[SonsofThunder]

I called Dick Rideout (who is the state of Wisconsin Urban Forestry Coordinator) today about the Wisconsin Big Tree Society. He basically said that the society has been inactive for a few years. He sounded very interested in getting help generating GPS coordinates for these trees and finding new trees to list on the registry. He gave me the name of his assistant who is in charge of maintaining the registry. I talked to him a little about geocaching and what type of people are involved with this sport/hobby. I am sending him links to the http://www.geocaching.com and http://www.wi-geochaching.com web sites.

He stated that, coincidently, he had a meeting scheduled this afternoon to discuss updating the DNR database and they were already planning to add columns for the GPS coodinates.

I expliained to him that for many of us,part of the fun of the sport is in logging our finds. We discussed briefly a way for us to log and credit tree finds but it will take some more ideas and thinking to figure out the best way to make that work.

It seems that this may well be something that can add another dimention to our hobby and I for one would actively look for these trees and forward the coordinates to the DNR even if I do not get any kind of credit for it.

I would like to hear some more thoughts from others about this.

Kenn

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