Cuivre Cache Traditional Cache

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RecumbentBiker: Flood waters will make this inaccessible. :-(

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Hidden : 4/21/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Cuivre Cache is an ammo box place at the Cuivre Island access area.

About This Area
Cuivre Island Conservation Area is in Lincoln and St. Charles counties, near Old Monroe. Access to the area is by Dalbow Road, off Highway 79. The majority of the area is an island within Mississippi river navigation pool 26, between river miles 235 and 238. The area was purchased through a cooperative effort among the Conservation Department, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and The Nature Conservancy. Most of the 1,461-acre area was acquired to provide wildlife habitat as mitigation lands for the construction of Melvin Price Lock and Dam (26). Cuivre Island Conservation Area consists of three separate tracts of land. Cuivre Island, at 1,240 acres, is mostly timbered, with 120 acres of cropland and 60 acres of sloughs. The island can be reached by boat from the mainland tract during normal river conditions. The 100-acre mainland tract was mostly open cropland when the Conservation Department purchased the property. Most of that open land has been planted with a variety of bottomland hardwood trees as part of a bottomland reforestation effort. Experimental methods were used to grow these trees at a local nursery and to establish this new forest on the area. These experimental methods seem to work well, and they will likely be used at a number of other reforestatoin sites around the state. Turkey Island is 120 acres of mostly forested land and is a recent addition to the area.

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**I do have a special use permit from the MO Department of Conservation to place this cache. **

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guvf pnpur jvyy abg sybng njnl va uvtu jngre.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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