RE: [Az-Geocaching] Who Manages What

Regan,

I'm glad I read your log before I replied. Maricopa County Parks are not
"national forest", as you wrote below (you had me going there for a couple
of minutes!).

I think what it comes down to is that it is illegal to enter a Maricopa
County Park for ANY reason without paying the "user fee". But the MCP
representative at the land management meeting last month did say that they
were planning to revise their policy to make it much more restrictive on the
placement of geocaches than it has been. That saddened me, because I thought
MCP's "two mile rule" was a great compromise.

Coincidentally, I got a private email today from someone who wrote me that
our "Grandma Sarah's Cache", which is in the McDowell Mountain Regional Park
(part of MCP), may be missing and that a ranger there told him "it better
not be there". But as of this morning, when I was checking it for something
else, their "old" policy is still on the web site
(http://www.maricopa.gov/parks/news/). What worries me now is that they may
have issued a new policy to the park staff, but haven't yet bothered to make
it available to the general public. I hope my fear is unfounded.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena





-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Regan L
Smith
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who Manages What



Hey Steve



I was told today by a Park Gestapo, see log for ARRGH!*^&$% that it is
ILLEGAL to geocache in the national forest, but was also told that if you
buy a pass it is ok to do whatever, in the same sentence....then he said yes
please tell them who you are and where you placed your geocache so they can
arrest you in impound your computer, that they just did this last month to a
geocacher......





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From: Team Tierra Buena <mailto:TeamTierraBuena@earthlink.net>

To: Arizona Geocaching <mailto:az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com>

Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:04 PM

Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Who Manages What



There's a front-page story today in my favorite <hack.kaff> newspaper, the
Arizona Republic, about crimes being committed on public lands (I'm rather
surprised they didn't include Geocaching in the article!). But in the
continuation of the article on page A28, there's a nice little map and chart
showing each of the federally managed recreation lands in the state and what
agency (USFS, NPS, BLM, FWS) manages each. This could be a handy-dandy
little reference when you're thinking about where to hide your next ammo
can.

I was able to find the article online but not the chart.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena