MAMMOTH CAVE Master Plan Preliminary Draft

Team Members

Chairman:
Charles S. Marshall, Associate Director, Southeast Region, National Park Service, Richmond, Virginia

Vice-Chairman:
W. Drew Chick, Jr., Park Planner, Eastern Service Center, National Park Service, Washington, D. C.

Members:
John A. Aubuchon, Superintendent, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Robert H. Bendt, Superintendent, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
*Thomas C. Barr, Jr., Professor of Zoology, University of Kentucky, Lexington
William B. Holton, Retired Scientist, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Don Lockwood, Park Planner, National and Historic Parks Branch, Ottawa, Canada
Bassett Maguire, Jr., Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin

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*Dr. Barr prefers a Mammoth Cave Ridge site for peripheral development of additional facilities to meet the increased visitation, with retention of existing facilities (without further expansion) in the vicinity of the Historic Entrance. He believes that peripheral development in the Frozen Niagara area would be (a) far less destructive of park resources and (b) far less costly in terms of required Congressional appropriation of public funds. He feels that the Big Woods area, Woolsey Valley, and extensive portions of the Flint Ridge cave system meet the criteria for wilderness designation, and that the natural flow of water from all of the springs on Flint Ridge should be restored at the earliest possible opportunity.

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Staff

The following members of the professional staff of the National Park Service's Eastern Service Center assisted Mr. Chick in developing the concepts in this master plan, writing the report, and preparing the graphics:

Consultants

National Park Service

Park Concessioners

Geological Survey

Corps of Engineers

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation

Bureau of Public Roads

Commonwealth of Kentucky*

Office of the Governor
Robert Metrey, Administrative Assistant, Frankfort

Department of Highways
Calvin G. Grayson, Civil Engineer, Frankfort

Department of Parks
Robert E. Gable, Commissioner, Frankfort

Department of Natural Resources
James S. Shropshire, Commissioner, Frankfort

Department of Public Information
W. L. Knight, Director, Travel Division, Frankfort
W. Ray Scott, Assistant to Director, Travel Division, Frankfort

Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Fiscal Court Judges
John H. Blanton, Edmonson County, Brownsville
James E. Gillenwater, Barren County, Glasgow

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*Commonwealth officials were consulted in July, 1968.

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The Wilderness Society
Ernest M. Dickerman, Wilderness Consultant

Cave Research Foundation
Joseph K. Davidson, President
W. P. Bishop, Director
Roger Brucker, Director

National Speleological Society
Victor A. Schmidt, Chariman, Committee on Conservation

National Parks Association
Walter S. Boardman, Consultant in Conservation