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Number of Caves, Properties, Acres Managed, and Service Area

By Cave Conservancies and Institutional Members of the National Speleological Society

This webpage was last updated on 23 December 2008. 

Name of Conservancy

Number of Properties Owned or Managed

Number of

Acres Owned or Managed

Number Of Caves Owned or Managed

 

Miles of Cave Passage Owned or Managed

Type of

Service Area

Service area

Appalachian Cave Conservancy

Formerly known as  PerCCAMS

7

10.1

8

18.845

Regional

Appalachian area in

Southwest Virginia Eastern Tennessee

Butler Cave Conservation Society (BCCS)

5

150

9

40.68

One cave area

Bath and Highland Counties -Virginia

Carroll Cave Conservancy (CCC)

1

3

1

12

One cave

 

Cave Conservancy of Hawaii (CCH)

4

61

2

16

State

Hawaii

Karst Conservancy of Illinois (KCI)

1

3.1

1

.5

State

Illinois

Indiana Karst Conservancy (IKC)

9

141

12

18.1

State

Southern Indiana

Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy (MAKC)

7

4370.45

39

8.8

State

Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia

New Jersey Cave Conservancy (NJCC)

1

0

6

.3

State

New Jersey

Northeastern Cave Conservancy (NCC)

3

25

6

3.2

Multi State

New York. Others

Pennsylvania Cave Conservancy (PCC)

0

0

0

0

Multi

State

Pennsylvania, others

Rockcastle Karst Conservancy (RKC)

1

305

1

.75

One Cave

Central Kentucky

Texas Cave Conservancy (TEXCC)

41

220

130

5

State

Texas

Texas Cave Management Association (TCMA)

10

336.37

22

7?

State

Texas

West Virginia Cave Conservancy (WVCC)

9

30

9

42

State

West Virginia

(Virginia limited activity)

 Western Cave Conservancy  (WCC)

1

5

1

1

Multi State

California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, Utah

Cave Conservancy of the Virginias (CCV)

2

171

5

26.77

Multi

State

Virginia

West Virginia

National Speleological Society (NSS)

Cave Preserves

12

231.3

18

33.9

National

National

Institutional Cave Conservancies of the NSS – Past and Present

0

0

0

0

 

 

Michigan Karst Conservancy ** (MKC)

3

588

5

0.5

State

Michigan

Missouri Caves and Karst Conservancy (MCKC)

1

3

00

0

State

Missouri

Southeastern Cave Conservancy **(SCCI)

23

1173.87

53

0

Multi State

Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, others

Total

140

7817.19

328

225.05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

** Participates on the NSS Cave Conservancies Committee