[GeoStL] Re: County parks
- From: Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:33:06 -0800 (PST)
-
Way to Go Rich....sounds like a great idea and more
good public relations.
Dan (Thunder)
--- Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> most excellent, you smooth talker you.
>
> gln
>
> At 11:05 AM 11/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >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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>
> >
>
> ~~~~~~~~
> Glenn
> St. Louis, Mo
>
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