The Bulletin of the Georgia Speleological Survey

The Bulletin of the GSS is the annual publication of the GSS. The Bulletin currently comes out in time for the annual meeting held in the spring and covers activites in Georgia caving over the previous year. Includes trip reports, new maps, history, scientific projects, minutes of the annual meeting, roster of GSS members. The Bulletin was published from 1970 to 1974 and then from 1983 to the present. A compilation of front covers, table of contents, and availability for sale of past Bulletins is listed below. Submit articles for consideration for the next Bulletin to the GSS Bulletin Editor.

	The 2008 Bulletin (21 pages; Comes with 2009 Membership) Letter from the Chair Minutes of GSS Annual Meeting for 2008 (Unapproved) The Discovery of Razor Cave Razor Cave Map Another Frick's Cave Yankee Surveys of Pettijohn' Nervous Breakdown Room Nervous Breakdown Room Map Nervous Breakdown Passage in Pettijohns Cave Prehistoric Lithic Cultural Artifacts from Kingston Saltpeter Cave Wild Bills Dakota Cave Map Bee Rock Cave Map Gee Rock Cave No. 2 Map 2008 Georgia Speleological Survey Roster
	The 2007 Bulletin (28 pages; $5) Letter from the Editor The Discovery of Pen Fifteen Cave Little Nicka Cave (GDD 121) Bartow Cave Confederate Niter Works September 22nd, 2007 Trip Report for Resurvey of Frick's Cave Line Plot of Fricks Cave with Topographic Overlay Hurricane Cave Entrance Stone Mountain Cave (GDK 612) Map of Stone Mountain Cave (GDK 612) Foxfold Cave GDD (327) Interstate Horror Hole (GDD 594) Map of Interstate Horror Hole 2007 Georgia Speleological Survey Membership Listing (as of 3/6/2008)
	The 2006 Bulletin (25 pages; $5) Letter From The Chair 2006 Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey Radium Springs Update (GDC 39) A Kingston Saltpeter Cave Boiling Kettle -- Its Discovery and Known History Kingston Saltpeter Cave Entrance Exploration Notes Frick's Cave Survey - Updates 2006 GSS Membership List
	The 2005 Bulletin (29 pages; $5) 2005 Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey Update on the Resurvey of Fricks Cave (GWK 14) In Progress Map of Fricks Cave Resurvey - Little Fricks Cave< In Progress Line Plog of Fricks Cave Resurvey - Topographic Overlay Calvary Cave: A Recent Discovery in Catossa County Jackson Hole and Burnett Spring Caves - A New Georgia Cave System Jackson Hole Cave Map Biscuits and Gravy Cave Narrative Biscuits and Gravy Cave Map The Yahoola Narratives Dew Cave, Floyd County, Georgia Map of Dew Cave, Floyd County, Georgia Stiles Cave, Bartow County, Georgia 2005 GSS Membership List
	The 2004 Bulletin (32 pages; $5) The Golden Age? I Thought This Was It! Minutes of the 2004 GSS Annual Meeting Euharlee Spring Cave GBT577 and Staring Cow Cave GBT578 Bartow County, Georgia Deaton's Cave Entrance MAP- Staring Cow Cave, GBT578 / Euharlee Spring Cave, GBT577 Glory Hole Project Update GSS Report to the SCCi - Fricks Cave Resurvey Project MAP - Frick's Cave Resurvey Project MAP - Frick's Cave - GSS - March 2005 draft An Enigmatic Tooth From a Pleistocene Deposit in Georgia - Is it Human? Bee Rock Cave Names The History, Exploration, and Survey of Bee Rock Cave MAP - Bee Rock Cave
	The 2003 Bulletin (41 pages; $5) Letter from the Chairman Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey 26 April 2003 at Fricks Cave Blocwosh Cave Map - Blocwash Cave, GDD 569 THE ADAIRSVILLE CAVE DIG Dogs and Lung Map - Dog Not Well, GWK 561 Map - Dead Dog Pit, GWK 564 Map - Collapsed Lung Cave, GWK 560 Northwest Georgia Cave Morphology GSS Report - Fricks Resurvey - March 8, 2003 and March 22, 2003 GSS Report - Fricks Trip Report, January 10, 2004 Map - Line Plot for Frick's Cave Resurvey Project Pettijohn's Cave - Fractured Dome Passage Map - Fractured Dome Passage, Pettijohn's Cave, GWK 29 Glory Hole Restoration Underway Cave Leads, Rumors of Caves, and Lost Caves Map - ET XXII Brutis Pit, GWK 562 Map - Dusty Cave, GFL 166 References to Wilsons (Pettijohns) Cave and Anderson Spring Cave Howards Waterfall Cave: Glimpses Of Its Nineteenth Century History Procrastination, Shooting Stars, and other Back Burner Caves Map - Shooting Stars, GDD 432 2003 GSS Membership List
