This substantiates what I have said that I don't think it is an
agency.
1. If they are getting the information off of geocaching.com then the
owners name would be listed and they could contact that person via e-mail
through geocaching.com to inform them of any problem.
2. Why would an agency be concerned with a "nano" that anyone not in
the loop would even find or see.
3. The approval for expenses printing the labels would have to come out
of some department budget and things being as tight as they are I don't
think this would be a priority.
Mel
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:49
PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Another
cache bites the dust
In the early days of geocaching down here in Tucson, several
geocaches were
placed in the National Parks around town before we all
understood the NPS
rules regarding caches and a park ranger who was also a
geocacher and had
visited many caches in the area was presumably "put in
charge" to remove any
caches that violated the NPS rules. I had the
impression that the ranger was
given the task by superiors. So I
wouldn't rule out an agency taking the
trouble to remove
geocaches.
BTW, I had a geocache down here at the base of Cat Mountain
off of Ajo road
which was on a side trail off the main trail from Sarasota
Blvd. The trail
had been maintained not long before one of my visits
to the cache, so I felt
that it was placed in an area that met all
requirements. So a week or two
after my last visit, I got an e-mail
from a city police officer who was in
charge of the Tucson Mountain Park
area saying that he had my geocache. It
turns out that the trail I
had found was a "wildcat trail" that he had been
trying to close to
preserve the area and someone had been maintaining the
trail against his
wishes. He placed a trail closed post were it left the
main trail
with his business card attached. I was happy to cooperate with
him
and he was very geocache friendly, offering to check out possible
placement sites in the area and in fact, I replaced the cache (with a new
name) less than half a mile away not far off the main trail where it still
sits today. So agencies will do what they need to and generally are
friendly
to work with (with a few notable exceptions), especially if you
follow the
rules and if you talk with them when in
doubt.
Jim.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, MEL HOCKWITT wrote:
>
I wonder is there is a contact on the sticker as to whom made it (print
> shop) I don't think this was done by a official agency but someone
who is
> against Geocaching. I agree that the cache is usually
hidden so someone
> must have the coordinates in order to find it,
don't think any agency would
> go to that trouble just to remove a
cache that is out of sight.
>
> Mel
I'm not normally a
religious man, but if you're up there, save me,
Superman! - Homer
Simpson
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Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary
Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
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