Schedule of Events

Thursday April 15
Noon---Thursday’s trips begin to depart for various caves. See info posted at hotel.
4:00 - 8:00 P.M.--- Registration at the Brier Inn.
8:00 - 11:00 P.M.--- Social (in the Friars Hill Room).

Friday April 16
(All daytime sessions are in the River Oak Room, upstairs in the Brier Inn).
8:30 A.M,--- Welcome: Jeff Bray, President of the West Virginia Cave Conservancy.

8:40 A.M.---Introduction of Conservancies. Five minutes from each conservancy to introduce the organizations.

10:40 - 11:00 A.M.---Break

11:00 A.M.---Session 1: Protecting Special Places with Conservation Easements
Beth Wheatley, The Nature Conservancy-West Virginia

12:00-1:00 P.M.---Lunch

1:00 P.M.---Session 2: The Whys and Hows of Management Plans
Thom Engel, Past NSS Caves Acquisition Chairman

2:00 P.M.---Session 3: Insurance: Who needs it?
Robert Addis, President of the Northeastern Cave Conservancy

3:00 - 3:20 P.M.---Afternoon Break

3:20 P.M.---Session 4: Creative Partnerships for Karst Protection ­ How To
Kriste Lindberg, Indiana Karst Conservancy Director and Chair of the IKC Education and Outreach Committee

8:00 P.M.---Discussion Session 1 (Friars Hill Room): A formatted open forum where the audience offers topics of discussion which are listed and then worked through. Key points are then listed as discussion proceeds so a summary of the meeting can be reprinted.

Saturday April 17

8:15 A.M.---Session 5: Managed Access to Conservancy Caves and Lands
Emily Davis, Past manager and present access coordinator for the Northeast Cave Conservancy and Northeast National Speleological Society properties.

8:45 A.M.---Session 6: Managing and Protecting Biological Resources: Bats, Bugs, and Ferns, David Culver, Professor of Biology at American University and an associate of the Karst Waters Institute.

9:45 - 10:00 A.M.---Morning Break

10:00 A.M.---Session 7: The Land Trust Alliance Perspective
Rane Curl, Past president of both the National Speleological Society and The Michigan Karst Conservancy.

11:00 A.M.---Begin Paper sessions---"The Value of Delineating Recharge Areas for Critical Caves: A Case History from Tumbling Creek Cave, Missourri."
Tom Aley, Ozark Underground Laboratory, Inc.

11:30 A.M.---"How to Obtain an NSS Grant to Help Purchase Cave or Karst Land"
Philip Moss, NSS Cave and Karst Acquisition Chair.

12:00 -1:00 P.M.---Lunch

1:00 P.M.---"Deferred Giving for Conservation". Ted Kayes, Treasurer, Virginia Karstlands.

1:30 P.M.---"The John Guilday Cave Preserve: Twenty years later". Frederick Grady, David R. West, and Robert B. Hoke.

2:00 P.M.--- “Restoration/Conservation Practices Of the Carroll Cave System, Camden Co., MO” Edgar Simmons, Carroll Cave Conservancy.

2:30 P.M.---“Searching for Bits of History” Bob Handley, WVCC.

3:00 - 3:20 P.M.---Afternoon Break

3:20 P.M.--- Meeting of the National Speleological Society Cave Conservancies
Committee. John Wilson.

8:00 P.M. Discussion Session 2 (Friars Hill Room).

Sunday, April 18

Informal cave trips will be offered to local caves. See information provided at hotel.

Special thanks goes out to all the presenters, and the following for their help in planning and funding various portions of this forum: Speleobooks, Maxwelton GeoSolutions, Ltd., Charlie and Ruth Williams, and Emily Davis.