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- EIN 13-4043653
- Po Box 254 Schoharie NY 12157-0254 USA
- http://www.caves.org/conservancy/ncc/
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Causes: Animals, Environment, Land Resources Conservation, Protection of Endangered Species, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management
Mission: In 1978 one of the nation's first cave conservancies the Northeastern Cave Conservancy Inc. "NCC" was formed to accept the donation of Knox Cave in Albany County NY when the National Speleological Society "NSS" declined to accept it. The NSS's board was deeply concerned that the liability exposure was too risky so the NCC was incorporated with Knox Cave as its sole asset. The NCC's officers have appointed managers and led several volunteer cleanups to act as responsible stewards over the past 20 years and to reopen a popular cave that had been closed. To the NCC's credit there have been no major accidents at Knox Cave over the past two decades and several educational groups have been able to use the resources on and under the property. Knox Cave is closed during the winter season to allow the reintroduction of colonies of bats in what a N.Y. State bat specialist has deemed a cave conducive to hibernation.