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Oregon Caves National Monument
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Oregon Caves National Monument needs you!

100% of your donation (either Volunteering or supporting the monument) goes directly back to your National Monument.

This money has been dedicated to Resource Management projects, such as mapping and data collection of the monument’s plants, cultural landmarks, and wildlife use pattern. The improved knowledge will help us to better manage this delicate system. Thank you for your generosity.

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We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill
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This snail was named after an employee of Oregon Cave, not because he was slow but because he wrote the technical description of the snail.  

Did You Know?
There is a snail that lives on the marble rock outcrops of Oregon Caves that has adapted to use the calcium from the rock to make its shell.

Last Updated: September 27, 2007 at 16:49 EST