SherwoodForest

oddly enough, all the caches placed by the Cleveland Metroparks are placed in camoflague-painted PVC tubing. so I think you'd be fine, just clearly mark it as a geocache, and don't place it anywhere that people would think that it's a bomb.. "You will kneel before her in her altar in the trees" - Tara MacLean, Let Her Feel The Rain

did anyone ever find a digitized version of the story? I never caught the paper, and it apparently never made the cut for the website. i had several people talk about the article to me, but want to see the actual article itself...

i am certainly glad that Cleveland Metroparks is supportive of GeoCaching, and I hope that they do put in a good word for us with other areas. But there is one thing I think we as Geocachers can do to help this situation. The recent move of the Ranger Pond Cache, and the archival of the Tinker's Creek Multi-Cache due to their placement (one too near a firing range(?)) and the other being placed in a environmentally sensitive area) got me thinking about this. I think that those placing the caches should talk with the governing area before placing their cache in a park. I know there is a lot of sentiment about it's public land therefore i can do what i want on it. Well, I can't completely disagree with that, but... the park districts are responsible for maintaining the land, and some have special projects/areas that they would like to keep even-lower impact, such as Brecksville Reservation with its tall-grass prairie and forest restorations. These are therefore places that I would not want to place/find a cache in. I am trying to scout a location to place a cache in Brecksville, one a little easier/less remote than the other two, but I would have never thought to place a cache without first talking to the Park District about their feelings on the placement of my cache. And, I was surprised when I talked with Carly at the kickoff session and asked her about how many of the caches in the Cleveland Metroparks were placed with some contact to the Park District. She knew of none... now i know there are different levels and maybe the naturalists may not know if the rangers or park managers were informed about a cache... oh well, enough soapboxing, I guess. I really enjoy geocaching, and I do think that all the different park districts out there might be more likely to allow caches if they were asked/consulted prior to placement [This message was edited by SherwoodForest on March 13, 2002 at 06:04 PM.]

i am certainly glad that Cleveland Metroparks is supportive of GeoCaching, and I hope that they do put in a good word for us with other areas. But there is one thing I think we as Geocachers can do to help this situation. The recent move of the Ranger Pond Cache, and the archival of the Tinker's Creek Multi-Cache due to their placement (one too near a firing range(?)) and the other being placed in a environmentally sensitive area) got me thinking about this. I think that those placing the caches should talk with the governing area before placing their cache in a park. I know there is a lot of sentiment about it's public land therefore i can do what i want on it. Well, I can't completely disagree with that, but... the park districts are responsible for maintaining the land, and some have special projects/areas that they would like to keep even-lower impact, such as Brecksville Reservation with its tall-grass prairie and forest restorations. These are therefore places that I would not want to place/find a cache in. I am trying to scout a location to place a cache in Brecksville, one a little easier/less remote than the other two, but I would have never thought to place a cache without first talking to the Park District about their feelings on the placement of my cache. And, I was surprised when I talked with Carly at the kickoff session and asked her about how many of the caches in the Cleveland Metroparks were placed with some contact to the Park District. She knew of none... now i know there are different levels and maybe the naturalists may not know if the rangers or park managers were informed about a cache... oh well, enough soapboxing, I guess. I really enjoy geocaching, and I do think that all the different park districts out there might be more likely to allow caches if they were asked/consulted prior to placement [This message was edited by SherwoodForest on March 13, 2002 at 06:04 PM.]

does anyone know why our thread here is appearing twice on the list? one with only the first 16 messages, and another with all those plus Zuckerruebensirup's concern about problems with the single quotes... '''

does anyone know why our thread here is appearing twice on the list? one with only the first 16 messages, and another with all those plus Zuckerruebensirup's concern about problems with the single quotes... '''