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Missy Shields


Missy Shields holds a masters in Business and Geology and she has made sure to contribute these abilities in caving. You can find her efforts easily on line as early as 2005 when she helped in a volunteer effort at the annual Horse Cave sinkhole cleanup where two dumpsters were filled in four hours. This highly active member of the Kentucky Speleological Survey was mentioned in the 2013 newsletter for her contributions as a Cave Creek Survey team member in 2012. Last year, she also was in the newspaper for her amazing volunteer work in what Heart Country Newspaper News Herald claimed was the largest dump cleanup in the state since the 1980s. In this work she had to repel 10 minutes to a cave dump underground. The effort recovered literally tons of construction wood, metal, garbage, and chemicals polluting the cave! Nice work Missy! Thank you for being another extraordinary woman caver!

SOURCES
Kentucky Speleological Survey Newsletter April 2013

http://www.glasgow-ky.com/auto_pod/pod_query.php?search_text=&Search=1&id=1855&ts=1132725600&to_display=&start=1120176000&stop=1136073600

http://kydep.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/illegal-open-dumping-is-the-pits

http://hcn.stparchive.com/Archive/HCN/HCN08012013p01.php

https://www.facebook.com/KYcaver

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