Land and caves and bats oh my!...
Posted: Feb 14, 2016 4:03 am
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Just joined this forum. Guess my #1 reason to join at this point is to lurk and learn. (Lurk is good when one's a rookie, methinks... or, better yet, and aspiring rookie... )
#2 reason: I own land (Randolph County, WV,) and there are at least two caves there, one of them being Gooseberry Cave, the other one I believe goes by the name of Blue Monday Cave (but I could be wrong) and I am looking forward to collect as much information as possible on those caves (for starters, I need to locate them! Anyone, please feel free to post or PM me if you have any info, coordinates, etc. --- and many thanks in advance.)
Gooseberry Cave is the most important one, and a know hibernacula for the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis,) and so I have been searching the internet for info for a while, but not much shows up...
I have found very few references to Gooseberry Cave:
- http://www.caverbob.com/state.htm
- http://www.cavediggers.com/ has a link to a short video on Youtube, but no other information, and my attempts to contact the person who posted the video have not been successful so far.
I hope to be able to locate those caves, maybe find others, survey them, etc.
I have also emailed WVACS to try to find out how WVACS decides on what caves to study/survey, etc.
Anyway, sorry if this feels disjointed, but as said, I am a rookie and this is the start of a journey.
That's all for now!
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Just joined this forum. Guess my #1 reason to join at this point is to lurk and learn. (Lurk is good when one's a rookie, methinks... or, better yet, and aspiring rookie... )
#2 reason: I own land (Randolph County, WV,) and there are at least two caves there, one of them being Gooseberry Cave, the other one I believe goes by the name of Blue Monday Cave (but I could be wrong) and I am looking forward to collect as much information as possible on those caves (for starters, I need to locate them! Anyone, please feel free to post or PM me if you have any info, coordinates, etc. --- and many thanks in advance.)
Gooseberry Cave is the most important one, and a know hibernacula for the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis,) and so I have been searching the internet for info for a while, but not much shows up...
I have found very few references to Gooseberry Cave:
- http://www.caverbob.com/state.htm
- http://www.cavediggers.com/ has a link to a short video on Youtube, but no other information, and my attempts to contact the person who posted the video have not been successful so far.
I hope to be able to locate those caves, maybe find others, survey them, etc.
I have also emailed WVACS to try to find out how WVACS decides on what caves to study/survey, etc.
Anyway, sorry if this feels disjointed, but as said, I am a rookie and this is the start of a journey.
That's all for now!