[MoGeo] Re: Hello
- From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:42:06 -0500
I strongly feel that this is a step in the right direction. With Scott Schulte
and Barb, I can't remember her last name, helping to write the policies for
most of the state, I feel we can have areas of accountability. It helps to have
a casche approver here in the state. It also helps to have a central site for
them to look at and get the contact info for a particular area. I would like to
see us add an area that has Geocaching organization contact information. Have a
list of people that the state agencies can contact in case of a misplaced cache
or other concerns. It's much easier for them to go to one website to get that
info than have to remember every local orgs website.
Good job on the site.. Lemme work on the logo...
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn
To: MGA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:58 PM
Subject: [MoGeo] Hello
Since we are starting to get a few listers here now I would like to say HI
and welcome to everyone that is here.
The propose of this list is mainly to discuss larger statewide types of
geocaching issues.
Some things I have been interested in are...
a.. Viewpoints of the land managers about their current land use plans and
how geocaching fits into their plans.
b.. How do park systems look at new activities like geocaching when they
start thinking about officially recognizing an activity.
c.. How geocaching is affecting their managed areas.
d.. What the geocaching community can do to improve the state of affairs
here.
Since this is a very small group at this time (just a few actually), I think
we can be a little looser with the format.
I guess by now most all of us have seen the Missouri Geocachers Assoc.
website. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=mga I think it is
going to be an important document in the future. I do not plan for it to
compete with any of the fine local websites but rather enhance some of the
information and provide a single place where land managers and other officials
can go to get the one-stop scoop on what is going on in Missouri.
I can imagine that if I were new to the area or was trying to do a little
digging on geocaching here it was a little confusing. We have a few local
groups but no one each with a site or two but no place for anyone to get some
general information.
The site lists the regions that have regulations and links to those regs. As
more and more land managers get into thinking about geocaching on their lands,
I think this will be a valuable resource for them as well as the geocacher
looking to place a cache.
The Missouri Geocachers site also lists how to get in contact with the states
local groups. There is also a bit of explanation of the Cache Rescue program.
It has already been used to save a few caches and to retrieve an abandoned
cache.
If there is anything that anyone would like to see there drop me a note.
I know that the link to the jeff city regs page quit working again. That is
a funny one. It works for a while then it quits. I replace it with the
identical link and it worked for a while then quit working . I'll keep working
on it. Ooops, i tried it just now... and it works again!! Funny stuff this
internet is. :-)
Thanks for tuning in, I hope we can make some sort of difference here.
Glenn
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Glenn
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