It was primarily established to secure permanent protection for threatened caves in the western United States.
[2] Bylaws of the organization outline the following goals:[3] Several members of the Western Cave Conservancy received significant publicity in August 2012 following the discovery and analysis of a new family of spiders Trogloraptoridae.
Another professional paper was published in 2017 about using silicate speleothems as proxies for determining past climates; the site being at Pinnacles National Park in central California (Chemical Geology 449 (2017) 236–252 ).
The Western Cave Conservancy is incorporated in California as a nonprofit public benefit corporation.
[5] In 2007, the Western Cave Conservancy received the additional designation as a nonprofit public charity under section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Service.