Daviskw: I hope we can work something out with the Forest Service in the future. I should have requested to place this cache and we would not have wasted our time.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Forest Service would place it's own cache...maybe fill it with patches or park information. Better yet, set up a series of virtual caches at interesting or special areas of a wilderness. Then when appearing at the last cache, the Forest Service office, be able to get a patch for that Wilderness. Maybe some information picked up along the way would be needed to confirm the course was visited, in order to get the patch.
I love Missouri’s Wilderness areas, they have much to offer and I would hate to see them excluded from Geocaching.
Butch