{"id":1066,"date":"2017-02-02T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:41:55","slug":"at-arizonas-kartchner-caverns-science-supports-stewardship-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Arizona&#8217;s Kartchner Caverns Steeped in Science, Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KCSP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1069 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KCSP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Kartchner Caverns\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Kartchner Caverns State Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When co-discovers Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts found the blowhole entrance to the caverns in 1974, they did something extraordinary: They kept it a secret. \u00a0And when they could no longer shield the caves through secrecy, they sought out science to help protect Kartchner Caverns post-development.<\/p>\n<p>Research has supported Kartchner ever since, but the reverse is true as well. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk to find out how:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/428666\/arizonas-kartchner-caverns-science-supports-stewardship-\u2014-and-vice-versa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At Arizona&#8217;s Kartchner Caverns, Science Supports Stewardship \u2014 And Vice Versa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When co-discovers Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts found the blowhole entrance to the caverns in 1974, they did something extraordinary: They kept it a secret. \u00a0And when they could no longer shield the caves through secrecy, they sought out science to help protect Kartchner Caverns post-development. Research has supported Kartchner ever since, but the reverse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arizona&#8217;s Kartchner Caverns Steeped in Science, Secrecy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,94,50,53,4,596,3,13,43],"tags":[1185,1186,1184,23,533,25,1183,1182,51],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-engineering","category-geoscience","category-hiking","category-history","category-paleontology","category-science","category-technology","category-travel","tag-bats","tag-caves","tag-fungi","tag-insects","tag-microbes","tag-nature","tag-preservation","tag-secrets","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}