[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I’m sure most of the job is done by this point, but if any help is needed please let me know. I’m a resident of Kenosha, and might be able to lend a local hand.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Here is a copy of of his return email.

Hello Jay,
Please send me your mailing address and I can mail you a map of the property with areas proposed for prescribed burning this year shaded in.

The last of our burns should be done in the beginning of June.

Whether or not a unit can be burned on any specific day is determined by wind speed and direction, humidity and personnel available that day,

It is common that 2-3 potential units could be burned on any given day and is decided only on the morning of the actual burn due to fluctuating weather conditions. Sometimes a burn is completed early and weather conditions will be right to get a small secondary burn done.

Richard Bong State Recreation Area does not notify cache owners about prescribed burn activities. The geocachers that I communicate with here at the park have been aware that we burn during the spring time and will ask me for information about areas to be burned that season as you are doing at this time. We then inform them or give them a map. The cache owners can then remove their cache if they feel it is at risk.

The cache submission forms are turned into the park when they are created. We do not go through the forms to correlate locations with potential burn units. We have many forms from many years. Cache owners will rarely (two people in six years in my immediate experience) tell me that a cache has been removed.

If a person has caches on any DNR lands in the Spring, they should contact property managers of those locations as you have to get a map of proposed burn units. Proposed burn units are hopefully scheduled as early as January of that year, but depending on state locations and personnel, the plans could be known only as late as March and April. The property managers should be able to tell cache owners if an area might be burned
based on their knowledge of their property – regardless if the actual specific prescription is written. For example, I generally know that Unit XYZ will not be burned this year since it burned well the previous year.

I apologize if any caches were lost due to the burns. My brother-in-law is very big into geocaching and has caches here on the property. I personally feel that geocaching is a great activity because it gets people off trails and into the field for a more personal and tactile experience with the environment.

Since you are a member of WGA, would you be interested in contacting us each year in February to get a map of potential proposed burn units and relay that information to people with caches on Richard Bong? I think it would be a great thing if a geocacher took responsibility for putting out the information on the WGA website so that anyone could access it and know ahead of time -especially if they forget that we burn every spring out here.

Thanks for any help you can give us.

John R. Meyer
Park Manager
Richard Bong State Recreation Area
26313 Burlington Road
Kansasville, WI 53139
Phone 262-878-5606
Fax 262-878-5615
e-mail [email protected]

I have agreed to take on this responsibility with the Park in the future.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I contacted John Meyer, the park Manager, to ask about any further burns they may have, and also if cache owners have been contacted. I’ll post when I have any further info.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Welcome to the WGA!

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@seldom|seen wrote:

@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:

Smile, it’s a beautiful day. How about getting out and trying some caching??? 😀 😀 😀

Maybe that’s the best I can hope for and maybe it’s enough to get reasonable, likable, decent cachers

Reasonable, likable, decent cachers. It wasn’t that long ago that we ALL were just that. What happened??? And what happened to respectable?

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

My 2¢

I campaigned hard for Obama, mainly because I wanted this reform. However, and as usual from both major political parties, this is not what we asked for. This bill, in this form, is Bullshwag. It helps a lot of Americans, but it hurts just as many or more.

What is the right way to do it? It’s not for me to decide, I just know that this isn’t it.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Thank you all for your kind words. I’ve been passing them along to the whole family.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Bubba: Soldier, Father, Hero, Protector, Friend

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Wow this topic and several other related ones of recent, seems to really be getting personal to so many people. Is the WGA turning into GONIL? Let’s hope not.

Geocaching should be a fun sport. It used to be. But lately it’s filled with politics, bashing, complaining and a lot of BS. Yeah, I said it because no one else has.

I’m not putting any single person or group down. I’d just ask that everyone at the WGA take a step back, take a deep breath and try to make this sport their own. Do what you like to do, they way you want to do it (within the guidelines) while doing your best to respect the wishes of other cachers. It’s really not that hard folks.

Smile, it’s a beautiful day. How about getting out and trying some caching??? 😀 😀 😀

Flame away, I can take it.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

That soldier was Robert Michael Rieckhoff. He is my nephew. We burried him yeasterday with honors at Sunset Ridge in Kenosha. Bubba was a hero that died for his country, and all of us. He will be sorely missed. RIP

I’m very sorry for your loss as well ES

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@zoesbrother wrote:

@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:

Just to clarify, I wasn’t putting down any design ideas that have been posted. I like the compass rose ideas. I buy the new one every year(oakcoins?), but even those ideas are running dry. Seems like the older ones are better than the new.

I was only mentioning it because there are so many compass rose coins out already, and I’ve always wondered why no one ever minted a working compass coin. I’ve seen plenty of coins with moving parts in the past two years, and I don’t see how magnetizing a needle and mounting it would be all that difficult. Just surprised nobody thought of it before me. 🙂

There may be a way to take an existing small compass and insert it into a coin. This would most likely work best, be the easiest to design, and end up being the least expensive option as well.

Actually there is such a coin out there and its the 5th Anniversary Compass Rose Geocoin.

Guess I stopped collecting geocoins too soon. 😆

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Just to clarify, I wasn’t putting down any design ideas that have been posted. I like the compass rose ideas. I buy the new one every year(oakcoins?), but even those ideas are running dry. Seems like the older ones are better than the new.

I was only mentioning it because there are so many compass rose coins out already, and I’ve always wondered why no one ever minted a working compass coin. I’ve seen plenty of coins with moving parts in the past two years, and I don’t see how magnetizing a needle and mounting it would be all that difficult. Just surprised nobody thought of it before me. 🙂

There may be a way to take an existing small compass and insert it into a coin. This would most likely work best, be the easiest to design, and end up being the least expensive option as well.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

If anyone wants to fly with this idea, please do. I have the idea, maybe the talent 😀 but not the time.

I see compass rose designs all the time, I’d love to see a coin that actually had a compass in it. Even a clear window compass would be better. I’m not sure what the cost differential would be or if it would make the venture less profitable. I personally would pay more for a functional coin.

There’s the idea if anyone wants it.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Welcome BSA! My son is excited about geocaching being added as a merit badge. He is a Patrol Leader in the local BSA Troop 507 and can’t wait to earn his badge. Welcome to the WGA.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Please keep the ideas coming. There have been some very good entries so far, but we’d love to see many more. Get those pens, pencils and crayons moving!!! 😀

Good luck to everyone.

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