Support Your Local Sheriff – The Wild West Traditional Geocache
Support Your Local Sheriff – The Wild West
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Support Your Local Sheriff – Welcome to the Wild West involves a short jaunt off of the road . . . bring your trained plastic container sniffing dog!
This cache is in an ecosystem restoration area, so do not drive off of the existing roads. Walk and enjoy the area, but leave no trace of your visit! This cache does not involve having to disturb the area in order to discover and then sign the log! "Examining the role of herbivory, ground disturbance, climate change, and overstorey trees in affecting conifer establishment in dry forest ecosystems and along the forest–grassland ecotone. [Such projects] will have important implications for ecosystem restoration, rangeand wildlife conflicts, and fuel management." (visit link)
In the 1700s to 1800s the only minuscule immigration western Canada or Rupert's Land saw were early French Canadian North West Company fur traders from eastern Canada and the English Adventurers and Explorers representing the Hudson's Bay Company who arrived via Hudson Bay. Canada became a nation in 1867, Rupert's Land became absorbed into the North-West Territories. To encourage British Columbia to join confederation, a transcontinental railway was proposed. The railway companies felt it was not feasible to lay track over land where there was no settlement. The fur trading era was declining as the buffalo population disappeared, so too did the nomadic buffalo hunters, which presented a possibility to increase agricultural settlement. Agricultural possibilities were first expounded by Henry Youle Hind. The Dominion government with the guidance of Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior in charge of immigration, (1896–1905)[4] enacted Canada's homesteading act, the Dominion Lands Act, in 1872. An extensive advertising campaign throughout western Europe and Scandinavia brought in a huge wave of immigrants to "The Last, Best West".
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