[Az-Geocaching] Thoughts on Reading the Weekly Cache Notification
Team Tierra Buena
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Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:14:59 -0700
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Is there anyway that the people that approve caches could not approve
these kind being placed in the wilderness?
It's not practical, unfortunately. We can't keep track of all the
different rules for all of the different agencies just in Arizona, and
we live here. Much less would they know, for instance, where one
agency's land ends and another begins. For instance, I challenge anyone
who has done the "McDowell Cache" in Scottsdale to tell me with
certainty whether it's on State Trust land or McDowell-Sonoran Land
Trust land. And, trust me, those two caching policies are very
different. And they would have to do it on a national, if not worldwide,
level. I think you can see the difficulty.
There have been requests voiced for local approvers, but the folks at
geocaching.com don't seem ready to go there. That doesn't surprise me.
If they start doing that, at that point they're probably taking on some
legal responsibility for the placement of caches that I wouldn't want if
I were running the show. They do, however, look for and disallow
physical caches placed without permission on National Park Service
property, but I can think of at least one instance where they
accidentally let one slip through.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena
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