A Fallen Giant Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/26/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Coquitlam's Como Creek winds its way through this beautiful wooded area. Cache is a small lock 'n lock with trade items and logbook. Please replace exactly as you find it. There is a small FTF prize courtesy of the littlest Huggy.

The Como Creek watershed encompasses approximately 8.7 square kilometers in south Coquitlam, a medium sized municipality in the north-eastern portion of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It includes Como Lake (headwaters of Como Creek), four main tributaries (Popeye, Booth, Macdonald and Mill creeks) and significant parks and wildlife corridors. Land use varies from single family residential - commercial in the uplands to commercial and light industrial in the lowlands. The watershed flows south from its headwaters at Como Lake Avenue to the Fraser River east of historic Fraser Mills, and is within one of BC's oldest communities (Maillardville). Over the last 60 years the area has undergone extensive growth and significant changes to land cover and land use. Yet with all this, the Como Creek watershed represents one of the last urban watersheds in the Tri-cities that supports wild stocks of coho salmon as well as other species at risk such as coastal cutthroat trout (both sea-run and resident) and bird species such as the great blue and green heron. Though much of the remaining ravine and riparian corridors are remnants of the expansive old growth forests that once covered the area from the early to mid-part of the century, a few small ecological reservoirs still exist such as Como Lake, the forested wetland on Como Creek south of Brunette Avenue, the Booth Creek ravine and upper Popeye Creek (the easternmost tributary). Viewed as a sum of its parts, the Como Creek watershed is a critical ecological linkage for wildlife moving south between Port Moody/North Coquitlam along the Harbour-Chineside and Mundy Park corridors, and moving west along the Coquitlam River/Colony Farm corridor. With its smaller sister watershed Nelson and Mackin Creeks to the west, this area offers a bridge for a diverse array of life (including us!) moving between the Coquitlam and Brunette River Basins. For more information, please visit Coquitlam Watershed Group

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh hfrq gb frnepu ybj.

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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