Bird's Eye View Traditional Cache
Candyce54: Cache container has been replaced in a slightly different location with a little change in the find. Starting a new geocache.
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Cache is located in the Shaw Nature Reserve tall grass prairie. Depending on your starting point the hike will take you through woods and prairie over a well marked trail system.
PLEASE DO NOT PRY OR DO ANYTHING ELSE TO DISABLE THE CONTAINER. THINK ABOUT IT. SEE THE HINT IF NECESSARY. REMEMBER RIGHTY TIGHTY LEFTY LOOSIE.
Shaw Nature Reserve is 2400 acres and home to tall grass prairies, forests, glades, woodlands, wetlands and a native plant garden. Along with environmental education, restoration and native plant horticulture there are also 14 miles of hiking trails.
The Nature Reserve is open from 8 AM to 8 PM during daylight savings time. It closes at 5PM otherwise.
All visitors are required to stop at the Visitor Center to register. Pets are not allowed. Fees for non-Missouri Botanical Garden members are $5, seniors & students $3, Children under 12 are free. The Pinetum Loop Rd and the Trail House Loop road are open to cars daily, weather permitting. Please visit the website for more information.
The prairie is an ecosystem dominated by grasses and wildflowers with few trees or shrubs. Prairie once covered the central 1/3 of North America from western Ohio to Texas to the Rockies. The eastern band of the prairie was the tallgrass or bluestem prairie. Prairie plants, with roots penetrating deep into the soil, are adapted to the midsummer droughts of this region. The Reserve's prairie plantings (on former farmland or pasture) represent this once-vast, nearly treeless ecosystem, of which less than 1% of the original remains intact.
The cache container is large enough for TB's and other items. Thanks to LFrank for the container.
Permission was obtained from Lydia Toth to place the cache.
FTF Honors go to JPBilly
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