TREEmendous #24 Multi-Cache
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This cache is a multicache! See below for instructions.
Number 24 in a series of notable trees spanning the greater St. Louis bi-state region, celebrating the United Nations International Year of Forests in 2011. This cache has been placed with the permission of the Shaw Nature Preserve.
Shaw Nature Reserve is open year round from 7 am until sunset. Visitor Center hours are 8 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays and 9 to 5 on weekends. The Bascom House is open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Sunday. The Nature Reserve is open to hikers every day, but the Visitor Center and Bascom House are closed on some major holidays. There is an admission fee.
You will want to seek this cache before 4:30 pm in order to take the Trail House Loop, otherwise it is quite a hike.
KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE
A brief introduction:
The Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus) grows in moist woods, creek banks, and flood plains. It is mainly found in the Midwest from western Ohio to eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, southern Michigan to northern Alabama and Tennessee.
A little bit more about the tree:
Kentucky coffee tree is a large round-barked tree belonging to the legume family and reaches heights of 60 to 100 feet. Its short trunk, 1 to 2 feet in diameter, divides into several large branches that end in contorted, stout twigs. Its leaves are the largest of any native Missouri tree; fruits are large, long, leathery pods; seeds have been used as a coffee substitute.
Fun Fact!
The tree is most easily identified in fall and winter for its large dressed leaf scars. The leaf which emerges late in spring is made up of a hundred or more separate oval leaflets arranged on the branches of the rib.
Instructions for finding this cache:
Nearby is the Maritz Trail House sign. Directly below that one is another sign with a number on it, from that number subtract 326 to obtain the correct N coordinates - N 38° 28.XXX'. Again, take that same number on the sign and subtract 437 to obtain the correct W coordinates - W 090° 49.XXX'. The final is a small container with room only for the log book and a pencil.
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