Botany 101 Traditional Cache
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This is a drive up cache located on the county roadside right of way. There is enough shoulder right at the cache site for pulling off a vehicle, or you can park down a nearby side street and walk back to it. My GPSr signals never settled in this location, so the above coordinates are an average, but you only need to get within 200 feet to know where to hunt.
I am dedicating my first cache to my dad, Luther S. Winsor, a National Park ranger, and park planner, who taught me about the natural world as I grew up, inspiring a love of nature and a study of natural sciences in me. He used his knowledge and experience to protect and preserve land and resources for the use and enjoyment of others, both for the nation in his work, and locally during his retirement years.
I have enjoyed driving by this particular botanical treasure for several years now. It is a magnificent example of this tree species, which is the third largest in North America. It is related to the Big Cone Spruce. However, like the Big Cone Spruce, it is not a Spruce, it is a relative of the Hemlock, and belongs to the pine family. (However, its common name includes none of these designations) These trees can grow to be over 200 feet high and can be identified by their reddish barked, deeply grooved trunks, short, flat, soft needles, and small, soft cones which have bracts that look like the back ends of little mice crawling under the scales of the cone.
The common name of this tree is on the cache log.
This is an easy drive up find. Please log a DNF if you can't find it in any obvious place as it tends to be findable by muggles too.
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