Scouting America's (formerly The Boy Scouts of America) "Cache to Eagle" series is a National program to highlight past Eagle Scout projects. In addition to all of the typical Scout skills you would expect a Scout to have, an Eagle Scout has to do quite a bit more to earn their rank. This includes:
Earning 21 Merit Badges - 14 required ones and then another 7 from areas that interest the Scout. The required ones are: First Aid, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Citizenship in Society, Communication, Cooking, Personal Fitness, Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving, Environmental Science or Sustainability, Personal Management, Swimming or Hiking or Cycling, Camping and Family Life.
Actively serve in a leadership position for 6 months.
Perform a service project: "While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Scouting.) The project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your unit leader and unit committee, and the council or district before you start".
This cache highlights a different sort of project, as the Life Scout here worked on invasive species removal, slowing the growth of the Asian bittersweet vine. The US government defines an invasive species as:
1 "non-native to the ecosystem under consideration"
2 "whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health."
The Eagle Candiate here, after training with a local ecology group, has directed a team of Scouts and other volunteers to cut the base of and, when possible, remove the bottom section of this invasive vine, which is overwhelming and would eventually kill the trees at this local county park. When you find the container, check out the tree it's hidden on, which has sections of this vine along the branches that are cutting deeply into the tree.
Please stay away from the "hairy vines" just past the hide area, which are the native, but itch inducing, poison ivy.
Cache available dawn to dusk, no night caching please! Parking coordinates posted for best parking, map programs on your phone may try to take you to the side of a busy road to park, which has only a single spot and is difficult to get in and out of.