Schedule

Hosted by Great Basin National Park & the National Cave Rescue Commission.

Bristlecone Convention Center, Pinyon Room

These may be self-driving field trips with established stopping points and on-site interpreters. You will be encouraged to carpool. All field trips will depart from the convention center. Boxed lunches will be provided.

Warm Springs Natural Area is a 1,250-acre oasis in Moapa, Nevada, featuring more than two dozen bubbling springs, rushing streams and lush wetlands. It is also home to over 28 sensitive species and more than 200 species of birds. Operated by the Southern Nevada Water Authority, their mission is to manage the property as a natural area for the benefit of native species and for the recovery of the endangered Moapa dace.

Hidden Cave is an archaeological site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, as part of Grimes Point. The cave itself was formed around 21,000 years ago by the waves of rising Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. The cave has been excavated by archaeologists three times: once in 1940, again in 1951, and finally a large excavation in 1979-1980 by the American Museum of Natural History.