[Az-Geocaching] Another cache bites the dust

[MEL HOCKWITT]

This substantiates what I have said that I don't think it is an agency.
1. If they are getting the information off of geocaching.com then the owners name would be listed and they could contact that person via e-mail through geocaching.com to inform them of any problem.
2. Why would an agency be concerned with a "nano" that anyone not in the loop would even find or see.
3. The approval for expenses printing the labels would have to come out of some department budget and things being as tight as they are I don't think this would be a priority.

Mel 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Scotti<mailto:jscotti at pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU> 
  To: listserv at azgeocaching.com<mailto:listserv at azgeocaching.com> 
  Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Another cache bites the dust


  In the early days of geocaching down here in Tucson, several geocaches were 
  placed in the National Parks around town before we all understood the NPS 
  rules regarding caches and a park ranger who was also a geocacher and had 
  visited many caches in the area was presumably "put in charge" to remove any 
  caches that violated the NPS rules.  I had the impression that the ranger was 
  given the task by superiors.  So I wouldn't rule out an agency taking the 
  trouble to remove geocaches.

  BTW, I had a geocache down here at the base of Cat Mountain off of Ajo road 
  which was on a side trail off the main trail from Sarasota Blvd.  The trail 
  had been maintained not long before one of my visits to the cache, so I felt 
  that it was placed in an area that met all requirements.  So a week or two 
  after my last visit, I got an e-mail from a city police officer who was in 
  charge of the Tucson Mountain Park area saying that he had my geocache.  It 
  turns out that the trail I had found was a "wildcat trail" that he had been 
  trying to close to preserve the area and someone had been maintaining the 
  trail against his wishes.  He placed a trail closed post were it left the 
  main trail with his business card attached.  I was happy to cooperate with 
  him and he was very geocache friendly, offering to check out possible 
  placement sites in the area and in fact, I replaced the cache (with a new 
  name) less than half a mile away not far off the main trail where it still 
  sits today.  So agencies will do what they need to and generally are friendly 
  to work with (with a few notable exceptions), especially if you follow the 
  rules and if you talk with them when in doubt.

  Jim.

  On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, MEL HOCKWITT wrote:

  > I wonder is there is a contact on the sticker as to whom made it (print 
  > shop) I don't think this was done by a official agency but someone who is 
  > against Geocaching.  I agree that the cache is usually hidden so someone 
  > must have the coordinates in order to find it, don't think any agency would 
  > go to that trouble just to remove a cache that is out of sight.
  >
  > Mel

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  University of Arizona
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