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There supposedly a “Big Cat” hanging around a 5 mile area around my house. There have been sighting just east of me and just down the road south of me also. There were pics published in the Wisconsin Outdoor News a few months ago a Mountain lion taken with a trail cam in the Drummond area.

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I had a baby bear cub go up a tree about twenty yards in from of me and as I was driving home a very small fawn run out in front of me but rand back just as fast. It still had spots.
Two weeks ago the dogs and I found a a fawn has we headed for a cache. It was still there when we came back.

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Auto Draft. That seems to work the best.

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Congrats you 2!!! Have fun out West.

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Congrats to you both!

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@ecorangers wrote:

Thanks for asking bnb….I picked the wrong day to do cache maintenance! Actually, I got to maintain 10 caches until the “triple threat” went into effect all at once in Washington County: 1) tornado warning 2) flash flood warning and 3) Hail storm
I could have used another two hours to finish up with maintenance, BUT who would be out geocaching under these weather conditions?

Ummm, any normal red blooded geocachers,especially if a FTF was at stake, and we all know geocachers are not normal.

Glade to hear everyone is ok thou.

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@zuma wrote:

@emtcop wrote:

what about some where near Eau Claire that is Central to most of the state and there are lots of great parks in the area like Carson park just my ideas

Yep, good idea. We have had an event at Lake Wissota State Park, which is just north of Eau Claire, and it may be reasonable to return there at some point.

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OK, not trying to start any fights here. What about Lake Wissota? If it’s been 4 years, why not?

Flambeau River State Forest- Even thou this would be a great spot, there are very few caches in this area….I believe.

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@PCFrog wrote:

Flambeau River State Forest

I’ll second that one too!

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The Miss doesn’t fall under the Park Service does it? Does it have the National Scenic River way tag does it? Like the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers. I don’t think it does.

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I Just got permission to go! So I should be there.

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I got notifications of Bug Drops in 3 of caches tonight.

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OK, I lied, I am lurking in the background. But as much as some would like me to leave, I will always support the WGA organization and will try to make it the best organization it can be. I never said I was gonna leave. I just said I was going to leave this board as in this thread.

But you never know what could pop up some day.

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KUDOS to the Wisconsin Reviewers. Past and Present. It’s a thankless job. Good question as to how one gets chosen thou.

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@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Cheezehead,

I find it difficult to follow your argument. Since you began geocaching in 2004, the WGA held a Campout in Lake Wisota State Park and at Peninsula State Park, both are north of Highway 29 and you did not volunteer or participate in either one. Lake Wisota is barely 100 miles from Hayward. Yet, you say that we need to bring WGA sponsored events north of Hy 29 so that you can participate. Both of these events were well attended by geocachers from SE Wisconsin, 300 miles away. Since 2004 we have also held 2 events at Hartman Creek, about as far from Eau Clair as it is from Milwaukee.

One object of holding WGA sponsored events at one location or another is to inconvience as few of our members as we can.

BTW Your WGA membership is free because operating costs are paid from the donations of those who do attend these events. We want to keep attendance as high as we can for the financial health of the WGA.

If a WGA picnic or campout is held in Superior or Beloit, Trudy & I will be there. We will support the decision of the WGA for any location that is selected. And we would expect a similar effort from all that wish to see this organization prosper.

I did not start geocaching until July 2, 2006, so sorry, I couldn’t help at the 2004 event. Ok, I have 2o people that will help with and event. I’. jumping up and down waving my hand to get the BOD attention that maybe an event could be help up here. If the picnic /campout was held in Eau Claire I would be there to do whatever need to be done.

1st question, how many locals helped set up the latest camping event? Where there 20?
2nd question. How many BOD’s have to be in attendance for it to be a WGA event.
3rd question, why wasn’t a news letter/email sent out asking where the event should be held cuz its for the “member” but half of the WGA members are never here, so what good does it do to ask here.
4th question, how many more geocachers are there in the state than there was in 2004? I know of 10 just in the Hayward area.

How do you get more people from the sticks to join the WGA, Have an event. I meet someone last week that’s been caching for 4 years and never heard of the WGA.

Why even go through the motion of asking where an event is going to be held? The BOD of the South East are going to make sure are going to vote to have it where they want anyways.

The WGA is suppose to represent all of Wisconsin, but it hardly does if at all. And no, it’s not sour grapes over not getting elected to the BOD. I was surprised I got 30 votes

You want dues, I’ll pay an annual dues if that’s what it takes to get something north of Eau Claire. Eau Claire is still a 2 hr drive from Hayward. Heck I’d drive the 3 hrs to Rhinelander or Eagle River to an outing. I’m not asking for an event to be in Hayward but somewhere in Northern Wisconsin(and Sorry Eau Claire is not northern Wi.) but for the other who have an extra hour to an hour and a half drive that live north of me. At $4 a gallon ,I would think that everyone would think twice
going anywhere more than 30 miles from there home

So lets say that I’m going to throw a picnic here in Hayward near the end of August. What do I have to do to make it a WGA picnic. I might get Zuma up here. So is it now a WGA event cuz I have a BOD in attendance?
You can bash me all you want now because it doesn’t matter, cuz this will probably be my last time to this board cuz it doesn’t concern me anymore. I just hope it snows.

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@GrouseTales wrote:

The problem is folks, we get very little help when organizing the events. It is the same core group of people that drive across the state to hide temps and scout parks. We need LOCAL help.

I would love to have the campout in St Croix. We would need about 20 LOCAL volunteers to make it possible. We ask for locals, and we only get 1 or 2. We appreciate the help, but we need much more help then that.

I simply cannot support an event on the other part of the state, when chances are, we will have the same handful of people helping out from the opposite end.

There is a theme here folks..

How do you know if you don’t ask!?!? A first time event up here could have people lining up to help. So you mentioned the Masses…..Are the Masses helping set up? Don’t sound like it. If I were to hold a picnic up here, would I get any help from down south? Same answer for an event in the south. What if you were in my shoes. how would you feel then.

You will have no idea what kind of response you will get if you don’t ask or say where are going to have an event “here”. Where ever here might be.

So ya want local help, but the locals are not part of the WGA, how do you get them to become a member? Maybe have a membership deive at the event!

So Brian, you have made it clear that there you will never support an event in North part of the state. Is that correct?

would love to have the campout in St Croix. We would need about 20 LOCAL volunteers to make it possible. We ask for locals, and we only get 1 or 2. We appreciate the help, but we need much more help then that.

When have you asked for help in the St. Croix area? When have you asked for help in the Superior or Hurley areas?

What a bunch horse pucky……

What away to represent the whole state. Maybe all the people north of HWY 29 should have the title of friend of the WGA ( or probably in my case. enemy combatant.)

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