- I have to agree that this is a real concern for the official side of me (I work for JC Parks & Rec) too. The solution to this is VERY simple. It requires leaving a useful hint on the cache page. I have done so many caches that the hint is useless and you are left to "leaving no stone unturned" to find the cache. I keep an eye out on what's going on and have from time to time asked hiders to make their hint more specific. I'm not trying to be critical, heck, I've done that too. I try to be cute/funny/obscure with the hint and it dosn't help (ie...3 Bucks Cache). If you find a cache area that is getting disrupted, you might email the owner to make the hint more specific. Jjbusk2@xxxxxx wrote:- Hello all. Although I seldom have anything to say here, I read what everyone else says. Recently I did a few caches. I was disturbed at the condition of the cache area. It looked like some hundred lb. turkeys were in the area. In one area big slabs of rocks were pulled out and turned over. Some were pushed down the hill. Another area the rocks were pulled out from under a man made object and left laying around. I feel that some of the people who give us permission to hide caches would deny us this privilege if they would see the havoc some of us have left behind . I know that talking to the people who frequent this e-mail site is like preaching to the choir. What to do? I am sure that some of you people can come up with better ideas. My thought is to stress on EVERY cache page that everyone leaves the cache area in as natural a condition as possible. What are your thoughts? Believe me I am not a "tree hugger". But I do think this problem needs to be addressed as our ranks swell. John (Talks Funny) **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field