[GeoStL] County parks
- From: GC-RGS <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: GC-maillist <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:05:02 -0600
Last week I talked to Justin Hirsch who is the events coordinator for St. Louis
County Parks. I inquired about any problems placing caches in county parks and
told him I had talked to rangers at two different parks and they had no
problems. He had never heard of Geocaching, but has a GPS, and I explained the
process to him and gave him the GC.com website to review. He said it sounded
like a very reasonable use of the park land wanted to talk it over and would
get back with me.
I'm working on a cache at one of the parks and talked to the ranger there who
knew about geocaching and welcomed the caches in the park. I told him my idea
and the final cache would be an ammo box. He had concerns about that and
suggested I call Justin for the approval.
I just talked to Justin today and he said the county parks would welcome the
caches as long as ammo boxes are NOT used. Tupperware, micros, even tool boxes
are OK. Then, to my surprise, he suggested conducting a program in conjunction
with the Parks dept. on using a GPS and geocaching for the public. He wondered
where they could get enough GPS's for hands on use so that's where I put in a
plug for SLAGA and said we would be glad to participate.
It would probably be held at Queeny Park since they have the indoor center and
there are several caches already there. He said they are working on their
schedules now and would get back to me soon so we could set up something to fit
their schedule.
Rich
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