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kbraband 22 years, 11 months ago.
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I’m jealous to see how well the Wisconsin geocaching group is organized. You’d think that was as many geocachers in St. Louis that we have, we’d be better organized. We don’t have meetings – just trying to get a discussion going about planning a picnic is like pulling teeth!
Anyway, I want to mention that one of our new geocaching members took it upon herself to discuss geocaching on some of the DNR property just outside of St. Louis with management. She wanted to place a cache there and decided to take the proper route and get permission. One of the rangers was already aware of geocaches on land under his jurisdiction because a co-worker had seen a news piece of geocaching and alerted him. He decided not to have the cache pulled, but is working on getting a form created so that caches can be ‘registered’. This way, they know where the cache is who put it there. Not so much to watch over it, but so that maintenance personnel will know what they are when they find them. I really want this form to be make available to everyone in electronic form and put on our web site (http://www.geostl.com).
This is really a drop in a bucket, since the ranger is only responsible for one of many pieces of goverment property in the area. I am hoping that this particular effort can be used as an example for other rangers to follow.
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Originally posted by hmf4:
What’s happening in Minnesota ???Minnesota state parks have banned geocaching. You can read more about it at the geocaching.com forums: http://opentopic.groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=7250954883&m=3900931925
This is an update to let WGA members know where things stand regarding our cooperation with the Wisconsin DNR.
At the August WGA picnic and hunt we held an informal meeting to discuss the draft of a policy we were asked to prepare by State Parks management. We revised the draft based on the comments of those who attended that meeting and their subsequent on-line follow-up. The draft policy was submitted to Sue Black of the DNR last week. She has a meeting this week with her state parks management team, and I anticipate that they will discuss the draft policy at that time. We will keep you informated let you know when we hear more.
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the process so far!
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