Organizational and Funding Structure -  Cave Conservancy Home

NSS Cave Conservancies and Institutional Member Cave Conservancies of the National Speleological Society

NSS Cave Conservancies Committee was established on 2 November 1996

This webpage was last updated on 3 March 2008. 

 

This table is an ongoing project; please help update this information by sending information to: wilsonjml@msn.com

Name of Conservancy

 

 

 

 

 

NSS Cave Conservancies

Management by Executive Committee

with separate sessions from Board

Board

Management

 

Paid Executive

Or Staff

 

Individual

Membership

and Number of Members

Organizational Membership and Number of Organizational Members

Dues

Other

Significant

Funding

Classification using the SICLEO

System method of cave management*

Public Education

Appalachian Cave Conservancy (ACC) Formerly PerCAMS

Yes

4

Yes

12

No

Yes

100

Yes

4

Yes

Dues, Gifts

Cash in Kind

Contract

Some

Butler Cave Conservation Society (BCCS)

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

45

No

Yes

Life members

Major gifts

Own

Some

Cave Conservancy of the Virginias (CCV)

 

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Gaming

Own

 

Carroll Cave Conservancy (CCC)

 

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

 

Own

 

Greater Cincinnati Grotto - Great Saltpetre Cave Preserve

Ended Conservancy Status 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cave Conservancy of Hawaii (CCH)

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

70

Yes

Yes

$15 to $100

Loans, Grants

Donations

Fee for Services

Informal Management,

Contract,

Conservation Easement,

Own

Yes

Karst Conservancy of Illinois (KCI)

No

Yes

No

Yes

50

Yes

Yes

Loans

Grants

Own

Yes

Indiana Karst Conservancy (IKC)

No

Yes

15 members

No

Yes

182

Yes

11

Yes

$15

Donations, Grants

Fee for Services

Informal, Lease, Conservation easement,

Own

Yes

Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy (MAKC)

No

Yes

11 members

No

Yes

260

Yes

19

Yes

Life members

sustaining

Lease

Yes

New Jersey Cave Conservancy

No

Yes

Representatives from Grotto 8-12

No

No

Representatives from Grottos

No

None

Contract

No

Northeastern Cave Conservancy

Yes

4

Yes

9

No

Yes

160

Yes

10

Yes

$15

Donations

Events, raffles

Own

Contract

Yes

Pennsylvania Cave Conservancy (PCC)

 

Yes

Representatives from Grottos

No

No

Representatives from Grottos

No

 

 

 

Rockcastle Karst Conservancy (RKC)

No

Yes

No

Yes

129

Yes

6

Yes

 

Own

Yes

Texas Cave Conservancy (TCC)

No

Yes

4

Yes

Yes

120

Yes

0

Yes

indefinite

Fee for Services

Contract

Lease

Some

Texas Cave Management Association (TCMA)

No

Yes

9

No

Yes

114

Yes

7

Yes

$15

other amt.

Fee for karst management services

Informal

Contract

Own

Yes

West Virginia Cave Conservancy (WVCC)

 

Yes

No

Yes

 

Yes

 

 

 

 Western Cave Conservancy  (WCC)

 

Yes

No

Yes

 

No

Donations

Own

Yes

NSS Institutional Cave Conservancies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Karst Conservancy

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

90

Yes

3

Yes

 

Own

 

Missouri Cave and Karst Conservancy

 

Yes

 

 

 

Yes

 

 

 

Southeastern Cave Conservancy

 

Yes

 

 

 

Yes

Monthly dues

Major gifts

Own

 

 

*SICLEO System

The following is the sequence of cave protection levels that I proposed at the Cave Conservancies Session at the 2001 NSS Convention.  See the program abstract on the events page of this site.  The goal is to have a sequence of cave protection strategies that could be applied as appropriate to each potential cave management situation.  This proposal lists the six levels one should consider in order when deciding to protect, manage, and conserve a cave.  They are:

 

SICLEO System

1.         Enlightened Self management by owner

2.         Informal management arrangement

3.         Contract

4.         Lease

5.         Conservation Easement

6,         Own