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Thats right. There has never been a geocache IN that park and only one VC
that I could find, archived or otherwise. Those caches i listed in a
previous post is all that i could find. (disclaimer. there may have been
one that i didnt see tho) I have NOT searched for letterboxes there.
Durn park peoples...
At 05:30 PM 4/2/2004, Mike Bollinger wrote:
- NPR Radio did a story on Geocaching last year and interviewed a NPS Staff person at the Badlands. In the story the ranger LIED and said that there were buried Geocache a in sensitive archeological area. He was critical of Geocaching. I was out that way in May about a month after the story and all the caches were virtual. NPS doesn't even allow physical caches. Obviously the staff there have a vendetta against caching to the extent that they would lie about it.
Here's the story from last year. http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1246751
-----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dana cook Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:49 AM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] geocaching gets negative press
- In this month's edition of National Geographic there is an article about
Badlands National Park. A significant portion of the article pertains to the number of fossils contained in the park and the problem of looting.
The author interviewed the park paleontologist, Rachel Benton, who had this to say:
"Besides outright theft, now we have to worry about geo-caching," says Lopez.
The article continues:
"In this latest twist to a treasure hunt, people hide a container and perhaps a trinket, take GPS coordinates, and put the coordinates on the internet. Other people go to the location and try to find the cache. Although a treasure hunt may seem a nuisance at worst, and can have the positive effect of getting people out in nature, Lopez warns of an escalation: Some geo-cachers are finding fossils in park rocks and putting these coordinates on the Web. Anyone can then come to look--or to take."
Any thoughts? Not the most positive national exposure our beloved hobby/sport could have, huh?
Dana Soldiers of Fortune
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