{"id":13,"date":"2020-09-27T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-09-27T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:00:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the KSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The Kansas Speleological Society was formed in 1983 to catalog, study, and to systematically explore the caves of Kansas; as well as to serve as a means for cavers to exchange views, information, and leads for and about these Kansas caves.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0Cave locations will\u00a0not\u00a0be disseminated through this website.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0The following conservation ethic has been adopted by the Kansas Speleological Society:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Members of the KSS shall in no way deface, break, or remove any formation in any cave.<\/li>\r\n<li>All refuse brought into a cave should be removed when leaving the cave.<\/li>\r\n<li>Members will do their best not to harm any organism in a cave and will not remove any organism from a cave (except for approved scientific study).<\/li>\r\n<li>Landowner permission is a must for entering a cave. Any KSS member entering a cave without landowner permission should not consider themselves as acting in any official capacity of the KSS.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The KSS is formed as an internal organization of the\u00a0National Speleological Society\u00a0and was officially chartered May 30, 1984.<\/p>\r\n<p>KSS meetings are held four times per year at various locations in the state of Kansas. Meeting dates are set two meetings ahead and are announced in the Kansas Kaver.<\/p>\r\n<p>The KSS publishes a newsletter, the Kansas Kaver. All KSS publications are available to KSS members.<\/p>\r\n<p>Membership to the KSS is open to anyone who supports cave conservation. Dues are $15 per year. For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:kss@caves.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kss@caves.org<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Speleological Society was formed in 1983 to catalog, study, and to systematically explore the caves of Kansas; as well as to serve as a means for cavers to exchange views, information, and leads for and about these Kansas caves.\u00a0\u00a0Cave locations will\u00a0not\u00a0be disseminated through this website.\u00a0\u00a0The following conservation ethic has been adopted by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansas.caves.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}