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ck
Past MnGCA Board
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
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Location: Mankato, MN
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 Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: US Fish and Wildlife guidelines? |
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We were in the Sand Dunes searching for a Doctom cache and instead found a warning notice from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It said "see Geocaching.com for NWR violation." It was written on 3-2-04 at 2:30 in the afternoon along the banks of the St. Francis river. What jurisdiction would the USFWS have over this area? Is the St. Francis river a "scenic and wild river"? Have we had any relations with these guys?
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Pear Head
Past MnGCA President
Joined: 04 Apr 2004
Posts: 5597
Location: north of Duluth
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: US Fish and Wildlife guidelines? |
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| We were in the Sand Dunes searching for a Doctom cache and instead found a warning notice from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It said "see Geocaching.com for NWR violation." It was written on 3-2-04 at 2:30 in the afternoon along the banks of the St. Francis river. What jurisdiction would the USFWS have over this area? Is the St. Francis river a "scenic and wild river"? Have we had any relations with these guys? |
The sign is correct. It took a little research to find this. You were obviously searching for GC1BB...
The cache area falls under the Sherburne NWR, managed by the Fish & Wildlife Service. A good map of the refuge is here. The hard part was finding where on the NWR map the cache was, since the Mapquest map from Geocaching wasn't much help. Turns out the cache is located on the river, south of Cty Rd 4, between Cty Rd 1 and Cty Rd 15.
I will also post a note on the cache page referring to this thread. |
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King Boreas
Geocacher
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
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Location: Exploring Minnesota
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mtn-man
Geocacher
Joined: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 70
Location: Not in MN. . . well, sometimes
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's a shame. Topozone still shows this area as Sand Dunes State Forest. Based on your note Pear Head, I have archived the cache. Well, that and the cache is gone. 
As I said, it is a shame to see an old cache like that go.
That cache is so old that it was approved by Jeremy.
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kleiner
Geocacher
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
Posts: 43
Location: Zimmerman(greater Elk River)
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| That one had been there for a long time. I checked in on it quite a few times. Some of the history that went along with it included the times it got picked up by game hunters, taken home and then returned. The owner even temporarily archived it with the note that he would return in the spring to re-set it up. In the meantime a cacher went out to just look at the spot and re-found it as it had been returned by a non-member. Also sometimes I took ammunition out of the container. CK left the note here this weekend as he was up for a visit. It's just a friendly reminder that they took the cache and no further action would be needed. No one signed it, however it is from a numbered pad of tickets. JK |
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