

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: The Endless Crawl: Allen's Branch Cave -- Bulletin Board -- 1991 Annual Meeting Cancelled -- Readers Write -- Second China Expedition Underway -- The Chosa Draw (New Mexico) Project -- Lewis Cutliff Retires -- Extended Stays in Mammoth Caves -- Expeditions -- 6th International Vulcanospeleology Symposium -- Sides Farm: A New Home for CRF-East? -- Dispute shuts down Lechuguilla survey -- Starting a New CRF Project - A Blueprint for Success -- Flooding in Hawkins River -- The Underground Reader -- Mammoth Cave Latest Length -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 4, November 1991

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Wish You Were Here: Mammoth Cave on Postcards -- Bulletin Board -- Lechuguilla Cave Project Wins Award -- 1991 NSS Awards -- Caveland Sanitation Program Moves Ahead -- MCNP Acquires Part of Route 255 -- Mammoth Cave Science Conference -- SMAPS: A Big Improvement in Data Swapping -- Wind Cave Surveyors Solicited -- Karst Waters Institute -- Expeditions -- The Underground Reader -- Unearthing Mammoth Cave's Past: An Interview with Phil DiBlasi -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 3, August 1991

  Sue Hagan and Mick Sutton

  Contents: Big Holes in the Southern Highlands -- Notes from Here & There -- Cave Specialist Appointed at Carlsbad -- Bulletin Board -- Lechuguilla Update -- The 1991 CRF Fellowships -- Norm Pace Elected to National Academy of Sciences -- On the Path to Glory -- Mammoth Cave 50th Anniversary -- Guadalupe's -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Missouri Cave Inventory Set to Resume -- Roppel Cave: Where Will It All End? -- Mammoth Cave Bat Survey -- Mexican Freetail Bats in Trouble -- U. of Arizona Administrators go Batty -- Lilburn Latest -- The Underground Reader -- 1991 CRF Annual Meeting -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 2, May 1991

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Up The L-Survey -- Bulletin Board -- Readers Write -- NPS, CRF Organizational Changes in the Guadalupe's -- Mammoth Cave National Park Golden Anniversary -- Park City Sewage Link -- UP Hits Another Snag -- National, Local Memos of Understanding Go Into Effect -- Mammoth Cave Research Conference -- Fitton Cave Survey Resumes -- Large Fossil Burrows In Mammoth Cave -- Expedition -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri -- Missouri Cave Inventory Delayed by Bureaucratic Snafu -- Mammoth Cave 330 miles Long -- Interview with Bob Osburn -- Cave Geographical Information system -- Will It Work For Mammoth Cave? -- The Underground Reader -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 1, February 1991

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: End of an Era -- Where there's a Will -- Bulletin Board -- Readers Write -- CRF Board Meets In Tucson -- New CRF Members -- How Long is the Longest Cave -- Buffalo Creek Cave and the Hydrology of the Dry Prong -- Cathedral Domes Restoration Damages Research Site -- Karst Research Conference at Mammoth Cave -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Lava Beds National Monument -- New Mexico -- Fort Stanton Cave -- The Black Community at Mammoth Cave: Recollections of Harry Smith -- Interview with Roger Brucker -- The Underground Reader -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 4, November 1990

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: CRF-East Moves to Maple Springs -- Bulletin Board -- Notes From Here and There -- Ron Kerbo Honored At NSS Meeting -- Wku's Speleology Course Completes 11th Year -- Forest Service Memo. Of Understanding Signed -- Carlsbad Cavern Restoration -- Carlsbad Cavern Over 20 Miles Long -- Fun and Games in Bedquilt Cave -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Guadalupe's -- Lechuguilla precision Survey -- Lilburn -- Mammoth Cave Restoration -- Soviets Visit Mammoth Cave -- Interview with Chris Howes -- The Underground Reader -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 3, August 1990

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Notes From Here and There -- Bulletin Board -- CRF Annual Meeting Tucson-November 2-3 -- Jake Elberfeld -- Non-Point Source Pollution At Mammoth Cave -- Mammoth Cave Region Biosphere Reserve -- Sixty Years At Carlsbad Caverns National Park -- Carlsbad Cavern Back Country In Big Blaze -- Mexican Freetail Bats Still Affected By DDT -- CRF Fellowship Awards, 1990 -- Powder Mill Creek Cave -- Expeditions -- Guadalupe's -- Lilburn -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- The Underground Reader -- Discovery at Powder Mill -- NSS Awards -- Nominations Sought -- Missouri Cave Inventory -- Lechuguilla-Deepest Cave in US -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 2, May 1990

