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Wikipedia Description: Oregon Caves National Monument
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Oregon Caves National Monument is a national monument in the northern Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon in the United States. Known primarily for its marble caves, the 488 acre (1.97 km�) park is located in southeastern Josephine County approximately 30 mi (48 km) south of Grants Pass.

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In 1874, while a local man named Elijah Davidson was hunting, his dog Bruno chased a bear into a cave. He lasted only several minutes in the cave, with his seven matches. After they all burnt out though, he had to jump down into the chest-high creek and follow it out. It took him seven hours to escape the cave. This discovery became an attraction, and in the 1890s developers opened the caves as a commercial enterprise. In 1909, at the urging of Joaquin Miller and other influential men, President William Howard Taft declared the caves a U.S. National Monument. The Monument was managed by the U.S. Forest Service until August 10, 1933 when jurisdiction was transferred to the National Park Service.

The 3.5 mile (5.6 km) marble cave in the Monument contains one of the largest assemblages of endemic cave dwelling insects in the United States. Recently they have gained notoriety for the Pleistocene jaguar and grizzly bear fossils found in some of the deeper chambers. The National Park Service provides cave tours for a fee (as of April 2007, it was $8.50). Tours last up to 90 minutes, and temperatures inside the caves are 44 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) all year round, regardless of outdoor temperature. Also, you must be taller than 42 inches to attend a cave tour.

Above ground, the monument encompasses a remnant old-growth coniferous forest. It harbors a fantastic array of plants, including a Douglas fir tree with the widest known girth in Oregon at 13 feet in diameter. Four hiking trails access this forest. The park also features a Civilian Conservation Corps-built landscape, ...More...
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