Cave Dig Breakthrough at Grand Canyon Caverns
July 16, 2015 / Arizona, United States, North America
A 10-year-long cave dig in Arizona’s Grand Canyon Caverns has hit pay dirt after cavers broke through into a new room.
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Watch: Drone Captures Cavers Dropping Alabama’s Neversink Pit
July 16, 2015 / Alabama, United States, North AmericaGet a new perspective of Alabama’s Neversink Pit as a drone captures incredible footage of cavers rappelling into the 49 meter (162 foot) deep abyss.
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Researchers Return to Missouri’s Devil’s Well
July 9, 2015 / Missouri, United States, North AmericaFor the first time in over 30 years, cavers with the Cave Research Foundation entered Missouri’s Devil’s Well, home to the largest known underground lake in the state.
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Cavers Work to Restore New Mexico’s Sandia Man Cave
July 9, 2015 / New Mexico, United States, North AmericaLearn about the Sandia Grotto’s efforts to restore New Mexico’s graffiti filled Sandia Man Cave, home to petroglyphs and evidence of mammoths.
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Montana’s Pictograph Cave Reopens After Lengthy Repairs
July 8, 2015 / Montana, United States, North AmericaSix months after a major rock slide closed public access to the namesake cave at Montana’s Pictograph Cave State Park, it has reopened.
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Video: 2015 UBMS Biospeleology Summer Program
July 8, 2015 / Arkansas, United States, North AmericaCheck out the latest group of a high school students to survive Lyon College’s Upward Bound Math & Science biospeleology summer program.
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Washington Ice Cave Collapse Claims Life, Injures Others
July 7, 2015 / Washington, United States, North AmericaThe collapse of a popular ice cave in northwest Washington has claimed the life of one person and injured four others.
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Bear Spray Incident Temporarily Closes Timpanogos Cave
July 3, 2015 / Utah, United States, North AmericaUtah’s Timpanogos Cave National Monument was closed earlier this week after a visitor inadvertently set off bear spray while on a tour of the cavern.
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Video: West Virginia’s Cheat Canyon 10 Year Retrospective
July 3, 2015 / West Virginia, United States, North AmericaA new video retrospective highlights the project caving in the Cheat Canyon in the Monongalia and Preston Counties of West Virginia from 2004 to 2014.
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USFWS Awards Grants for Work on White-Nose Syndrome
July 2, 2015 / United States, North AmericaThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has just announced grant awards totaling just under $1 million to 35 states and the District of Columbia for white-nose syndrome (WNS) related projects.
