[Az-Geocaching] McDowell Sonoran Preserve
gale and mike
listserv@azgeocaching.com
Fri, 04 Apr 2003 05:05:29 +0000
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<P>I hope this doesn't set a precedent of refusals by various land agencies.<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#6633cc>Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes<BR> On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:<BR>"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --<BR> "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#6633cc>Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Team Tierra Buena" <TEAMTIERRABUENA@EARTHLINK.NET>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
<DIV></DIV>>To: "Arizona Geocaching" <AZ-GEOCACHING@LISTSERV.AZGEOCACHING.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] McDowell Sonoran Preserve
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:49:50 -0700
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<DIV></DIV>>At a regularly scheduled meeting of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve
<DIV></DIV>>Commission held earlier this evening, the Commissioners, by a voice
<DIV></DIV>>vote, denied a request to reconsider their policy prohibiting the
<DIV></DIV>>placement of Geocaches within the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. They agreed
<DIV></DIV>>to post a statement of their policy on the Preserve Commission web page
<DIV></DIV>>(http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/MSPreserve/default.asp).
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<DIV></DIV>>The Commissioners made it very clear that the first mandate of the
<DIV></DIV>>Preserve is preservation. The Commission is not going to allow any
<DIV></DIV>>activity which involves going off-trail. They are also quite open about
<DIV></DIV>>the fact that they are going to avoid setting any precedent that risks
<DIV></DIV>>opening a wider door in the future. By that reasoning, they hold that
<DIV></DIV>>even a cache that is right next to the trail is still off-trail. They
<DIV></DIV>>are also opposed to having any contemporary non-natural objects within
<DIV></DIV>>the preserve, except for those placed for such reasons as safety,
<DIV></DIV>>directions, etc. Those are their major reasons behind their denial of
<DIV></DIV>>reconsideration, as best as I am able to summarize them.
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<DIV></DIV>>I would urge any of you who have placed caches within the Preserve to
<DIV></DIV>>remove them soon. My best guess is that there will be a not very long
<DIV></DIV>>grace period before confiscation efforts begin.
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<DIV></DIV>>Steve
<DIV></DIV>>Team Tierra Buena
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