Karst
Publishing Partners
AGI gratefully acknowledges the following organizations’ support for the Living with Karst booklet and poster. To order, contact AGI at www.agiweb.org or (703) 379-2480.
National Speleological
Society
(with support from the National
Speleological Foundation and the
Richmond Area Speleological Society)
American Cave Conservation
Association
(with support from the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation and a Section 319(h)
Nonpoint Source Grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency through the Kentucky Division of Water)
Illinois Basin Consortium
(Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky State
Geological Surveys)
National Park Service
U.S. Bureau of Land
Management
USDA Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey
AGI Environmental Awareness Series, 4
A
Fragile
Foundation
George Veni
Harvey DuChene
With a Foreword by
Philip E. LaMoreaux
Nicholas C. Crawford
Christopher G. Groves
George N. Huppert
Ernst H. Kastning
Rick Olson
Betty J. Wheeler
American Geological Institute in cooperation with
National Speleological Society and American Cave Conservation Association, Illinois Basin Consortium
National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
George Veni is a hydrogeologist and the owner of George Veni and Associates in San Antonio, TX.
He has studied karst internationally for 25 years, serves as an adjunct professor at The University of
Texas and Western Kentucky University, and chairs the Texas Speleological Survey and the National
Speleological Society’s Section of Cave Geology and Geography
Harvey R. DuChene, a petroleum geologist residing in Englewood, CO, has been studying caves throughout the world for over 35 years; he is particularly interested in sulfuric acid karst systems such as the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and west Texas.
AGI gratefully acknowledges the following organizations’ support for the Living with Karst booklet and poster. To order, contact AGI at www.agiweb.org or (703) 379-2480.
National Speleological
Society
(with support from the National
Speleological Foundation and the
Richmond Area Speleological Society)
American Cave Conservation
Association
(with support from the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation and a Section 319(h)
Nonpoint Source Grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency through the Kentucky Division of Water)
Illinois Basin Consortium
(Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky State
Geological Surveys)
National Park Service
U.S. Bureau of Land
Management
USDA Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey
AGI Environmental Awareness Series, 4
A
Fragile
Foundation
George Veni
Harvey DuChene
With a Foreword by
Philip E. LaMoreaux
Nicholas C. Crawford
Christopher G. Groves
George N. Huppert
Ernst H. Kastning
Rick Olson
Betty J. Wheeler
American Geological Institute in cooperation with
National Speleological Society and American Cave Conservation Association, Illinois Basin Consortium
National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
George Veni is a hydrogeologist and the owner of George Veni and Associates in San Antonio, TX.
He has studied karst internationally for 25 years, serves as an adjunct professor at The University of
Texas and Western Kentucky University, and chairs the Texas Speleological Survey and the National
Speleological Society’s Section of Cave Geology and Geography
Harvey R. DuChene, a petroleum geologist residing in Englewood, CO, has been studying caves throughout the world for over 35 years; he is particularly interested in sulfuric acid karst systems such as the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and west Texas.
References: Huppert, George N. 1995. “Legal Protection for Caves.” Environmental Geology, Vol LaMoreaux, P E., W. J. Powell and H. E. LeGrand. 1997. “Environmental and Legal .