Funding for visitor services is used for interpretive park rangers to guide visitors through the caves and explain the natural and cultural resources, and to provide evening interpretive programs. The visitor protection and safety program provides law enforcement and emergency medical services. Resource management efforts will continue work on understanding and reducing human impacts throughout the cave in order to assure preservation of the delicate cave environment. Efforts to restore disturbed land and control invasive plants along the cave trail and in the Swinging Bridge picnic area will continue. Most maintenance operations in the monument are routine and include maintenance of grounds, the potable water supply system, waste water disposal systems, buildings, parking areas, and hazard tree removal.
Administration supports achievement of the program and project goals already listed.
Administration includes the superintendent and administrative support staff, management of budget, staffing, payroll, contracting, purchasing of supplies and materials, travel, utilities, computer and office equipment, capital equipment, and more. In addition to administrative support services, the superintendent's office oversees general park management and directs community relations and partnerships. No fee revenue is programmed for administration. All images may be copyrighted by the stories source. While we make every effort to ensure that the content of our stories is accurate and useful, we make no warrantees to its content.