Kentucky Karst Conservancy

02/13/2022

Theresa with Crystal, Les and Ellen from Copperhead Consulting did the official bat count for Big Bat Cave yesterday. There were sixteen bats one with White Nose Syndrome (WNS). The last count there were forty bats. Before WNS there were a thousand bats with at least four species hibernating.

Copperhead Consulting did the regular bat count in Big Bat Cave. The numbers were down from the last count. The population has decreased from forty (40) bats...

12/27/2021

Here is a short video about the Kentucky Hole in Big Bat Cave

My friend Elliott and I spent some time hanging out at the Kentucky Hole in Big Bat Cave. The cave is in Breckinridge County Kentucky and owned by the Kentuc...

08/28/2021

To everyone that has kept up following us while we try to hold it together during these times Thank you. I have not done much in Big Bat Cave but I did go up to Marengo Caverns in Indiana USA and had a bit of success with my 360 camera. I am going to make more of an effort to post stuff. I do post caving stuff on Twitter and YouTube so I plan on putting it here. Again thank you all for the follows and I hope to get underground soon. Ken Bailey KKC President
Here is the link

This is a 360 video so use the mouse to pan around to see what everyone is doing. Use the zoom tools to of course zoom in and out. The audio is binaural so i...

06/18/2020

Here is a chance to meet some of the new cavers that will be saving Big Bat Cave in years to come. We kept our distance and made the trip a safe as possible.

We all were able to keep our distance and make the trip safe. It was great taking cavers to a cave they will be able to go into for the rest of their lives, ...

11/14/2019

https://youtu.be/AV7kILoyCwo

Vertical caving is inherently dangerous but with proper equipment and training can be a great adventure and get cavers into places most people never see. Jos...

11/06/2019

A big thank you to everyone that made the 2019 Vertical Class a success. I look forward to next year.

09/06/2019

The Kentucky Karst Conservancy just finished the yearly 48 Hour Big Bat LiDAR Project. Here is a short video of Heather McQueen and her explanation on keeping the Survey Book for the project. Thank you everyone that participated this year.

Heather McQueen was kind enough to share her thoughts on keeping the map book on the Big Bat LiDAR Project. Her entries always have a neat perspective and so...

04/25/2019

I just spoke with JPat today. If you have not caved with JPat Stevens here is an interview he gave a while back.
Anyway he has gone to Wisconsin to be with his long time companion Franny who has been very ill.
We never put anything like this on the page but without JPat there would be no Kentucky Karst Conservancy and no Mushroom Entrance into Big Bat Cave.
Our thoughts are with you and Franny.

James Patrick Stevens tells his story of caving and of Big Bat Cave in Breckenridge County Kentucky.