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Notes From Here and There -- Bulletin Board -- MC Personnel Officer; Log Keeper -- CRF Logo Contest -- Thundering Turtles Need You -- Karstic Solution -- Back Bunkhouse on Flint Ridge Destroyed -- Cave Management Plan at Sequoia/Kings Canyon -- Carlsbad Cavern Receives Funding For Security Devices -- Hart County Landfill Dumped -- Loran-C Navigation -- A Remarkable Sedimentation Event at Lilburn Cave -- Missouri Lead Mining Leases Invalid -- Missouri Surpasses 5000 Caves -- De-Linting Carlsbad Cavern -- Expedition -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Lechuguilla Precision Survey Project -- Files Research Trips -- California -- Missouri -- Rigging The Bachli For Greater Control -- Making A Suunto Compass More Durable -- Naming Names At Mammoth Cave -- Caveology: A Geological Guide -- Calendar -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri -- Fitton Cave -- Mammoth Cave -- California

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 1, February 1990

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Carlsbad Cavern -- Guadalupe Currents -- Beth Estes Joins Florida Sinkhole Research Institute -- Readers Write -- Bulletin Board -- CRF Board Meets in ST. Louis -- International Exploration Fund -- Membership Awards -- Mammoth Cave Research Center Fund raising Drive -- Patty Jo Watson Honored For Twenty-Six Years of Archeology -- Mammoth Cave Survey On Computer -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri -- Lechuguilla Precision Survey Project -- Lilburn -- Fitton Cave Survey -- Lechuguilla Update -- Interview With Pat and Red Watson -- Mammoth Cave Data -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 4, November 1989

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Great Scott Cave -- Bulletin Board -- Proposed Great Basin Project -- Patty Jo Watson Receives NSS' Highest Honor -- Jim Quinlan Leaves Mammoth Cave National park -- Other CRF Awardees -- CRF Scholarship Helps NPS Staff Member -- Historic Features Featured on Map for MCNP -- Digging Crystals: Prehistoric Gypsum Mining In Mammoth Cave -- Lechuguilla -- Expeditions -- Guadalupe's -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Lilburn -- Wallace B. Elms -- New Superintendent At CCNP -- New Entrance To Mammoth Cave -- Carlsbad Cavern Restoration Project, 1989 -- Restoration Camp at Mammoth Cave National Park -- Leverage -- Cavequake -- The Underground Reader -- Problems Continue For MC Regional Sewer Plan -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 3, August 1989

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Further Donations -- Laser Printer Needed -- Readers Write -- Bulletin Board -- Address Corrections -- Carlsbad Restoration Patch -- Calling Flint Ridge -- Notes From the President -- New Superintendent At Carlsbad -- Karst Center Plans Move Ahead -- Recent Explorations In Hawkins/ Logsdon River -- 1811 'Quale Damaged Mammoth Cave Saltpeter Works -- Still Spring's Giant Cat -- Expeditions -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri -- Interview With John Tinsley -- 1989 CRF Karst Fellowships -- The Underground Reader -- Carlsbad Cavern Cartography -- New Developments At Lechuguilla -- Calendar -- mammoth Cave -- Annual Meeting

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 2, May 1989

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Floyd Collins Reburied -- Lava Beds National Monument New CRF Project is Off to a Good Start -- Calling Flint Ridge -- Bulletin Board -- Changing Homes -- Mammoth cave Restoration Camp -- CRF-MCNP Memo of Understanding -- CRF Councils Peace Corps Trainees -- Park Service Appointments -- Visits Up (Not Under) at Mammoth Cave -- Ron Kerbo To Tour Soviet Underground -- Kartchner Cavern Contract -- Lechuguilla Latest -- Out of Time -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Lilburn Hydrology -- Guadalupe's -- Kentucky Cave Shrimp Recovery Plan -- A Visit With Joe and Jewell Kulesza -- The Bachli Rappel And Belay Device -- More on Sketching To Scale -- Heard Underground -- Book Review -- Calendar -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 1, February 1989

