Brian G. – Buy_The_Tie

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I am curious if you can elaborate more on how to implement a “cleanup of disabled caches” policy. There are several caches in our area that have been disabled for a long time. I have emailed the owners but they do not respond. Adoption is always an option but I am not sure about what one needs to do “officially” to adopt a cache.

I do think the WGA needs to implement some type of policy to streamline these processes a little bit faster.

Don from AstroD-Team

[marc_54140]

Although I do not know many details, the Michigan group (MiGo?) has a listing of cachers who retreive lost or abandoned caches. Sounds like perhaps that fits the concept you are getting at.

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Originally posted by AstroD-Team:
I am curious if you can elaborate more on how to implement a “cleanup of disabled caches” policy. There are several caches in our area that have been disabled for a long time. I have emailed the owners but they do not respond. Adoption is always an option but I am not sure about what one needs to do “officially” to adopt a cache.

I do think the WGA needs to implement some type of policy to streamline these processes a little bit faster.

Don from AstroD-Team

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Don,

What I would propose for “Long Disabled Cache Cleanup” would go something like this:

1. All caches that have been disabled more than XX Months would get a friendly note posted to the cache page, along with a private e-mail asking about the status.

2. If the owner responds, a dialouge will continue to decide the fate of the cache. Repair, Adoption, Archive, or whatever.

3. If the owner does not respond within XX weeks, the cache would then be archived or adopted.

I would anticipate trying to conduct this type of clean-up quarterly, or possibly monthly.

Using this system, all a geocacher would have to do to adopt a long-disabled cache would be to post a note on the actual cache page that they are interested in adopting it. That way, if the owner does not respond, the person doing the cleanup would know to proceed with the adoption instead of the archive.

I don’t forsee the need for a hard-and-fast rule regards to this procedure. I believe that there should be as much flexability as possible to allow for unusual or extenuating circumstances.

With regards to adopting caches, usually the best way to go about that would be to contact one (or both) of the Wisconsin geocache reviewers for geocaching.com with what you would like to do. Then we would approach the cache owner on behalf of geocaching.com. Very often they are very happy to have the cache adopted or there is no response whatsoever. Then we would proceed to contact the folks at groundspeak to process the adoption.

The e-mail address for the two Wisconsin reviewers are:
[email protected] and
[email protected]

Edited for spelling.

[This message has been edited by Buy_The_Tie (edited 01-03-2006).]

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Originally posted by marc_54140:
Although I do not know many details, the Michigan group (MiGo?) has a listing of cachers who retreive lost or abandoned caches. Sounds like perhaps that fits the concept you are getting at.

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When I was first elected to the board a couple of years ago, “Cache Rescue” was one of the programs I wanted to impliment. I drew up a preliminary outline for the program and submitted it to the rest of the board.

The overall response from the rest of the board was that a formal progam was not necessary. “The message boards seem to be an OK way round up volunteers to help caches (cachers).”

So, the formal “Cache Rescue” program was not implimented. What I have found is that most WGA members tend to be very willing to help out, so I now agree that a formal program for cache rescue is probably not required.

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