[[Az-Geocaching] It's not as bad as we have been told]

[Mark Heitowit]

Brian:

Have you ever thought of being a reporter. With just one phone conversation,
it appears that you did more research than the Republic.  Of course you
probably could not get a job at the Republic, as truth and accuracy does not
sell papers.

Thanks for update.

Mark,
Magical Memories
Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> I just got off the from with a guy named Brad that is affiliated with
> the State trust land managment.  He is currently in possession of the
> "Sign from the past III" cache that was taken.
> The conversation that we had was very positive and he really likes the
> idea of geocaching and actually wants to promote it, to the point that
> he wished that he could donate money to geocaching.
> The only thing that he asks is that everyone gets a permit before
> entering the last (which we should already know) that they we don't put
> caches on archeology sites.  If caches are put on any archeolory site
> they will be confiscated and the owner will have a month to pick it up.
> He personally isn't pointing a finger at geocaching for any damage to
> the above site, since he doesn't know for sure that we did or would do
> any damage to any site.... (very cool!)
> For caches that might be put on an archeology site that we don't even
> know that it's an archeology site they will check things out and if it's
> just near a site and we aren't causeing any damage they will probably
> just leave it there, since it could be better to keep the site a secret
> than to let us know it exists by taking the cache.
> All in all, it sounds like the news paper blew things waaaaaay out of
> proportion and gave us a bad name in doing so.
> 
> Anyway, I just wanted to let people know of the situation in reality. 
> Plus he asked me to pass on their rules that they would like us to
> observe... so pretty much what it amounts to is caches as usual minus a
> couple of caches that point out some history, but all in all good news.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
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