Start Date
2013
Abstract
Welcome Cave and Karst Managers, Explorers, and Scientists!
On behalf of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Forest Service, and the Organizing Committee, we’re delighted to be your hosts for the 20th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium (NCKMS).
Our theme this year, A Changing Climate, reflects the many changes currently affecting cave and karst management. But change has always been a constant. This conference series began in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, as the National Cave Management Symposium. There was considerable diversity in that meeting’s topics. All were based in the USA, but most focused on managing people in show and non-show caves, especially on public lands. This theme dominated the next several symposia. By 1997, more than half of the papers focused on the greater landscapes in which caves occur and the conference name changed to include “karst.”
Program with Abstracts
Welcome Cave and Karst Managers, Explorers, and Scientists!
On behalf of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Forest Service, and the Organizing Committee, we’re delighted to be your hosts for the 20th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium (NCKMS).
Our theme this year, A Changing Climate, reflects the many changes currently affecting cave and karst management. But change has always been a constant. This conference series began in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, as the National Cave Management Symposium. There was considerable diversity in that meeting’s topics. All were based in the USA, but most focused on managing people in show and non-show caves, especially on public lands. This theme dominated the next several symposia. By 1997, more than half of the papers focused on the greater landscapes in which caves occur and the conference name changed to include “karst.”
