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Biosphere Reserve Information Overview

Mammoth Cave Area

Location:    37°07' to 37°17'N; 86°00' to 86°17'W

Elevation:   180 - 231 m above sea level

 

The Historic, or Natural, Entrance is perhaps the best known sight in the Mammoth Cave National Park. NPS Photo.

 

    Contact address Jack Eversole
Barren River Area Development
P. O. Box 9005
Bowling Green, Kentucky 42102-9005

United States of America
  Contact address Mark DePoy
Mammoth Cave National Park
PO Box 7
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky 42259-0007

United States of America
    Telephone (1)(270) 758-2180   Telephone (1)(270) 749-2508
    Fax     Fax (1)(270) 749-2916
    email jack.eversole@BRADD.org   email mark_depoy@nps.gov

Text Box: Administrative authorities
Mammoth Cave National Park/Barren River Area Development District, BRADD
Major Ecosystem Type
Temperate broadleaf forest
Year Designed
1990, Extended 1996

Related links...Gypsum formations in the Cave take on many bizarre forms, like this gypsum 'flower.'

Barren River Development District
Mammoth Cave National Park - National Park Service
Mammoth Cave National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Site

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 07/01/2005

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