Water pollution may poison streams, thereby killing many other organisms. Help enforce the law by reporting any and all persons in violation of the law to the cave owner or the nearest law enforcement authority. Code of Virginia 10-150.11 et seq. Study the possibility of a state cave recreation plan, and Study how cave data might be stored through electronic data processing so as to be readily available to state agencies with a need for such information. The Virginia Cave Board is composed of twelve voting members including the Director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and eleven citizens of Virginia appointed by the Governor.
Appointed members are unpaid volunteers who serve four-year staggered terms.
Past Board members have included a commercial cave owner, archaeologist, biologist, lawyer, and geologist. All the Board members are dedicated to the conservation of Virginia's many caves, located primarily west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We want to help with projects which impact caves or karst areas. These could be water pollution problems involving underground drainage, educational units in science, wilderness experience programs, emergency rescue service, protection of endangered or rare species, highway construction, quarry development, location of oil and gas drilling and hazardous dump sites, etc. Caves and karst information request should the coordinated through the Department of Conservation's Division of Natural Heritage.