SLOAN's VALLEY RESEARCH & CONSERVATION PAGE

Sloan's Valley Conservation Task Force

This task force works to protect the ecology and educate the public concerning the 23.5 miles of the Sloan's Valley Cave system in Kentucky. We monitor the water quality and status of the biota throughout the cave system. We also have implemented an experimental research station to observe the behavioural interactions of various species of blind cave-adapted crayfish. There are a number of recent concerns that the task force is working on related to agricultural pollutants and run off from county landfills that affect the cave biology and cave dynamics.

Dr. Hiliary Lambert Hopper is the founder and director of the Sloan's Valley Conservation Task Force and all research is channeled through her. Contact: hlhopper@prodigy.net

If your interested and learning more about caving, you are welcome to attend the BLUEGRASS GROTTO MEETINGS (a very prestigious local caving group).

For more information see (hot linked):

http://www.webpub.com/jhagee/bgg.html

 

Go to the www site under construction on "The rescue of the cave crayfish" from the lowering water table.
See this page for move information about cave biological research at Univ. of KY (Jumhttp://web.as.uky.edu/Biology/faculty/cooper/default.htmp to)
About Kick 66:

< Peg and Hiliary.

Trying to stop the distruction of more caves

 

Some of the unique cave animals

  
  
  
 
  
 
 
 
 

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