The Southwestern Region of the NSS is a Region of the National Speleological Society, and was founded in 1962. The Southwestern Region spans New Mexico, west Texas, and eastern Arizona. These boundaries overlap boundaries recognized by the Texas Speleological Association and The Arizona Regional Association.
Regional activities include exploration, mapping, cave inventory, scientific study, public education and awareness, and conservation and restoration volunteer efforts with the NPS, BLM, and USFS. The Southwestern Region holds four Regional meetings a year. Three of them are field meetings, and include caving activities and/or volunteer projects. The Winter Technical is held indoors with technical papers presented.
Spring Regional - late March or Early April
Summer Regional - usually Memorial Day weekend
Fall Regional - usually Labor Day weekend
Winter Technical Regional - usually held the first or second weekend in December.
SWR Spring Regional - 2010 Additional camping will be available near Ft. Stanton entrance THIS WILL BE A WORK REGIONAL |
 Work Team @ Entrance |
 BLM Bunkhouse Camping |
BLM WNS Cleaning Sta. |
Regular membership is ten dollars per year, and includes six issues of the Southwestern Cavers newsletter. Additional family members (living at the same address) are an additional one dollar each, but do not receive the newsletter. The individual members (regular or family) present at a Regional meeting are the voting members of the Region; member grottos have no voting franchise. Subscriptions are available without membership for nine dollars per year.
If you would like to become an individual member of the Southwestern Region, make your check or money order payable to "Southwestern Region of the NSS". Please include name(s), mailing address, phone number, email address(es), primary grotto affiliation, NSS number(s) (if applicable), and type of membership (regular or family) for each person. and mail to:
Southwestern Region of the NSS
c/o Patty Daw, Treasurer
P.O. Box 1952
Carlsbad, NM 88221
Please send any changes of information to this address as well.
New NSS Youth Group Regional Coordinator for Southwestern Region
The new NSS Southwest Regional Coordinator for the NSS Youth Group Liaison Committee is Deanna Younger. The next generation of cavers depend on what they experience now, and this is a youth group’s connection to caves and caving. The Youth Group Liaison Committee connects this generation of cave explorers and the next through youth groups by seeking to include the sciences and arts of speleology and cave exploration in their program, and by involving the Regional Coordinators, partners, associates, and Grottos of the region. Deanna, who started her caving experience in Luray Caverns in Virginia, has a website and she is happy to answer any youth group questions you may have. This is especially important when you have a youth group such as scouting or church groups and they need information on caving and potential trips.
| Rev. 3-12-2010 | SWR pages maintained by Jennifer Foote bigredfoote@yahoo.com and Blake Jordan Blandevoid@comcast.net |
