State Wildlife Areas

[amita17Participant]

This may have been suggested before, years ago, I think.  Now that we don’t have the Adopt-a-Highway section anymore, maybe the WGA could consider the DNR program to adopt a wildlife area?  I am not sure what it all entails, but I looked on the DNR website and found a bit of info, but not enough to sell the idea.  Does anyone know more about it?  Could it be a CITO opportunity for the WGA in future years?  Maybe the site we select could change from year to year?  Thoughts, anyone?

[HamFamParticipant]

I can’t see any reason why a CITO couldn’t take place at a wildlife area.  I love the idea of moving from location to location, I think that brings more people out to CITO, when it is new areas.  To anyone thinking of hosting a CITO, remember that the WGA will sponsor a portion of it.

I also think that this idea, and I see a lot of potential here, will have to come from a member.  Of course the BOD are always here to help, but have many other responsibilities as well.

Also, don’t feel overwhelmed if you have an idea but don’t have a means to bring it to life.  That’s the beauty of the forums we can put ideas out there, and maybe someone else is looking for a project, but their ideas are lacking.

Cache on my friends.

The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.

[rawevilParticipant]

amita17 wrote:

This may have been suggested before, years ago, I think. Now that we don’t have the Adopt-a-Highway section anymore, maybe the WGA could consider the DNR program to adopt a wildlife area? I am not sure what it all entails, but I looked on the DNR website and found a bit of info, but not enough to sell the idea. Does anyone know more about it? Could it be a CITO opportunity for the WGA in future years? Maybe the site we select could change from year to year? Thoughts, anyone?

Along with Renee, I am working on hopefully setting up a CITO in the Northern Kettle Moraine Unit this season. You must be funneling our thoughts 🙂

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

[Trekkin and BirdinParticipant]

One of the most satisfying CITOs we’ve done was one in a SWA in Iowa that had been thoroughly trashed.  I usually pick up bits and pieces of stuff when I’m wandering, whether I’m caching or lately…birding.  It bugs me in a way that we clean up after folks who aren’t environmentally conscious, but if no one does. the problem gets worse.

I kind of wish the whole CITO souvenir phenomenon would go away, though. Yes, the time period is longer for those now, but shouldn’t people want to do this, souvenir or not?  (I’m exercising my right as a cranky old lady here!  😉

While it would be great to arrange something like this, we aren’t up to that task at the moment.  But I think it’s a great thought.  Also, when the floodwaters recede, any of the parks along our swollen rivers will likely be ripe for cleaning, and most of that won’t be because people didn’t clean up after themselves.

This is a link to the event we attended.  A key aspect of one like that was arranging to waive the “dump fee” in exchange for cleaning it up and hauling it out, which the cache owners managed to do.  More than one trailer was needed, too.

 

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC45RCP_twin-elms-needs-some-geo-tlc

[rawevilParticipant]

Why do people always dump tires? Grrrr . . . .

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

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