A question for our Ambassador:
I'm not sure that John Negroponte is a Geocacher.
Is there a global (Arizona) policy of "No Caches in Wilderness Areas?"
There's no global policy because there's no global agency that would make
it. I do know that Tonto NF, who are probably the strongest supporters
Geocaching has within Arizona land management, forbid caches in all
designated wilderness areas within the Forest, not just the Superstition WA.
Since the USFS policy seems to be that there should be no man-made objects
in designated wilderness areas, it seems safe to assume that they would
consider physical caches to be in violation of that restriction. So I would
think the policy is national for USFS designated wilderness areas.
What I don't know is if there are any other agencies besides USFS and NPS
that can designate wilderness areas. NPS is moot of course, since caches are
banned on all NPS land.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena
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