Mammoth Cave National Park, KY

Dates

Apr 27th - May 3rd 2008

Service Project

Removing invasive plants, trail maintenance, restoration projects

Free Days

Tour of Mammoth Cave, canoeing, mountain biking, horseback riding (for fee)

Accommodations

Dormitory setting with showers

Trip Rating

Active : hiking several miles to work sites, bending, lifting, digging

Leaders

Vernon Cook
Jeanne Klimczak

Equipment

Mammoth Cave National Park preserves the cave system and a part of the Green River valley and hilly country of south central Kentucky. This is the world's longest cave system, with more than 365 miles explored. Early guide Stephen Bishop called the cave a "grand, gloomy and peculiar place," but its vast chambers and complex labyrinths have earned its name: Mammoth.

We'll work with the park staff removing invasive plants, and may also do some trail maintenance, or work on several other ongoing restoration projects including American butternut and American chestnut restoration, ginseng surveys, dogwood restoration and prairie habitat restoration.