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Buffleheads! Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Sagefox: Last time I archived a cache after two consecutive no-finds someone who didn't know it was archived came along and found it. In this case though I believe that the container is, in fact, gone. I have placed many remote caches in cool locations like this but have recently been tightening my cache maintenance circle to much closer to home.

In any event I should yield the ground to local cachers. This is in keeping with the trends and growth of geocaching. In the early years we needed traveling and vacationing cachers to place caches as prolifically as possible. Now it seems that each urban area has several times the active cachers they had during the first three years.

This marsh area is a great place to encourage people to visit. The City of Fort Bragg has been studying the concept of this marsh to see if it might be an appropriate to develop something similar on the former G-P mill site along the city ocean front. We are hoping that can happen.

If adventurous cachers want to continue to search for this container (a nice ammo can) and should happen to find it they can log it as a find even though it is archived in return for removing it from the site. If it is still there feel free to use the container and submit it as a new cache in the same location or any other.

Thanks to all who visited the buffleheads, pelicans, mergansers and all their feathered friends and thanks to Uncle Alaska for placing the original Arcata to Anchorage cache that got us into the marsh for the first time.

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Hidden : 11/28/2002
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This special area needs to have a geocache to treat people to a wonderful restoration project.

White settlers of European decent have been very industrious over the past three hundred years. We have created some of the best farming conditions in the world but unfortunately we have drained approximately 90% of the country’s wetlands to achieve that goal.

Marshes and estuaries are the richest land habitats on the planet and, like the oceans, our fate is dependent upon them. This marsh restoration project is a real showpiece. Hiking these trails at Thanksgiving time we spotted Eurasian Widgeons, Marsh Wrens, Pelicans, Black Phoebes, Song Sparrows, Egrets, a Northern Harrier, a White Tail Kite, Mallards and other ducks – Cinnamons, Teals, Buffleheads (no, buffleheads are not birdwatching humans!), and a host of other water birds.

I Street will take you to the cache site and great birding paths. G Street leads to the interpretive center and interconnecting marsh trails.

A little discretion is advised when removing the container. A momentary wait if the trail is occupied will protect this hide from the general citizenry. Keep in mind too that birders on the other side of the pond will be looking your way through binoculars. No one will have any idea what you are up to so all you have to do is keep the container close to your side as you walk to a convenient place to log and trade.

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