| Letterboxing (and caching) Safely During Hunting Season |
 I found this great article written by another cacher to the south of us.....
Letterboxing (and caching) Safely During Hunting Season (By Baker63)
I looked at the calendar and realized that it was the opening of the northern zone of big game hunting season here in New York State this Saturday. My son wanted to go hiking tomorrow, but I told him no not on opening day.
Now if you still want to go letterboxing or geocaching, here are some recommendations. Please remember that hunters have equal access to public lands as you do:
1- Know what the hunting season is. You really should think twice about going out on opening day, or on big holidays.
2- Many hunters will hunt in the early morning and the later afternoon. Not all, but many. So going out at noontime would be a better time to go.
3- Wear hunters orange. Wear a coat or vest and a hat.
4- Geocache or letterbox at preserves that do not allow hunters. Many areas have these as nature or wildlife refuges.
5- Most importantly, go online and check out the recommendations on your state’s or country’s hunting safety recommendations. They vary from state to state and country to country.
Do Not wear tan, brown, white or light colors.
I was hunting deer with a bow a few years ago and hiked into my stand before daybreak and was all set up. I was wearing camouflaged everything (Bow is different than rifle hunting). Now at dawn, I saw a hunter walking down the path, about 75 feet away. I waved my camouflaged gloved hand, but he couldn’t see me. I took my glove off and waved, he froze and started to get his bow in a ready position. I know this man and he is a safe hunter and he did not draw or even bring the bow around, but he saw something white, my hand and stopped and was looking. I reached in my coat and took out a small flashlight and blinked so he knew what I was. This is important. What he mistook my hand for was the tail of a deer, or flag when deer raise their tail. That is why it is important to NOT WEAR white or any light colors. Dark colors other than tan or brown and wear hunters orange, hunters orange hunters orange is what you should wear!
I really don’t want to give hunters a bad name, as I am one. It is all about safety and with all the different outdoor activates that go on, we just need to be safe. Please use common sense. |
· parker2 on November 08 2009 13:10:59 ·
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| TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup |
 Picking up the pieces: 1,000 shorelines and counting to be cleaned
during TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
Canadians continue to register in record
numbers for the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (TD GCSC) with more than 1,000
unique shorelines in communities across Canada already set to benefit from a cleanup this
September. The TD GCSC is a national conservation initiative dedicated to removing harmful
litter from shorelines including ponds, streams, rivers, lakes and oceans and runs from
September 19-27, 2009. To date more than 40,000 Canadians are expected to cleanup
shorelines at over 1,050 sites.
“Participation in our shoreline cleanup has been growing by 20 per cent annually and in
September we expect 75,000 volunteers will remove litter from more than 2,000 kilometres of
shoreline,” said Mary Desjardins, Executive Director, TD Friends of the Environment
Foundation. “Despite our efforts, wherever water meets land is where you’ll find garbage.
Shorelines suffer from the actions of others and that’s why we’ll likely recover over 150,000
kilograms of garbage this year.”
“Canada is home to the world’s largest freshwater supply. And plastic debris found floating in
our waterways and on our shorelines can be fatal to marine life through ingestion or strangling,”
said Dr. John Nightingale, President, Vancouver Aquarium. “Thanks to the growing support our
cleanup receives from Canadians, when we all work together, we can ensure the health and
welfare of our wildlife, plants and other marine life.”
“When you factor in the possible impact of local garbage strikes on beaches, the monumental
task of removing litter from Canada’s shorelines may be facing its greatest challenge. The good
news is our shoreline cleanup is well on its way to another record-setting year,” adds
Desjardins.
Not registered yet?
Join the thousands of Canadians who will be participating in this year’s cleanup in a number of
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- Volunteer as a Site Coordinator and lead a cleanup in your community. Register online at
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- Subscribe to the new TD GCSC e-newsletter at www.tdgcsc.ca/connect for the latest
cleanup news
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an official TD GCSC banner or avatar as well as site coordinator and participant “badges”
About the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
TD Bank Financial Group has been a proud sponsor of the TD Great Canadian Shoreline
Cleanup, a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program, through its TD Friends of the
Environment Foundation for more than 13 years. The TD GCSC began in 1994 as a small
beach cleanup with a handful of employees from the Vancouver Aquarium who wanted to
participate in the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. In 2008, a recordbreaking
63,491 Canadians registered for the national cleanup and removed 135,467 kilograms
of garbage from 1,531 sites spanning a collective distance of 2,152 kilometres. Now in its 16th
year, this year’s TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup takes place from September 19-27,
2009. For more information or to register please visit www.tdgcsc.ca. |
· parker2 on August 24 2009 18:48:50
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| UPCOMMING TRESPASS LAW COMMING INTO EFFECT |
Here is the website with the full writing.
http://www.plea.org/freepubs/newspaper/20090109Trespass.htm
Basically.... if the land is fenced or bordered by a natural object (trees, river, etc.) you must have permission to be on that land. This can cause issues for geocaches that are in place as we speak. Even if the geocacher that had placed the cache had permission, every geocacher in search of the cache must have permission from the landowner as well.
From what I understand, if the authorities ask you if you have permission, and you say "NO"... you are automatically charged and there will be nothing we can do about it.
The law does have a exception set aside for people engaged in legal hunting, fishing, and trapping. These activities will still be under the old rule…. If it’s not posted…. It’s ok!
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· parker2 on March 03 2009 20:28:16
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| Intro To Geocaching - The Basics GC1MCK2 |
The Saskatchewan Geocaching Association has been asked to give a presentation at the Alice Turner Library to share Geocaching with the general public. The Library are calling the presentation "Geocaching For Outdoor Fun!" It will be a free presentation for the general public. We (Sask_girl & bennykidd) will take care of the main part of the presentation but are hoping all of you local Geocachers will come out to not only show support but also to aid in answering any questions that may come up. The presentation is supposed to be about 45 minutes followed by a question period. Hope that you all can make it.
The Alice Turner Library is located at 110 Nelson Road, across from St. Joseph's High School on Attridge Drive in Northeast Saskatoon. The presentation will begin at 7:00pm on February 23rd, 2009. |
· Sask_girl on March 03 2009 20:28:06
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| Web Site Upgrade |
| Over the next few weeks, The web site will be upgraded to allow for new fetures and increased security. Through this time, there might be a few outages to the site. I will try to keep the outages to the late evenings or early mornings. |
· parker2 on November 04 2008 21:13:08
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