Question on Permission/permits for Dane county and Madison p

[cacheseekers]

I know there was a thread previously where the WISearchers were working with the park departments on getting some guidelines or change in permit requirements for placing a geocache. I’ve done a little searching on their webpages and haven’t found any information on procedures for getting permission. We recently did a cache in a Dane county part that has inside it, a copy of a permit for the cache. However we didn’t see any specific contact information on the sheet.

We’re interested in starting to place some caches locally around us and were wondering where we should go with our next step.

So far we’ve only ventured to place one physical cache on a friends property and another virtual. We’d like to expand our horizons

Nick

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of The Cacheseekers

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[Buy_The_Tie]

Here’s an excerpt from an E-mail of a fellow Dane County cacher:

“They were also very pleased that I did come in to get
a permit before the cache was placed. A person going in should already
have the exact coordinates for the location. Prior to getting permit
approval a ranger will actually check the location. There also is a $10
annual fee. It only took a couple days to be approved. I started by
talking to the rec’p. Tina. From there she introduced me to Darren
Marsh who is the interim director. In the end his is the name on the
permit however most of the permit process will be handled by another
staff member named Theresa. All of the staff were very helpful. It can
also be done via E-mail by sending directly to Darren Marsh. His
address : [email protected] Their address is 4318 Robertson
rd. Madison 53714. Phone # 246-3896″

“They want a copy of the permit in the cache and will do random park
searches. The main thing is protection of sensitive areas
of course. They are also aware of all the caches on park land in
non-compliance though I didn’t ask any questions so as not to fan any
flames. In general anyone going thru the permit process should have no
problems at all as again they were great to deal with. Hope this
helps.”

[This message has been edited by Buy_The_Tie (edited 09-12-2004).]

[Ms. WISearcher]

Yes, Tie shared with you the Dane County info…and they have been rather pleasant to work with. We have not heard back from Madison…it has been on my list to double check with a Madison city contact for some time now, but just haven’t. I know that Grousetales emailed them a long time ago and has not heard back from them…so as of right now there is no caching in City of Madison parks, but hopfully in the future there will be.

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