	The 2002 Bulletin (48 pages; $5) Listing of Maps Youth Work To Restore White River Cave Near Rockmart Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey GSS Report - Fricks Trip Report, March 22, 2002 GSS Report - Fricks Trip Report, January 2, 2003 William Fred Eason, Georgia Saltpeter Miner The Crane Cave Chronicles and GSS 80's Relationship to Chickamauga Battlefield The Devils Hopper In 1870 The Naming Bumblebuzz Pit A Page From 1974 Arm Hole Pretty Toolbox Blowup Cave Miss Ing Pit Lord Milo Cave Burning Leaf and Gila Monster Crack Extension of Schreiber's Extension Two Dogs Whining Grandma Gainous and the History of the Glory Hole Cave Datums in a Nutshell 1999 GSS Dig A Salute to a Friend of the GSS GSS Cave Location Correction Report-Usage Instructions GSS Cave Location Correction Report GSS Cave Report Form 2002 GSS Membership List
	The 2001 Bulletin (39 pages; $5) Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey GSS Report - The Resurvey of Fricks Cave (GWK 14) In Progress Map of Fricks Cave Resurvey A Confederate Soldier's 1864 Visit To Cave Spring Cave The Discovery of Flowing Stone Cave Map of Flowing Stone Cave Alabama/Georgia Cave Survey Update for 2000-2001 In Progress Map of Alabama/Georgia Cave Exploration and Mapping Reports Broken Rib Pit - GWK 530 Chicken Slot Cave - GWK531 Slip Slot - GWK 526 Slimy Slot - GWK 529 Not Dans Birthday Pit - GWK 532 Map of Stiles Cave Map of Three Amigos Cave Vertical Profile of Three Amigos Cave Map of Eight Pointer Cave Map of Hoots Pit Map of Ma Lois Cave LePew Crawl Map Map of The Luge Map of Foss Cave Map of Eric & Bre Caves 2001 GSS Membership List
	The 2000 Bulletin (36 pages; Out of Print) Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey Dye Trace Results in Cemetery Pit, Georgia TAG A BAT ­ A Gray Bat Parten Cave: Georgia's 'Lost' Confederate Government Saltpeter Works New Faunal and Fungal Records From Caves in Georgia, USA An 1844 Visit To a 'Rock Cleft' in Cassville, GA Follow-up to Larry O. Blair's 'Cassville Rock Cleft' Article Exploration and Mapping Reports Map of Klayer Lost Section Cave Map of Bluebird Spring Cave Map of Autumn Bluebird Cave Map of Smalley Cave Map of Geriatrics Cave Busch Cave, Bartow County ­ A New Find 'In Progress' Map of Three Amigos Cave 2000 GSS Members
	The 1999 Bulletin (42 pages; $3) Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey A Donation of South Georgia Caving History 1862 Letter re Georgia Saltpeter Contractors Alabama/Georgia Cave Map of Alabama/Georgia Cave Hurricane Cave Exploration & Survey Update Map of the Relationship Between Hurricane Cave and Jeffs Hole Map of the Relationship Between Hurricane Cave and Rusty's Nineteenth Century Cave Spring Cave Newspaper Accounts The History of Dome Climbing in Jasons Twin Domes Preliminary Results of Hydrologic Studies on a Portion of Fox Mountain, Georgia Status of the Georgia Cave Biota Inventory Pettijohn's Article Revisited Pleistocene Cave Fossils From Georgia Housed at the Weinman Mineral Museum Map of Overlooked Pit (GDD500) Map of Dangling Legs Cave ((GWK505) Map of Davis Farm Cave (GBT222) 1999 GSS Members
