Tour The Greater Hazleton Rails To Trails Mystery Cache

The Greater Hazleton Rails To Trails pathway is a very popular hiking & biking trail on the outskirts of the city. Today it stretches about 4 miles, with future expansion plans in the works. This Puzzle Cache will take you along the entire existing 4-mile length, visiting all 6 of the Educational Signs along the trail. Gather information from each sign to derive the Puzzle Cache's final coordinates. Out and back from the Main Parking Lot is an 8-mile round trip.

Proceed to each of the Reference Points specified below, gather the necessary information to answer each question, then plug in the correct numbers to get the final location of the cache. The cache itself is a small container, suitable for small TBs and a few trade items.

As always, BYOP.

R1 Wonderful Wetlands

Which pair of animals appears on this sign?

• Indigo Bunting & Red-Spotted Newt - A = 0
• Common Blackbird & Spotted Turtle - A = 5
• Meadowlark & Bullfrog - A = 6
• Red Winged Blackbird & Beaver - A = 7

R2 A Natural Canopy

Streamside vegetation, essential to ensuring a healthy stream ecosystem, is called a ____________ ?

• Littoral Zone - C = 1
• Riparian Buffer - C = 3
• Peatland - C = 5
• Eutrophic Line - C = 8

R3 Yesterday's Practices, Today's Rare Habitat

This location's habitat type is classified as a __________ ?

• Invasive Forest - E = 2
• Scrub Forest - E = 4
• Boreal Forest - E = 6
• Pine Barren - E = 8

R4 What's Your Watershed Address?

This area is within the __________ ?

• Laurel Run Watershed - B = 0
• Chesapeake Watershed - B = 2
• Susquehanna Watershed - B = 3
• Bear Creek Watershed - B = 5
• Nescopeck Watershed - B = 8
• Dreck Creek Watershed - B = 9

R5 Reservoir Of Resources

The altitude at this location is __________ ?

• 1579 feet - D = 2
• 1601 feet - D = 4
• 1701 feet - D = 6
• 1745 feet - D = 9

R6 What is a `Heath Barren'?

Two types of insects attracted by this habitat are depicted on the sign. They are __________ ?

• Buck Moth & Sallow Moth - F = 2
• Striped Ladybug & Yellow-Winged Darter - F = 4
• Damselfly & Monarch Butterfly - F = 6
• Green Darner & Bogong Moth - F = 7

N 40 57. A C E

W 075 53. B D F