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
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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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