Lava tubes of the Markagunt Plateau, Utah

In August, a team assembled from Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada converged upon an area in the Dixie National Forest that contains several lava tube caves. Bioinventories were conducted at several of the caves over about a weeks’ time, and these collections appear to contain several new species, as detailed in the final report to the Forest Service. The Subterranean Ecology Institute provided significant support for this research.