(includes Restoration Workshop, Conservation Session, & Section Meeting)
Coordinated by Val Hildreth-Werker, George Huppert, & Jim Werker
From prevention of cave damage to formation repair, presenters will seek caver interaction as they offer new research on low-impact strategies. Proven techniques will be discussed. Speleothem repair and restoration workshops will be conducted. Topics will include trail definition, preserving microbes, addressing urban pollutants, formation repair, cave-safe graffiti removal, construction debris removal, conservation-wise exploration and survey, new techniques in formation cleaning, inventory tools, impact mapping, and conservation ethics.
Thursday, August 6
| Time | Paper Title | Presentor |
| 8:30 | Eeek!! I Killed a Microbe: Confessions of a Cave Explorer | Diana E. Northup |
| 9:00 | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Microbial Life in Caves | Penelope J. Boston |
| 9:30 | Cave Softly, Restore Gently, and Don’t Kill the Microbes? How Do We Do THAT? | Val Hildreth-Werker & Jim C. Werker |
| 10:00 | The Writing is on the Wall: So How Do We Get It Off? | Jim Goodbar |
| 10:30 | Removing Artificial Fill from Developed Caves | Rodney D. Horrocks |
| 11:00 | Impact Mapping: Technique for Impact Inventory | Jerry Trout |
| 11:30 | Formation Repair: Cave-safe Materials and Techniques | Jim C. Werker & Val Hildreth-Werker |
| 12:00 to 1:30 | Conservation Management Section Luncheon and Meeting | Conducted by Robert R. Stitt |
| 1:30 | 1998 US Conservation Overview | Dave Jagnow |
| 1:50 | Cave Conservation and Management on the World Wide Web | Robert R. Stitt |
| 2:15 | Karst Hydrology in Cave Protection and Restoration | George Veni |
| 2:45 | Zen and the Basics of Exploration & Survey: Seeing the Cave As It Is | Patricia E. Seiser |
| 3:15 | Problems With the FCRPA in Utah and Nevada | Dale Green |
| 3:40 | New Trails & Lights in Cathedral Caverns | Bill Varnedoe |
| 4:00 | Human Impact on Subterranean Pools | Rose Galbraith |
| 4:20 | A Regional Perspective on Karst Management: Current Regulations in the Edwards Zone of Texas | Andy Grubb |
| 4:40 | Other presentations |