Save your copies of the NSS MEMBERS MANUAL.
In a mind-boggling move that eliminates the second most tangible or most valuable NSS benefit to members (behind copies of the NSS NEWS), the NSS BOG voted 12-4 to terminate the Members Manual. Members lost a handy link to the nationwide caving community. Speleo-DIGEST is gone. Hard copies of the JOURNAL OF CAVE AND KARST STUDIES are gone. Mailed notices that dues payments are required are gone. Now, MEMBERS MANUAL is gone. Congratulations to the BOG on its misguided efforts to save money and paper while suffocating communications amongst the Society’s far-flung membership.