[GeoStL] Re: geocaching gets negative press
- From: "Mike Bollinger" <lazylightning7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:30:48 -0600
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NPR Radio did a story on Geocaching last year and interviewed a NPS
Staff person at the Badlands. In the story the ranger LIED and said
that there were buried Geocache a in sensitive archeological area. He
was critical of Geocaching. I was out that way in May about a month
after the story and all the caches were virtual. NPS doesn't even allow
physical caches. Obviously the staff there have a vendetta against
caching to the extent that they would lie about it.
Here's the story from last year.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1246751
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[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dana cook
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In this month's edition of National Geographic there is an article about
Badlands National Park. A significant portion of the article pertains to
the
number of fossils contained in the park and the problem of looting.
The author interviewed the park paleontologist, Rachel Benton, who had
this
to say:
"Besides outright theft, now we have to worry about geo-caching," says
Lopez.
The article continues:
"In this latest twist to a treasure hunt, people hide a container and
perhaps a trinket, take GPS coordinates, and put the coordinates on the
internet. Other people go to the location and try to find the cache.
Although a treasure hunt may seem a nuisance at worst, and can have the
positive effect of getting people out in nature, Lopez warns of an
escalation: Some geo-cachers are finding fossils in park rocks and
putting
these coordinates on the Web. Anyone can then come to look--or to take."
Any thoughts? Not the most positive national exposure our beloved
hobby/sport could have, huh?
Dana
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