When cavers assisted researchers, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission at Barton Cave in March, we had an inkling that the cave might be reopened in 2011. However, much to our surprise, Greg Turner of the PGC told us that there had been a collapse in the Pittsburgh Passage […]
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Greg Turner of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Aura Stauffer of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources contacted me and asked me to get a group of cavers together to go into Barton Cave in Fayette County during a bat survey, the only time the cave would potentially be open to us prior to […]
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Lemon Hole is not a preserve of the MAKC. It is on the Forbes State Forest and is owned by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry. However, MAKC helps the BOF look after the cave, especially when it comes time to close the cave at the end of September. Volunteers are always needed to go caving […]
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Coon Cave is not a preserve of the MAKC. It is on the Forbes State Forest and is owned by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry. However, MAKC helps the BOF look after the cave, especially when it comes time to close the cave at the end of September. Volunteers are always needed to go caving […]
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Barton Cave is not a preserve of the MAKC. It is on the Forbes State Forest and is owned by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry. However, MAKC helps the BOF look after the cave, especially when it comes time to close the cave at the end of September. Volunteers are always needed to go caving […]
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