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