"Bird House" Cache Attached to Tree

[+Crossfinders]

Is it considered OK to screw such a cache into a tree?

[+Team Taran]

Only if it's your tree or you have given the owner of the tree complete details of the way you plan to hide the cache and they have agreed. If the tree is on public property you should ask the land manager.

Team Taran

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Yup. If it is your tree or you have explicit permission.

 

Outside of that, nope!

 

You really would want to inform the reviewer the what/why/wheretofore of it, also.

[Keystone]

From the listing guidelines: "Caches that deface public or private property, whether a natural or man-made object, in order to provide a hiding place, a clue or a logging method" are off limits and are subject to being archived.

 

A good test: If you removed your cache, would there be any remaining evidence that the cache was ever there? Here, it sounds like a hole in a tree would be left behind.

[+mndvs737]

We did one of these caches one time that was done with permission of the land manager. I think the reason they were allowed to do it, is that there were lots of other functional birdhouses on the same land that were nailed/screwed into the trees.

 

I will say that the geocache birdhouse was over 100 feet from any functional birdhouse, greatly reducing the chance of searching a functional birdhouse, and upon a 2nd look, there was something "not quite right" about the birdhouse used for the geocache that made it obvious that was your target.

 

I think it all comes down to a LOT of communication between the cache owner, the land manager, and Groundspeak.