Cave worth restoring: scientist

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Cave worth restoring: scientist

Postby Wayne Harrison » Nov 29, 2006 3:19 pm

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Stalactites hang from the Skirt Mountain cave.
A caving expert says B.C. is behind other
jurisdictions that have cave preservation laws.



By Edward Hill
Goldstream News Gazette
Langford,British Columbia,Canada
Nov 29 2006

It was damp, dark and had crickets, but to speleologist Paul Griffiths the now-infamous cave on Skirt Mountain is a thing of beauty.

The limestone cavern held short stalactites, was coated in calcite “moon milkâ€
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