Program Goals
	What We Do
	How You Can Help
	What Cave Owners Can Do
	Why Study & Protect Caves?
	If You Go Caving...

Program Goals

• To discover and protect the diversity of life underground.
• To investigate ecosystem processes of subterranean habitats.
• To preserve cave and groundwater resources for future generations.
• Promote lower-impact methods of recreational caving.

• Bioenventory underground and aquatic habitats.
• Inventory karst features.
• Survey caves and define recharge basins.
• Monitor environmental quality.
• Monitor cave populations.
• Create educational outreach tools and programs.

• Report sightings of cave life to us.
• Adopt a cave or join a Stream Team
• Join our volunteer cave team.
• Make a donation to the Project.
• Join the National Speleological Society

• Participate in this project.
• Join the American Cave Conservation Association (call 270-786-1466)
• Keep trash out of sinkholes.
• Practice best management practices in agriculture

• 97% of the world's fresh water lies underground.
• Cave animals are indicators of water quality.
• Cave-adapted animals are some of the rarest animals on earth.
• Cave animals are important to science, including medical research.
• Many caves are becoming polluted, threatening natural resources and cave life.

If You Go Caving...

• Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.
• Never cave alone and always tell someone where you're caving and when you're out.
• Never cave during or after rain.
• For each caver, bring at least 3 light sources, spare food and water, warm clothes, and good boots and gloves.