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Hidden : 3/25/2015

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Geocache Description:

Safari Cache at The Hurstville Interpretive Center.

This cache is part of the Jackson County Conservation Geocache Safari series. The safari series encourages geocachers to visit the county parks in Jackson County. Enjoy your visit to all of the safari caches, collect all of the code words from the caches and redeem them for a pathtag award.

Be sure to follow the Safari Cache directions and rules below to have a successful cache experience.

Pathtag Honor Roll

Congratulations: bikefarmer 6/8/15
First complete journal and pathtag earned!!!!

Congratulations: pathtag earned ptcline 6/10/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned markayla 6/14/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned Kflock 6/27/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned kiteman71 7/22/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned Tweetgal 7/22/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned vvsmom 7/27/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned L7 8/1/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned croling 8/1/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned The Weasel 8/1/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned sandwcarnahan 8/2/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned RonTon 8/27/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned IowaBeaver 9/19/15

Congratulations: pathtag earned PlayfulSeaotter12 9/19/15

Jackson County Conservation
Geocache Safari

Explore Jackson County parks, learn about different bird species and have fun geocaching!

#1 Trumpeter Swan

The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator), named for its resonant call, is North America’s largest wild waterfowl, with a wingspan of up to eight feet. These swans require open water, feed mainly on aquatic plants, and nest in wetlands. Although they once nested from Alaska to northern Missouri, trumpeter swans were nearly extirpated in the lower 48 states by 1930 due to habitat loss and hunting. Small populations survived in isolated areas such as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where the population was thought to number only 69.
As a result of conservation measures, populations across the continental United States began increasing. Today there are approximately 46,000 trumpeter swans in North America. Swans in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem played a significant role in the population resurgence, but by the early 1960s, cygnet production in Yellowstone and subsequent recruitment of adults into the breeding population began declining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpeter_swan

FUN AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE TRUMPETER SWAN

• The Trumpeter Swan was hunted for its feathers throughout the 1600s - 1800s, causing a tremendous decline in its numbers. Its largest flight feathers made what were considered to be the best quality quill pens.

• Swans can live a long time. Wild Trumpeter Swans have been known to live longer than 24 years, and one captive individual lived to be 32.

• In the early 1950s, a large population of these birds were found in Alaska and today their population is estimated at close to 16,000.

• Trumpeter Swans form pair bonds when they are three or four years old. The pair stays together throughout the year, moving together in migratory populations. Trumpeters are assumed to mate for life, but some individuals do switch mates over their lifetimes. Some males that lost their mates did not mate again.

• A group of swans has many collective nouns, including a "ballet", "bevy", "drift", "regatta", and "school" of swans.

• The Trumpeter Swan is the largest waterfowl species native to North America.

• Trumpeter swans do not fly thousands of miles in the winter like some birds, but they do need to fly south to find warmer places to feed, especially if their home freezes over.

• For one month of the year, the trumpeter swan sheds its feathers (moults) and is unable to fly until the new ones grow. So that at least one parent can fly, the males and females moult at different times.

• Although it is now illegal to hunt trumpeter swans, they are often poisoned by lead shot or fishing weights which are left in the water by careless hunters.

Safari Cache Rules

(Disclaimer-The safari journal and the other safari caches do not need to be completed to claim a found it on this geocache)

1) Begin the Jackson County Conservation Geocache Safari at [ Trumpeter Swan-J.C.C.Geocache Safari #1 ] [ GC5Q2WV ]
2) At [ Trumpeter Swan-J.C.C.Geocache Safari #1 ] there will be blank copies of the Safari Journal for you to pickup. Additional copies are available inside the Hurstville Interpretive Center during operating hours.
3) The Safari Journal has information on the 12 Safari Caches that will need to be found.
4) Each Safari Cache has a code word on the cache container that will need to be entered into the Safari Journal.
5) Once the journal is completed with all of the code words, it can be returned to the Hurstville Interpretive Center for a special Safari pathtag.
6) All of the Safari Caches are on public use property and all rules and laws are to be followed.
7) Cache at your own risk.
8) There will be a limit of 1 pathtag per geocacher and two pathtags per family.

Safari Cache Instructions

#1-Trumpeter Swan
1) The cache is located at the posted coordinates.
2) Use the information from the cache listing or the Safari Journal to locate the cache.
3) Once you find the cache, sign the log and locate the code word.
4) Enter the code word into the Safari Journal for #1 Trumpeter Swan.
5) When all of the caches have been found and all of the code words have been collected, return to the Hurstville Interpretive Center to trade your completed journal for a Safari Pathtag.

Trumpeter Swan #1-J.C.C.Geocache Safari Notes

#1-Trumpeter Swan
1) Congratulations to "ptcline" for FTF 5/2/2015.
2) Congratulations to the first pathtag winner "bikefarmer" 6/8/15
3)The cache is located at the posted coordinates a short walk along the prairie trail.
4) There are blank copies of the journal in the cache container.
5) Approximate travel distance from #1 through #12 and back to #1 is 130 miles.

As always, be safe, be courteous, be respectful and have fun.

Please remember that all caches in the Jackson County Conservation Areas are CITO locations.

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Trumpeter Swan-J.C.C.Geocache Safari #1 Traditional Cache