	The 1998 Bulletin (37 pages; Out of Print) Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey Hurricane Cave Exploration and Survey Update for 1998 Results from Biological Surveys of Eight Caves in Walker and Dade Counties, Georgia Continuing Biological Survey of Georgia's Caves A Civil War Visit to Kingston Saltpeter Cave Confederate Guns and Gold ­ The Discovery and Exploration of Lost Canyon Cave Map of Lost Canyon Cave The Exploration of Sub-Stream Cave Map of Sub-Stream Cave, GDD498 Map of Little Liby Cave, GDD499 Key Factors to Look for when Searching for Evidence of Early Man in Georgia Caves Steel Wheel Well, GDD502 Map of Steel Wheel Well, GDD502 Rediscovery of Ed Reese Cave Map of Ed Reese Cave Map of Spooky Cave, GWK502 Map of Kirchmeyer Cave, GDD196 Map of Fluted Well, GWK179 Map of Porthole Cave, GWK178 Map of Throbbing Hum, GWK497 1998 GSS Members (as of 2/23/99) GSS Cave Report Form
	The 1997 Bulletin (43 pages; Out of Print) Letter from the Editor Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey History of Exploration and Survey in Hurricane Cave, Georgia Map of Hurricane Cave Extension Bradford Cave ­ A Looted Burial in Bartow County Bradford Cave Revisited Map of Bradford Cave Three Georgia Cave Clippings Archeological Discoveries in a Floyd County Cave Map of Big Buzzard Cave Head South Where the Big Ones Are Breaking Rock with Plug and Feather Map of Feed and Seed Pit Map of Rotting Rat Cave Map of Missing Evan Well Map of Two Bridge Cave GSS Membership List GSS Cave Report Form
	The 1996 Bulletin (34 pages; Out of Print) Letter from the Editor Minutes of the Georgia Speleological Survey Hurricane Cave Resurvey and Exploration Update Hurricane Cave Overlay Map The Private Mining of Kingston Saltpeter Cave, 1861-62 Update of Studies at Yarbrough Cave Pud Holin, Piddlin, and Poison Ivy Piddling Pit Map Poison Ivy Pit Map Twisted Oak Cave Map North Bend Sink (GWK92) and North Bend Too (GWK484) Cleanup at Shingle Cave (GGR348) Map of Lawson High Hole (GDD485) Updated Map of Phoenix Spring (GDD127) Map of Allen Spring Pit (GWK317) GSS Cave Report Form
	The 1995 Bulletin (21 pages; Out of Print) Letter from the Chairman The Exploration of Caboose Cave Caboose Cave Map An Interesting 1837 Description of Pettijohn's Cave Newspaper Accounts of Social Outings at Kingston Saltpeter Cave, 1869-1886 Apocalypse Cave Apocalypse Cave Map Caves and Graves: Legal and Political Considerations of Cave Archeology Long's Short Cave Map Kingston Corner Cave Map Bladed Grove Map
	The 1994 Bulletin (21 pages; $3) The Forklore of Cisco Cave Map of Cisco Cave A Trip to Nickajack Cave Taylor Cave and Whistling Cave Map of Taylor Cave and Whistling Cave 1866 Newspaper Accounts of Blowing Springs Cave of Georgia Gizmos and Gadgets: How GPS and radio assisted with the discovery of Fox Line Rift Map of Fox Line Rift Map of Phoenix Spring Cave Map of Payne Gap Cave Map of Nancy Keragin Cave
	The 1993 Bulletin (51 pages; Out of Print) GSS Officers/Membership Statement Letter from the Chairman Minutes from the 1993 GSS Annual Meeting Unmapped Caves of Georgia Index and Short Description to the Geologic terms used by the GSS GSS Map Standards The Confederate Niter Works, Personnel, and Probable Modern Name of Pack Cave How to Use a Lat/Long Ruler Exploration in Allen Springs Cave Allen Springs Cave Maps (Special Insert) Caves in a Swamp? Civil War Diary Reference to Cave Springs Cave Gator Creek Cave GSS Pettyjohn Cave Project High Anxiety Information Needed Map Book Supplements Table of Maps
	The 1992 Bulletin (22 pages; $3) 1992 GSS Update New Caves on the GSS Printout Middle Georgia Caving Determining Geographic Position ­ Field Techniques for Cavers Archeological and Paleotological Sites in Georgia Caves Constitution of the Georgia Speleological Survey Explorations in the Back Valley Area of McLemore Cove The Twilight Zone, and Beyond GSS Cave Qualifications GSS Membership Roster
