Welcome to the Blue Goose GeoTour!
Since you must fly or boat to get to nearly all of Alaska’s Refuges, we are bringing the refuges to you! The Blue Goose GeoTour (BGGT) is a series of 16 geocaches that have been hidden at 16 of the 223 Anchorage Parks. Each geocache features one of Alaska's amazing National Wildlife Refuges.
This cache features Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge. The heart of Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge is a lowland basin of forests and wetlands that forms the floodplain of the meandering Nowitna River. The Refuge's climate is typically marked by light precipitation, mild winds, long, hard winters and short, relatively warm, summers. The hills that circle the refuge lowlands are capped by alpine tundra. It takes a week in a canoe, or more than an hour in a small plane, to traverse the Refuge's 2.1 million acres of pristine wildlife habitat. Approximately 223 miles of the Nowitna River's 283-mile length flow within the boundaries of the Refuge. Fish species inhabiting the river and its related lakes and streams include sheefish, burbot, whitefish, sucker, king and chum salmon, northern pike and arctic grayling.
Prizes
Each cache contains a special First to Find (FTF) prize with up to 10 additional prizes. Caches also contain a trivia question that is answered by following a virtual clue printed on passport cards in the cache. The first 50 people to visit all 16 caches and submit your completed trivia postcard will receive a custom Alaska National Wildlife Refuges path tag. All submissions will be eligible for other fabulous prizes, but the more you caches you log, the better your chances are of winning!
Take the Blue Goose GeoTour
1. Link to the GPS coordinates on Geocaching.com by searching the Hidden by Username: “Blue_Goose” or the Cache Name: “BGGT”.
2.With your GPS or smartphone find up to 16 refuge geocaches.
3.Within each cache is a passport card with a trivia question. Take a passport card and follow its virtual path to answer the question.
4. To track which caches you’ve visited and trivia questions you’ve answered, download a passport and postcard .
5. Submit your trivia answers via postcard to:
Blue Goose GeoTour
Alaska NWRS, MS 235
1011 E Tudor Road
Anchorage, AK 99503
Or via email to: wild4ak@gmail.com
Deadline for submitting entries is November 14, 2012.
Don't forget to “stamp” your Anchorage Park Foundation Park Passport using the Anchorage Parks app . Good luck and happy geocaching!
The Blue Goose GeoTour was made possible by:
