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Do you have Questions about a Yellow Post Card you received in the mail?
Here are answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the NSS Directory Initiative!

The JULY 2018 ISSUE is now available. Earlier issues are here. Protect your membership by not sharing it outside your Society.
The April 2018 Conservation Issue is available here to the public.

The JUNE 2018 issue of the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies (Vol. 80 No. 1) is now available. Find all issues and individual articles here.

NSS WNS Letter to the Feds (Ag & Interior)

Now includes DAG Response and second NSS Letter!
PDF version  Text version  How you can help!


The Director Election results are posted!

Congratulations to Cindy Wu, Nathan Farrar, Carol Tiderman, and Savannah Sawyer on their election to the BOG. See the Election Results page. These new directors will join the Board at the Convention meeting in July.

2018 NSS Convention: Helena, Montana
July 28 - August 3, 2018

It's almost here! Check out the new webinar here!
Register TODAY!


Webinars and Luminary Talks


Femur Fractures: Traction Splinting 1

Demonstrations of how to improvise traction splints in back-country and underground situations where commercial products won't do. It's a challenging and perishable skill.
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Charles Gibbs, an NSS Luminary

Charles Gibbs reasoned that some type of ascender activated by the legs instead of the arms would desirably free one’s hands; the result was the Gibbs Ascender and the Ropewalker climbing system..
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