[GeoStL] Re: Benchmarks

One of the benefits of living in a rural area.  I too,
have begun searching for benchmarks.  My success rate
is anything but good.  Living in a large metropolitan
area, many of the benchmarks that are listed as being
recovered as recently as 1993 have become the victims
of urban sprawl.  Which raises the question of what
responsibility a developer or contractor has when
progress dictates that the land, road right of way,
and or edifice is altered.  
With a success ratio of approx. 10%, I must add that
when a benchmark is located under these conditions..
it sure gives one a feeling of accomplishment.  In
order to improve this ratio, I have set my sites on
areas outside of my local area.. looking towards area
that have not been subjected to the growth an
expansion of a metropolitan area. 

Rudy
Txsyank
--- Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Awfully quiet in here the last 2 days....so I
> thought
> I would throw out a subject....I took some time
> yesterday to hunt some benchmarks here in Rolla and
> I
> want to say that it was a very enjoyable experience.
> Reminded me of my "old surveying days".
> While
> it is not cache hunting I can recommend it highly to
> those of us who are not living in cache rich
> territory. The only caches within a 10 mile radius
> of
> my home are all my own and I am not allowed to hunt
> or
> find those. I have also found all the caches that I
> am
> able to hunt within a 30 mile radius so it leaves me
> with little to do short of driving to St. Louis or
> Springfield. But there are a lot of benchmarks
> within
> 10 miles of me and some of them have not been found
> or
> "recovered" in a very long time....As an
> example I recovered a benchmark yesterday that was
> set
> in 1949 and had never been recovered since....It was
> set vertically in a rock wall along the RR tracks
> and
> the water running over it had actually formed a
> calcium skin over the entire face.....talk about
> hidden :D....I am actually looking forward to
> looking
> for some more of these hidden treasures in the next
> few days, weeks as it gives me something to do when
> not caching.
> I am also going to contact the people here at the
> USGS
> and see if they still have forms to fill out for
> recovering benchmarks and if they do I may do our
> government a favor and turn in all the BMs that I
> recover and save our taxpayers some money....
> Just remember if you enjoy cache hunting for the joy
> of the hunt ...benchmarks are smaller than most
> caches
> and most were hidden long before "cache
> hunting" even became popular....quite a
> challenge.
> Well my two cents worth....now back to work 
> Have a great day 
> 
> Dan (thunder)
> 
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