Question: Is the mining industry harming the cave environments for endangered species of bats?
Problem: The very name of the cave illustrates the problem: "Hellhole"
Working with Greer Industries, Extreme Endeavors has been performing microclimate research to ensure area mining operations do not affect the environment of these caves.
A microclimate is a small, but distinctly different, climate within a larger area. A microclimate can be extremely small- the size of a back yard, for example- but it can also be much larger. Entire valleys and hills are classically microclimates.
Extreme Endeavors has developed a customized underground monitoring system to collect and analyze data from the Hellhole and Schoolhouse Caves in Germany Valley, West Virginia.
