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The 2025 NCKMS team would be happy to custom-design a program to provide your business the maximum of benefit and visibility. Please feel free to reach us at any time at ely2025@nckms.org to discuss how we might integrate your organization into our production.
The 2025 NCKMS production team is still working out details for federally recognized non-profit organizations and related informational displays. We will endeavor to make room for on-topic and cave-related organizations as much as possible. Please reach out to us no sooner than February, 2025.
Merchandise sales, services and consulting, and equipment sales at the 2025 NCKMS conference is strictly limited to sponsors and to the Western Cave Conservancy. Unless specific permission is otherwise granted, non-sponsors will be limited to receiving organizational donations only. Taxes and business licensing regulations of White Pine County, Nevada will be enforced. No food or beverage vendors will be allowed. Additional restrictions may apply.
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Nevada's Lovelock Cave is one of the most important classic sites of the Great Basin archaeological record because conditions of the cave are conducive to the preservation of organic and inorganic material.
In 1911 two miners, David Pugh and James Hart, were hired to mine for bat guano from the cave. They removed a layer of guano estimated to be three to six feet deep and weighing about 250 tons. The miners were aware of the artifacts they were disturbing but, unfortunately, only the most interesting specimens were saved. Archaeologists were quickly alerted to the existence of the cave where they found 11 pre-historic duck decoys stored inside two woven baskets.
The cave was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1984. It was the first major cave in the Great Basin to be excavated.