[GeoStL] Re: geocaching Digest V2 #237
- From: McEowen@xxxxxxx
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:20:49 EDT
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In a message dated 8/29/03 2:24:39 AM, ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< Nancy, I'm not sure if I can help--I just started working with the Mo
Dept of Conservation. From what the folks in the Central Missouri
region (columbia office) tell me, I have to contact each land manager
for each specific conservation area. Their website (
www.conservation.state.mo.us ) shows the regions broken down into
counties so it should be easy to figure out with region oversees which
county. I simply call the regional office and ask them for the contact
info for each land manager and then call them (sometimes a very hard
thing to find them in their office!!). They require you to fill out a
'Special Use Permit' and grant them on a case by case basis. So far I
have one permit, but haven't placed the cache yet. I have a few other
permits in the works. (red tape)
From what I could tell, they all seem to be aware of Geocaching and are
helpful, yet you can tell they are a little reserved about it. They
like getting people to their areas, but geocaching doesn't really fit
within their stated 'mission'. >>
Perhaps things have gotten stricter in the mid-Missouri area. When I placed
my Rural Missouri cache at Painted Rock Conservation Area I played phone tag
until I got the area supervisor at the Columbia Conservation office. He granted
me permission over the phone -- with the stipulation that I couldn't place it
anywhere that would put people in danger. Sorry, I don't remember his name.
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