Kaweah Oaks Preserve

[andrew.glzr]

Hello, I work at the Kaweah oaks Preserve. First off, I hope this thread is in the appropriate place. I have found a few geocaches and have found them quite creative. I would like very much to meet with local folks to discuss a few of our needs. To be clear, we are basically ok with the geocaching with a few exceptions. Recently, someone climbed a barbed wire fence. The wire was pushed down. We had a bull get out on 198 awhile back. I'm the lucky guy who got to wrangle it over the fence. Not easy, as I'm no cowboy. The other thing is we want any caches to be no more than 20 feet from the trail. We have had many, many marijuana gardens with rat poison and dead hawks and owls from eating the poison. We have cameras linked to the police department because of this ongoing problem.

Please know, I was an art major and the gnome cache was very, very creative. I'd like to put it back. We need to talk and we are ok with this continuing with some basic groundrules, nothing more. I am at the thursday farmers market in Visalia at our informational both for the Sequoia Riverlands Trust. We would love it if some of you with skills could help us document the gps coordinates of our oldest oaks. We could use the help and create a model for geocachers working with landowners. The preserve is in fact private property.

Andrew Glazier

[+Walts Hunting]

Bring up one of the caches in the park and start a conversation with the reviewer about what to do. You could also contact a couple of the cache owners and ask them to come in and talk to you about how to handle it.

[+niraD]

I tried to find a web site for a geocaching organization near you, but didn't come up with anything. However, here's a cache in the preserve, and it looks like it's owned by someone very familiar with the history of the property:

http://coord.info/GC4AR11

 

You can also search for other geocaches near it:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=36.338717&lng=-119.166533

 

You can contact the owners of any of those geocaches by clicking on the link for the owner's name on the geocache description page, and then clicking the link next to the E-Mail Address heading (which will either be their actual email address, or a "Send Message" link that allows you to send them a message through the geocaching.com web site).

[+mrreet]

Hello, I work at the Kaweah oaks Preserve. ... The preserve is in fact private property.

Andrew Glazier

 

I would recommend setting up a permit system like many of our local county parks have.

In the case of Wood co there is no fee to have a Geocache in the park(s) but you must fill out / submit a form yearly.

 

 

http://www.woodcountyparkdistrict.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116&Itemid=132

[+Touchstone]

Hello, I work at the Kaweah oaks Preserve. ... The preserve is in fact private property.

Andrew Glazier

 

I would recommend setting up a permit system like many of our local county parks have.

In the case of Wood co there is no fee to have a Geocache in the park(s) but you must fill out / submit a form yearly.

 

 

http://www.woodcountyparkdistrict.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116&Itemid=132

 

I would discourage that course of action. I believe education is the best route to take. Several County/Regional/State Park Authorities have done it this way in California, and it works pretty well. For the one park near me that does require a no fee permit, geocaching is, for all intensive purposes, dead. Lose, lose for everyone IMHO.

[+T.D.M.22]

 

I would discourage that course of action. I believe education is the best route to take. Several County/Regional/State Park Authorities have done it this way in California, and it works pretty well. For the one park near me that does require a no fee permit, geocaching is, for all intensive purposes, dead. Lose, lose for everyone IMHO.

 

Intents and purposes.

Edited April 8, 2014 by T.D.M.22

[+ByronForestPreserve]

 

I would discourage that course of action. I believe education is the best route to take. Several County/Regional/State Park Authorities have done it this way in California, and it works pretty well. For the one park near me that does require a no fee permit, geocaching is, for all intensive purposes, dead. Lose, lose for everyone IMHO.

 

One state park near me had zero caches, and I didn't know why until I saw that a permit was needed. The park ranger was super nice and just wanted to okay the location prior to placement. Took ten minutes. He had similar reasons, but mostly wanted to keep folks out of hunting areas and places they were doing restoration work. We should be talking to someone to get permission to place anyway, right? I don't think a permit is too harsh with good reason.