NSS membership poll

[aainslie]

I for forming the "Flood Mammouth Cave and Giving it to the Cave Divers Organization"
Anybody want to help lay 360 miles of line?????

Sign me up!

Where's global warming when you need it? Let's run a campaign to get everyone burning fossil fuels as fast as we can. That way we'll get our caves back sooner.

[Kelly Jessop]

Sign me up!

Where's global warming when you need it? Let's run a campaign to get everyone burning fossil fuels as fast as we can. That way we'll get our caves back sooner.

Andrew I knew I could count on you. Now I depend on the mathmetician in you. If it takes us 15 seconds to knot 10' of line,how much time should we set aside to knot 360 miles-plus remember to add a beer run factor to the equation

[aainslie]

Andrew I knew I could count on you. Now I depend on the mathmetician in you. If it takes us 15 seconds to knot 10' of line,how much time should we set aside to knot 360 miles-plus remember to add a beer run factor to the equation

10 minutes..... to employ someone else to do it for me.

Hours... of beer time watching them do it.

[Kelly Jessop]

10 minutes..... to employ someone else to do it for me.

Hours... of beer time watching them do it.

I would vote for an Australian beer...unless your name's not Bruce.

[aainslie]

I would vote for an Australian beer...unless your name's not Bruce.

If forced to drink Ozzie swill, then I might do the knotting after all.

[sam]

Very well put Skip

The money spent on membership is such a small thing and it really does keep the caves open to us. Those who are active members, volunteering their time and talents, are dependent on the dues from the inactive members. It's not just nice magazines in the mail, but stairs, boardwalks, access, tables, and all the PR to state authorities, landowners, etc.

I'd be a member of the NSS, CDS, and NACD without Cow, without the mags, without cool stickers to put on my truck, without conferences and workshops. Why? Because the work they do in caving and cave diving is worth the dues all by itself. Conservation, Preservation, Education, Training, continuing to support explorations and survey....

If you are not a member, I guess you have your reasons, but the paltry amount needed for dues surely can not be one of the reasons. Give something, anything. Maybe if you can't or won't be a member of one or more organizations, then contribute time and talent? Make a donation to a special project once in awhile....

The NACD has some worthy projects you can donate to (see the website) - like helping us get money for more Water Quality Test Kits so we can expand the caves/springs that are being tested with results posted for all to see (member or not) on the website. Check out it and send a Check!

-skip

[SLIM]

Give me some shine, or Jameson and I will sit with you both and watch someone else do the knot tying. Might even have to interject that aint the way to do it, or your doing it all worg.

SLIM

[Bill Rotella]

Poll for the NSS portion of the CDS membership

Are we planning on changing our bi-laws that will require a membership vote?

[J_glenn06]

I know this question is more thank likely not sopposed to be here but do you have to be a member of the NSS-CDS to go to the workshop next month? Me and my boss are not members but would really like to go.

[Cindy]

Why are WE the subset?

Let's make CDS the primary organisation, and have a section called "potential future divesite section" that explores dry caves.

Because back in the start of the CDS it was an easy way to get a not for profit status. Also it was a good way to get National backing and support.

By the way, Alachua is owned by the NSS and ran by the CDS. They can always take it back...