	The 1991 Bulletin (24 pages; $3) Minutes of the GSS Annual Meeting Georgia Caves with No Maps Age Before Beauty Chatooga County Caving First Colony of the Endangered Gray Bat in Georgia Georgia's Southern Cavefish A List of Richard Schreiber's Mapping-Exploration Trips to Pettijohn's Cave, Georgia White River Cave White River Cave Map GSS Membership List
	The 1990 Bulletin (23 pages; $3) GSS Activities Minutes of the 1990 GSS Meeting Jackson Gap Cave Minimum Cave Lengths The Schreiber Map of Pettijohn's Cave Butts County Cave New Caves List GSS Constitution The Mountain Cove Farm Cave Complex Cave Map Standards for the GSS 1990 GSS Membership List
	The 1989 Bulletin (38 pages; Out of Print) 1989 GSS Membership List GSS Activities in 1989 New Caves List Unmapped Caves in Georgia Update on Caving in Georgia Minutes o the 1989 GSS Meeting Walker County, Georgia Saltpeter Operations Calculating Longitude and Latitude Georgia's Blind Cave Salamander The Caves of Catoosa County, Georgia Late Pleistocene Records of Caribou and Elk From Georgia and Alabama Hurricane Cave: Beyond the Air Chute
	The 1988 Bulletin (33 pages; $3) Update on Caving in Georgia Two Challenges for 1989 About the Cover Unmapped Caves in Georgia GSS Projects for 1988 and 1989 Minutes of the 1988 GSS Meeting New Caves on the GSS Printout Horseshoe Cave, GSS #12 Common Paleozoic Fossils Found in Northwest Georgia Caves 1894 Accounts of a Paulding County, Georgia Cave The Pits of Georgia Union County's Bat Caves The T.A.G. Coordinate System New Finds in Waterfall Cave 1988 GSS Membership List GSS Cave Report Form
	The 1986-1987 Bulletin (Out of Print) Minutes of the 1986 GSS Annual Meeting The 1987 Official Membership Roster of the GSS An Update on Caving in Georgia Georgia's Long Caves Planned Future Publications of the GSS New Caves on the GSS Printout yankee Soldier Names in Chapmans Cave, Georgia The Anderson Spring Cave Extension Ellisons Cave Re-survey Project The Remapping of Pettijohns Cave Saltpetere Caves of Georiga "Ringgold Cave": Its 1862 Nitre Workers, and a Possible 1864 Visit by Union Soldiers Flint Biface Knife Found Near Yarbrough - Mo Hole Caves Map of Chapmans Cave Map of Howards Waterfall Cave Map of Trout Cave
	The 1985 Bulletin (Out of Print) Minutes of the 1986 GSS Annual Meeting Membership List An Update on the GSS and Georgia Caves New Caves on teh GSS Printout Two Teeth From Deadmans Pit Howards Waterfall Cave The Re-exploration of Blowing Springs I Newspaper Accounts of the Exploration of Blowing Springs Cave, Walker County, Georgia Dade County Burial Cave Cave Spring Cave Niter Works, Georiga Hooker Cave Cave Standards Report Form Map of Hooker Cave, GSS #90 Map of Glory Hole, GSS #56 Map of Tennille Caves, GSS #20 Map of Big Ridge Cave, GSS #200 Map of Richards Pit, GSS #333 Map of Sujamar Chimney, GSS #251 Map of Pool Pit, GSS #162
	The 1984 Bulletin (23 pages; Out of Print) Minutes of the GSS Annual Meeting Membership List The GSS Cave Files New Caves on the GSS Listing An Update on the GSS The Non-carbonate Caves of Georgia Chickamauga Cave Pleistocene Remains in Kingston Saltpeter Cave New Cave Report FormChickamauga Cave Pleistocene Remains in Kingston Saltpeter Cave New Cave Report Form Map of Howard Hughes Cave Map of Whiteoak Mountain Cave Map of Rocktown Cave Map of Raven Cliff Cave Map of Chickamauga Cave
	The 1983 Bulletin (Out of Print) A Look at the Johnsons Crook Cave Registers Johnsons Crook Cave Map The Kingston Saltpeter Cave Preserve Georgia Long Caves List A Summary of Caving in Georgia New Caves in Georgia The Unmapped Caves in Georgia A Note on Recent Activities of the GSS The Constitution of the GSS Anderson Spring Cave Anderson Spring Cave Map Case Cave Map Ulla Cave (Mountain Cave #3) Map Sittons Cave Map GSS Cave Report Form
