[GeoStL] Re: W. Tyson County Park Ranger
- From: Paul Konopacki <konopapw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:15:16 -0500
I nominate RGS as the
'SLAGA Ambassador of Goodwill'
RGS has a habit of running into people
who might take a negative stance against
geocaching and turn the situation into a
positive encounter.
I am really glad to hear about this!
GC-RGS wrote:
> As I was coming back from my check on 3's Company cache at W. Tyson, I ran
> into the ranger there. He was very nice and we had a good talk. I asked him if
> he was familiar with GC and he said he was. He said he owns a GPS and has
> found "Tyson Cache D&G" and "W. Tyson 1". His only concern was W. Tyson 1 (now
> archived but as a letterbox) and all of the rocks and moss that was disturbed
> while looking for the cache (or letterbox). I told him that cache had been
> archived and he was glad of that. I didn't realize though that it was now a
> letterbox. I asked him how he felt about placing caches here and his concerns.
> He said he has no problem as long as nothing "delicate" or historic is
> disturbed. He understands that nothing gets buried and visits GC.Com
> occasionally. I also asked if he would like to know when or where one is
> placed and he said "no, just don't start putting a bunch in one area". He said
> they do not want any new trails in the park and want to keep everything remote
> but they are having problems with bikes and horses creating new trails as they
> ride in groups. I asked the obvious question about hikers/cachers going off
> trail. His answer really surprised me. He said the park is for the public and
> we can, and should, go where ever we want to discover new areas. Since we are
> normally all going different directions, creating new trails isn't a
> problem. He is on the Park Resources board with other rangers from the County
> Parks. They were discussing future plans and activities and one of the other
> rangers mentioned geocaching. He joined in and wanted to know how the County
> Parks were handling caching in general. He said no one had thought about it
> nor had any recommendations so the subject was dropped and not discussed any
> more. He said he felt that was good because we are policing ourselves and not
> causing any problems or concerns. I gave him a SLAGA card and told him if
> anyone had any problems or concerns with caches in the County Parks, to send
> an email to info@xxxxxxxxxx and someone in our group would see that the cache
> owner was notified of the problem. I don't know if he has a GC ID for access
> to sending emails through the profiles. Before I left he showed me some
> pictures he took of 4 trail markers left by the Indians? I can't remember the
> word he used to describe them, but each is a pile of rocks about 3-4' square
> and about 6' high. He said it might be neat to incorporate those as waypoints
> to a cache, but wouldn't want anyone removing the rocks to look for a
> cache. All in all, pretty productive. Rich
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