Can we love a place too much?

When we went out to our cache “Trillium Trail” last month, we found what we thought was garlic mustard right along the trail. We checked with the DNR, and with their permission and instruction, we cleaned up quite a bit of the invasive plant just at the seed pods were starting to form. We couldn’t get it all, especially the little ones in the midst of the poison ivy.

We were chagrined to think that by us highlighting this favorite spot of our and bringing more people into the area to see it, we may have threatened the very thing that was special about the place, the trillium flowers. After researching the cycle of garlic mustard, though, we think the seeds were brought into the area pre-geocache, but we will be posting a notice on the cache page to take care before and after visiting the trail. We had even considered disabling the cache, but since other outdoors enthusiasts use the spot, it wouldn’t necessarily help to keep just cachers out.

Have you found that some spots maybe shouldn’t have caches in them because they may be “loved to death”?