	The 1974 Bulletin ( pages; Out of Print) Directors ­ 1974 Introduction GSS Activities in 1974 Maps Completed in 1974 Progress Report: GSS 66, Byer's Cave Survey Progress Report: Byer's Cave Survey 1974 Deadman's Pit Ladd's Lime Caves Peck Pennington Cave Sitton's Cave Report North Bend Sink ­ Another Unusual Georgia Cave Climax Cave ­ GSS 36 Other South Georgia Activities Engle Cave, Dade County, Georgia The GSS Print-Out List
	The 1973 Bulletin ( pages; Out of Print) Directors ­ 1973 Introduction Maps Completed by the GSS in 1973 The Caves of Floyd County, Georgia: A Preliminary Report Darlington Cave, GSS 369 Cave Spring Cave, GSS 18 Quaries Bluff Cave I, GSS 22 Quaries Bluff Cave II, GSS 26 Blacks Bluff Cave, GSS 38 Celanese Cave, GSS 47 Mountain End Cave, GSS 59 Spout Springs Cave I, GSS 150 Spout Springs Cave II, GSS 159 McCall Cave, GSS 160 Wheeler Cave, GSS 161 Powerline Cave, GSS 164 Dusty Cave, GSS 166 Harper's Farm Cave, GSS 172 Silver Creek Cave, GSS 173 Cat Den Caves, GSS 188 Airport Cave, GSS 189 Texas Valley Cave, GSS 202 Manis Cave, GSS 219 Osborne Cave, GSS 220 Braden's Cave GSS 228 Big Buzzard Cave, GSS 264 Blacks Bluff Quarry Cave, GSS 267 Destroyed Caves of Floyd County, Georgia Non-Caves of Floyd County, Georgia Miscellaneous Notes About Floyd County Caves Notes on the History of Cave Springs Cave, Floyd County, Georgia Aragonite in Georgia Caves
	The 1972 Bulletin ( pages; Out of Print) Directors ­ 1972 Introduction GSS Activities in 1972 Maps Completed by the GSS in 1972 Blowing Springs Cave II ­ Chelsea Gulf Cave System A Preliminary Study of the Fault System of Anthony Cave, Bartow County, Georgia, GSS 175 A Brief Analysis of Some Structural Controls in Cave in Dade and Walker Counties, Northwest Georgia Long's Rock Wall Cave, GSS 101 A C14 Date From a Raccoon Fossil From the Ellison's Cave System and its Implications To Rate Formation of Incredible Pit
	The 1971 Bulletin ( pages; Out of Print) Directors ­ 1971 Introduction Maps Completed by the GSS in 1971 GSS Activities in 1971 Additional Maps Acquired by the GSS in 1971 Cave Information Wanted GSS Membership List ­ 1971 Archeomagnetic Sedimentation Studies at Climax Cave Bilbo Baggins Cave, GSS 231 Paleontology In Georgia Caves Fallen Palace Bones A History of Kingston Saltpeter Cave, Georgia Boxcar Cave, GSS 69
	The 1970 Bulletin ( pages; Out of Print) Directors ­ 1970 Introduction Goals and Purposes of the GSS Early Georgia Cave Surveys Founding and Early History of the GSS Note of Appreciation and Thanks GSS Activities in 1970 Cave Qualifications for Inclusion on GSS Listing Georgia's Long Caves List as of December 31, 1970 GSS Geology Projects Georgia Blind Salamander Maps Completed by the GSS in 1970 Maps in the GSS File (Other Than for 1970) GSS Hydrology Projects Georgia Cave Fauna Peacock Cave, GSS 89 GSS Membership List ­ 1970 Shaledirt Cave, GSS 142 Elbow Cave, GSS 191 Reeves Crawlway, GSS 126 Georgia Cave Literature: a Bibliography Constitution, Georgia Speleological Survey Cave Report Form (1970) Dear Caver
	GSS Bulletin 1970-1974 Reprint (Hardbound, 136 pages plus index and appendix; Out of Print) Index Appendix A Alphabetic Listing of Caves (as of 5/94) Numeric Listing of Caves (as of 5/94) Alphabetic Listing of Non-Caves (as of 5/94) Numeric Listing of Non-Caves (as of 5/94)

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195 Windy Court SW
Lilburn, GA 30047-6442
H: (770) 279-7674
flittermice@bellsouth.net

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