+Roger Houston Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 There is so many wonderful nature places, that do receive high visitor traffic when in season. Unfortunately not everyone acts according to 'carry in / carry out', meaning you take everything with you, that you brought there. So you can find litter of all type of materials and sizes, tainting the full nature experience, potentially presenting a hazard to wildlife. Would it be possible to allow the creation of continous CITO Events in Geocaching.com for such places, lasting for several weeks during peak season? The CITO would request Geocachers to bring the good old trash bag and collect those cans, bottles, cigarette buds, paper, plastic etc.. Logging condition: Send a picture of the trash collected to the CITO event owner. That could help keeping your favourite beach or hiking trail cleaner. Any thoughts around that? Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 The best way to do this might be to hide a series of events, perhaps 1 every Saturday for a month or perhaps hide a traditional cache containing CITO bags. I don't think you'd be allowed to require a photo for people to log an event. Quote Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 A contious event is pretty contary to how events work. I agree with the previous poster: several CITOs and maybe some Traditionals big enough to hold trash bags for finders to use. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) I've seen caches placed in littered areas and filled with trash bags. In the days when ALRs were allowed, some of the caches required a photo of you with a full trash bag in order to log it. You can't have ALRs anymore but you might be able to get away with suggesting that anyone interested can take a bag and use it to help tidy up the area around the cache. Some years back I made little "CITO kits" to leave as a signature item. I printed a small CITO label, attached it to a film canister with clear packing tape and stuffed the canister with a plastic shopping bag. Edited April 15, 2014 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I know of one CITO, established long ago, that is continuous, and the owner allows one log per month. It exists because it was grandfathered; such CITOs are no longer allowed by Groundspeak. Most events are intended to be social gatherings of geocachers rather than individuals doing their own things by themselves. One of the purposes of CITO events, however, is to help instill a year-round "Cache In, Trash Out" ethic among participants. You shouldn't need a smiley to motivate you to pitch in and help clean up while walking by yourself. Quote Link to comment
+Roger Houston Posted April 27, 2014 Author Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) Thanks for sharing the ideas. Let me see what will be approved. Edited April 27, 2014 by Roger Houston Quote Link to comment
+lamoracke Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Have done a Mega event where there was a CITO associated with it that had a date for just one of the days but the organizers did not care which of the three days you did or logged it. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Several geocaching organizations and groups have formally adopted areas and do regularly scheduled CITO's at those sites. Perhaps that solution might work for your area? We visit this lake shore several times a year, and have been asked to start working on another lake on the other side of town too. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the CITO forum. Quote Link to comment
+Traditional Bill Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I've seen caches placed in littered areas and filled with trash bags. In the days when ALRs were allowed, some of the caches required a photo of you with a full trash bag in order to log it. You can't have ALRs anymore but you might be able to get away with suggesting that anyone interested can take a bag and use it to help tidy up the area around the cache. Some years back I made little "CITO kits" to leave as a signature item. I printed a small CITO label, attached it to a film canister with clear packing tape and stuffed the canister with a plastic shopping bag. Unless somebody else was doing that too, there was at least one of those film canisters floating around as of last year. I found one in a cache somewhere in central Jersey. It went to good use, as the area nearby the cache I found it in needed some cleaning up. As for the thread topic - Maybe you should try to organize a monthly CITO event with your city's cooperation. Quote Link to comment
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