In the April issue of National
Geographic, in an article about the Dakota Badlands, Geocaching gets a
mention. While not long or really hostile, I think the tone is a bit
negative, particularly at the beginning of the brief mention, where Mr. Lopez,
the chief ranger, associates theft and geocaching in the same
sentence.
Bill in Willcox
Below quoted from National
Geographic, April 2004 issue, pages 90 and 91. Article by John Eliot,
National Geographic Senior Writer
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"Besides outright theft, now we have
to worry about geo-caching," says Lopez. In this latest twist to a
treasure hunt, people hide a container and perhaps a trinket, take the GPS
coordinates, and put the coordinates on the Internet. Other people go to
the location and try to find the cache.
Although a treasure hunt may seem a
nuisance at worst, and can have the positive effect of getting people out in
nature, Lopez warns of an excalation: Some geo-cachers are finding fossils
in park rocks and putting the coordinates on the Web. Anyone can then come
to look -- and take.
"To us, a shovel is a
shovel."
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