Steve's comments, my comments
And we hope to be able to put together a starter list of permission contacts for those agencies where we have them.
Excellant idea. If anyone else has been working with any other agencies and has contact names/numbers please post these as well.
This seems like a good time to remind everyone of what we came up with after last year's meeting, which got dubbed "Geo-mentoring". If you own a cache, and get a log entry from someone who is relatively new (based on their find count), why not drop them a note welcoming them to Geocaching and letting them know about azgeocaching.com and the listserv? If anyone would like a copy of the boilerplate I use for this, drop me an email.
I'd like a copy Steve. I've e-mailed a lot of people welcoming them to geocaching and telling them about this mailing list and azgeocaching.com, offering at times suggestions for caches they might like. I'd like to see how you go about it.
What pleases me most about the above idea (which came from Mary Estes) is that it seems to indicate that most land managers no longer see Geocaching as merely a threat against the lands they manage (a sardonic "thanks again" to Christina Leonard of the "Republic" for originally provoking that attitude), but rather as an activity that with some exceptions does have a beneficial place on public lands.
I'm setting off the virtual fireworks in celebration. I think we know that many Arizona geocachers are responsible for this change in attitude. Thanks to all of you who have worked on that change.
Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
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
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