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Mammoth Cave Tour Trail Maps -- Bulletin Board -- CRF Annual Meeting,1988 -- About The New President -- From the New President -- Dick Venters-New Guadalupe Area Manager -- Norm Pace Awarded AAAS Membership -- Mammoth Cave Map Update -- New Project Area-Lava Beds National Monument -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Missouri -- Guadalupe's -- Cave Radio Location -- Sketching To Scale -- Lighting Up Your Suunto -- Kentucky Cave Law -- Interview With Mel Park -- Lechuguilla Notes -- Editorial-Mining Missouri's Karstlands -- Grand Gulf Update -- Calendar -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 16, No. 4, November 1988

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Mihalic's Management Plans -- Lechuguilla Cave Video Project Needs Support -- Russian Speleologists Meet CRF -- Operation Raleigh -- Red Watson Receives NSS Highest Honor -- Other NSS Awards -- MCNP Management Plan -- Carlsbad Crickets -- Mammoth Microbes -- Conservative Caving -- Expeditions -- Lilburn -- Guadalupe's -- Missouri -- Mammoth Cave -- Mammoth Trivia -- Changing Attitudes: An Interview With Donald G. Davis -- Grand Gulf -- Partners In Parks -- Book Notes -- Lechuguilla's Mileage Surpasses Carlsbad -- What's Happening At Roppel -- Afterword -- Calendar -- Annual Meeting -- 1989 Karst Research Fellowships

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 16, No. 3, August 1988

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Carlsbad Cavern -- Spring Board Meeting -- Bulletin Board -- Roberta Swicegood -- Bulletin Board -- Guadalupe Mountains National Park Project -- Academy of Sciences Elects Patty Jo Watson -- Superintendent Smith Promoted -- Sarah Bishop Appointed To National Parks Commission -- 1988 CRF Karst Fellowship Awards -- CRF At Park Research Meeting -- Survey Calculation for (Almost) Everyone -- Carlsbad Preliminary Maps Near Completion -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Lilburn -- Guadalupe's -- Carlsbad Restoration -- White Snowballs -- China Expedition'88 -- Publication Due September -- Changing Attitudes: An Interview With Ron Kerbo -- Lechuguilla Now And Deepest In U.S. -- Deeper Yet? -- Book Notes -- Calendar -- Mammoth Cave Expeditions -- Annual Meeting

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 16, No. 2, May 1988

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: CRF China Cave Expedition A Success -- Bulletin Board -- Readers Write -- Carlsbad Cavern Restoration Camp, 1988 -- New Cavers -- Corrections -- Missouri Ozarks New CRF Project Area Mining Proposal Threatens Missouri Karstlands -- Changing Attitudes: An Interview With Rick Smith -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave Wilderness Status Proposed For Lechuguilla Cave -- Lechuguilla-The Discoveries Continue -- Book Notes -- The Real Floyd Collins' Home -- Calendar

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 16, No. 1, February 1988

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Readers write -- Lilburn Project Hosts Annual Meeting -- Carlsbad Is One Cavern -- Phantaspeleo '87 -- Survey Data Reduction -- Mammoth Cave -- Columbus Day -- Thanksgiving Expedition, November 26 -- 29 -- Lilburn -- Lechuguilla Extended to 7 Miles. -1207 FT -- Book Notes -- Interview With Roger McClure -- China Karst Conference -- More NSS Awards -- Calendar -- 1987 Contributors -- New MCNP superintendent -

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  Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 15, No. 4, November 1987

  Sue Hagan

  Contents: Drawings Found in Salts Cave -- Salts Cave Drawings -- In Memoriam Louise M. Robbins -- NSS Awards -- Cave and Karst Center -- The Mammoth Cave Nature Association -- Expeditions -- Mammoth Cave -- Guadalupe's -- Lilburn -- Bat Killers Caught -- Tony Waltham Interview -- Book Notes -- Cleaning Up Carlsbad -- What's In A Name -- Lechuguilla cave -- Deepest In New Mexico -- Huatla -- Depth Record Attempt to Be Filmed -- Calendar -- Bulletin Board