One thing I have learned in my many years in Law Enforcement is that the "crap" rolls down hill and everyone is told to do something by someone else just above them. So the way I see it, is that everyone is trying to deal with the DNR by following the chain of command to the top of the DNR and we are not getting anywhere. Well, only God doesn't have a boss or someone telling him what to do and if whomever heads or is the top dog of the DNR has it in his mind to squash geocaching, the simplest soulution, is.............politics. Yep, I hate it too, but to get anywhere in government you have to play politics. So let's not deal with the DNR anymore but the ones who control the DNR, and if necessary their boss, etc. Ultimatley, go over their head until we get what we want. It's amazing what happens when you call in a political favor behind the scenes and no one even knows whats going on, but you call in that favor and that person makes a few calls and the next thing you know, the head of the DNR goes home unhappy because he does what he is told if he still wants to bring food home to the table. The DNR doesn't care one bit about if they are making money as long as his boss doesn't care, so we make them care, by making an issue not weather or not the DNR makes any money, but weather the head of the DNR makes his money (pay check) or not.
I will check with some of my political contacts and see if we can't put some pressure on his pay check and get some things changed. The key is to have the right political favor to call in. So I will do my best to make some magic happen, but if anyone else has any political ties, try yours too. I don't think that if "we" the taxpayers grouped together to call in or write that they would make a difference, it's only going to happen with political favors, so if you don't have any connections it probably won't do any good just to contact your representative freely.
Wish me luck and hope I have the right favors to call in.
