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Foreword |
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Introduction |
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Project summary |
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Project requirements |
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Excluded sites |
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Project deliverables |
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Personnel |
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Methods |
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2.1 |
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Georeferencing |
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Datum transformations |
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Species identification |
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Determination of hydrological activity |
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Field techniques |
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Results - Caves by District |
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Windsor
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Bad Hole |
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Contra Sheep Pen Hole |
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Devil's Staircase |
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Flood Exit Cave |
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Flood Rising |
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Fontabelle Rising |
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Hessie's Hole** |
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Home Away From Home Cave** |
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Long Mile Cave |
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Pantrepant Cave |
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Peru Mountain Holes |
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Quaw's Pond Sink |
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Ruined Ground Cave |
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Sheep Pen Cave |
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Spring Cave |
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Windsor Great Cave |
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The Northeast
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Agony Hole |
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Barbecue Bottom Hole-1 |
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Barbecue Bottom Hole-2 |
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Campbells Cave |
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East Hole |
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Kinloss Shelter |
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Mirk Pit |
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Montieth Cave |
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Ramgoat Cave |
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South Hole |
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Rock Spring
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3.3 |
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Burnt Hill Caves |
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Cane Patch Sink |
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Carambie Cave |
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Comb Cave |
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Crayfish Cave |
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Far Enough Cave |
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Farmyard Cave |
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Good Hope Cave |
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Good Hope One Cave |
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Good Hope Two Cave |
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Greater Swanga Shelter** |
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Harties Cave-1 |
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Harties Cave-2 |
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Iron Maiden Cave |
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Mouth Maze |
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Mouth River Sink |
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Pool Cave |
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Printed Circuit Cave |
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Swanga Cave, [aka Banga Cave] |
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Too Far Stream Cave |
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Troy
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Anancy Hole** |
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Booth Camp Spring |
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Dalby's Stream Cave |
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Kolan Bush Sinkhole |
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Tyre Stream Cave** |
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Tyre Sump Cave |
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White Cave |
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Wilson's Run Cave |
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Balaclava
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Black River Head |
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Bluefields Sink |
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Coffee River Cave |
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Golding River Cave |
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Hector's River Sink-3 |
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Mexico Cave |
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Raheen Sink-1 |
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Wallingford Collapse Cave |
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Wallingford Main Cave |
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Wallingford River Cave |
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Wallingford Roadside Cave |
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Wallingford Sinkhole-1 |
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Wallingford Sinkhole-2 |
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Wallingford Tunnel Cave |
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Thornton
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Appleton Tower Maze |
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Falling Cave |
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Nanny Cave |
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Pennhouse Shelter-1** |
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Pennhouse Shelter-2** |
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Pennhouse Shelter-3** |
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Penthouse Cave |
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River Maiden Cave |
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Welsch Ratbat Cave |
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Quick Step
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Adam's Third Pit |
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August 23 Pit |
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Back-of-Hut Pit-1 |
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Back-of-Hut Pit-2 |
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Belmore Castle Pit-1 |
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Belmore Castle Pit-2 |
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Bonafide Cave |
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Canaan Spring |
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Cowtrap Pit |
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Crescent Pit |
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Ed's Lost Rack Pit |
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Ellen's Mourning Pit |
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Glade Fissure Cave |
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Gremlin Cave |
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Hole-in-the-wall Pit |
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Innerwell Fissure Cave |
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Jabbering Crow Pit |
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Killer Corkscrew Pit |
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Linda's Minipit |
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Marta Tick Cave |
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Minocal's Glory Hole |
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Olive Piece Property Caves |
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Red Top Pit |
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Road-side Pit |
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Robert Ming's Pit |
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Rolling Rock Pit |
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Sawmill Cave |
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Sawmill Collapse |
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Stephenson Cave |
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Tamarind Pond Hole |
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The Tomhole |
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Undernose Cave |
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Wandering Well |
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Wayne's Pit |
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The Southwest
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Adam's Cave |
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Behind the Wall Cave |
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Big Well Cave |
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Cawley Well |
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Cedar Spring Cave |
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Cook's Bottom Sink |
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Dunco Spring Cave |
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Johnny Tavern Spring |
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Martel Spring |
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Martel Spring Cave |
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Retirement Cave |
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Robber Cave |
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Saucy River Cave |
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Shell Cave |
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Sherlock's Pit |
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Still Waters Cave |
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Vauxhall Cave |
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Warmy Tom Hole |
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Wondrous Cave |
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The Northwest
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Barracks Cave |
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Clear River Cave** |
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Dead Baby Sinkhole** |
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Duppy Cave |
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Fitzie's Fissures 1-3** |
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Gun Hill |
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Hope River Glade Caves |
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Liefs Sink |
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Prosper Rock |
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Salmon Cave |
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Springvale South Cave |
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Vaughansfield Cave |
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Young Gully Cave |
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Young's Cave |
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Conclusions |
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Current conditions |
4.1 |
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Degradation |
4.2 |
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Conservation priorities |
4.3 |
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Recommendations |
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Monitoring |
4.5 |
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Appendix A - Database of PiP Project sites |
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5.1 |
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Appendix B - Arcview project files |
6.1 |
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Appendix C - Archaeology of the Cockpit Country |
7.1 |
Foreword
The participation of the
Jamaican Caves Organisation in the Parks in Peril Project began in late 2001.
Dr. S. Koenig, of the Windsor Research Centre, invited R. S. Stewart to assist
in preparatory work on the caves component of the PiP Project, then in its
nascent stages. Although there was not yet any actual funding for the caves
component, a team that was made up of Susan Koenig, Stefan Stewart, and Martel
Taylor carried out fieldwork in February of 2002 that would begin the process
of establishing a methodology for the systematic assessment of Jamaican caves.
In June 2002, funding
supplied by the sponsor of the project, The Nature Conservancy, enabled further
fieldwork, this time under the guidance of G. O. Graening of The Nature
Conservancy - USA. With the assistance of Koenig, Stewart, and Taylor, a number
of caves were visited, and good progress was made.
In August of 2002, with the
intention of assembling a group of volunteers who could carry out speleological
research in Jamaica, with or without funding, the Jamaican Caves Organisation
was founded by Stewart. The initial membership of the JCO consisted of a small
group of people who had been exploring the caves of the island with Stewart
since the early 1990's, but new members were soon added. One of the more
important of the early additions to the team was Ivor Conolley.
In the autumn of 2002, using methods established earlier in the year, the JCO began a systematic