Red Maple Traditional Cache
BEENTHERE309: This guy keeps walking away
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An old metamucil can about the size of, well, an old metamucil can. Filled with the usual swag. This is our first entry in the growing number of caches to be found in Reservoir Park. Stealth may be needed at certain times.
The following is reprinted from wikipedia.com:
Acer rubrum (Red Maple, also known as Swamp or Soft Maple), is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. It ranges from the Lake of the Woods on the border between Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to near Miami, Florida, and southwest to east Texas. Many of its features, especially its leaves, are quite variable in form. At maturity it often attains a height of around 25 metres (82 feet). It is aptly named as its flowers, petioles, twigs and seeds are all red to varying degrees. Among these features, however, it is most well known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn.
Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions, perhaps more so than any other tree in eastern North America. It can be found growing in swamps, on poor dry soils, and most anywhere in between. Elevation is also not a limiting factor in its range, as it grows well from sea level to about 900 m (3,000 feet). Due to its attractive fall foliage and pleasing form, it is often used as a shade tree for landscapes. It is used commercially on a small scale for maple syrup production as well as for its medium to high quality lumber. It is also the State Tree of Rhode Island.
FYI:
This cache would count for Page 60 on the North Carolina Delorme Challenge (GCTYE6), and for Moore County on the North Carolina County Challenge (GC19YRC)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
jura lbh frr vg, lbh jvyy xabj jurer gb ybbx
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