BLM manages many intriguing caves, featuring otherworldly landforms and serving as critical groundwater conduits and habitat for a variety of creatures, including many species of bats. Learn about these weird, fragile ecosystems and the people who help BLM to explore, preserve, and protect them. BLM Caves & Karst Resources Specialist: Jump to Another Topic Jim Goodbar RESOURCES Caves BLM-Klamath Falls, Oregon "Environmental Assessment for the Salt Caves Management Plan": evaluation of management plan impacts on Salt Caves in the Klamath Falls Area http://www.or.blm.gov:80/Lakeview/kfra/Planning/2002_EnvironmentalAssessments/SaltCaves_EA_03_06_02.pdf BLM- Nevada; Spirit Cave Evidence of prehistoric habitation http://www.nv.blm.gov/cultural/spirit_cave_man/spirit_cave_man2.htm BLM-Carson City, Nevada Hidden Cave--description and tour information http://www.nv.blm.gov/carson/Recreation/2_hidden_cave.htm BLM -Elko, Nevada Mineral Hill Cave: description and virtual tour http://www.nv.blm.gov/Elko/cultural/mineralhill.htm Prehistoric Central Nevada: An Environmental Education Field Trip to Toquima Cave http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/2001/nv/index.html BLM-New Mexico home page Overview of cave management activities http://www.nm.blm.gov/www/what_we_do.html#Caves "BLM Resource Explorers" series Profile of Jim Goodbar, Cave Specialist: with BLM-Carlsbad, New Mexico, Office http://www.blm.gov/education/expert/3/index.html Bats BLM-Arizona; "Managing Deadwood for Bat Habitat": study of bat use of standing dead trees as habitat http://www.blm.gov:80/nstc/resourcenotes/rn17.html http://www.blm.gov:80/nstc/resourcenotes/respdf/RN17.pdf BLM-Arizona Strip "Bats of the Arizona Strip": description of species and key use areas http://www.az.blm.gov:80/asfo/Wildlife/Bats.htm BLM-Idaho Assessment of inactive mines as bat habitat in northern Idaho http://www.id.blm.gov:80/techbuls/01_05/entiredoc.pdf BLM-Winnemucca, Nevada "Changes Have Bats Flying in Northern Nevada": a study of bats' use of abandoned mines as habitat http://www.nv.blm.gov:80/Winnemucca/non_renewable/bats/default.htm BLM-Coos Bay, Oregon Study of how bats use bridges as roosts in southwestern Oregon http://www.or.blm.gov:80/coosbay/Bat/bci_rprt.htm BLM-Utah "Monitoring the Effectiveness of Bat-Comaptible Mine Gates": study of the effectiveness of bat compatible gates at abandoned mines in southwestern Utah http://www.blm.gov:80/nstc/resourcenotes/rn18.html and http://www.blm.gov:80/nstc/resourcenotes/respdf/RN18.pdf BLM-Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah "Status of Bats in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument": abstract on bat species within the Monument http://www.ut.blm.gov:80/monument/Science_and_Research/Science_Symposium/biology05.html

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