Mondo's Clear Creek Cottonwoods Traditional Cache
Mondo's Clear Creek Cottonwoods
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Micro near bike path.
Micro cache is modeled after some other natural element caches I have seen. Log only, please bring your geo pencil. Parking is available at N39° 49.587 W104° 58.030. Nice area for a lunch break, walk or bike ride. Though I am allergic to the seeds, this site is to honor the Cottonwood Tree. The Cottonwood is the state tree for both Kansas and Nebraska. While cottonwood wood is not well suited to building (the wood is too soft, porous and weak), the trees grow very quickly to provide shade on the sun-baked prairie! Under ideal conditions, cottonwood can grow to 100 feet high in fifteen years. Cottonwood trees like lots of water, so settlers knew that water was nearby when they saw the trees in the distance. Later, when water rights were being negotiated (an ongoing western states issue), the number of cottonwoods was considered because they used so much water themselves. The female trees release the famous fluffy cottonwood seeds in early summer. In a large grove, it the fluffy cottonwood seeds can look like a small Hollywood snowstorm. When the trees break from lightening, storms or die from age or insects, the easily hollowed branches and trunks become homes for many birds, rodents and reptiles (oh yea, geocaches too!). Many woodcarvers and whittlers dry the thick chunks of bark and use the bark for relief carving.
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