[GeoStL] Re: Saint charles county issues
- From: "Chris Binder" <cpbinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:15:18 -0500
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It's not like I have a big problem with it, but yes, I'm one to follow the
rules, and yes, I would ask the appropriate land managers. I still think
that before any of us should go out and start speaking to bigwigs about
geocaching and protocol that affects all of geocaching as a whole, we should
let the group know. That's the ONLY problem that I have. Now...it would be a
different story if it was about just 1 of pntball's caches that he was
asking about. But this new protocol affects the entire group of cachers with
caches in county parks. I'll be quiet now while I can still back out.
~Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Keiser" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Saint charles county issues
> -
> If the St Charles County Parks doesn't know who to contact about the
> caches and they've asked the caches to be disabled, then it sounds like
> they've never granted permission for any caches and they simply
> contacted one cache owner. For what it's worth, I think it's cool that
> pntball went and talked with them. How many of you have actually
> contacted land managers or just talked with them? And, I *don't* think
> he was required to bring in any other SLAGA members.
>
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 06:20 AM, Chris Binder wrote:
>
> > We should establish some sort of protocol that prevents one
> > single member to have a meeting with bigwigs over at parks.
> >
>
> No one in St. Charles is forced to join SLAGA or any other group. The
> geocaching website says 'get permission'. It doesn't say 'check to see
> if there is a group in your area and follow their protocol on talking
> with land managers'. From what has been stated it sounds like they
> contacted pntball. I think SLAGA is a fun neat group, but it's not a
> controlling 'government' or regulating body. Anyone in St. Charles
> could contact the park authorities outside of the SLAGA group. Even
> members can and do act outside of the SLAGA entity. So give pntball a
> break--it's not his fault.
>
> I'm betting that pntball had no clue that they were going to give him a
> list of rules. When I went to talk with Rockbridge State Park about
> hiding a cache, I had no clue that they were working on rules (which
> are now the State Park rules). I was a newbie cacher at the time and
> they asked my opinion on some of their rules (they wanted a six month
> limit on caches--I told them it would be nice to at least be able to
> have the cache available for all four seasons, which I'm happy to see
> they gave it a year time limit instead!). They even 'tested' a few of
> the rules with my caches in Rockbridge State Park ('Gans Creek Hike'
> and 'The Lost Survey Marker').
>
> And, by informing the group, pntball has now brought the information to
> SLAGA. It's time to deal with the information, not to kill the
> messenger.
>
> I totally respect and give thanks to all you who do work with the land
> managers. Good job.
>
>
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