Local cavers to talk about their work in Park

The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park will host a free brown-bag lecture at the Community Building in the Park Headquarters area on Tuesday, Nov. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. The Bigfork High School Cave Club will talk about their five years of cave research in the park.  

The Bigfork High School Cave Club was created in 2005 to provide high school students with opportunities to participate in recreational activities through cave exploration and work with local land managing agencies, such as the National Park Service and the Forest Service, to restore and conserve fragile cave resources.  

In 2010, the club was awarded the President's Environmental Youth Award for their work in the conservation of caves in Glacier National Park. They were invited to present their work at the opening ceremony of the International GIS Users Conference in San Diego, Calif.

Recently, the club completed monitoring for 11 caves in Grand Canyon National Park. In October, club members presented their work at the National Cave Management Symposium in Utah.

For more information, visit online at www.nps.gov/glac/naturescience/ccrlc or call 888-5827.