Umatilla River Basin Juvenile Lamprey
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Owner:
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Released:
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Friday, February 1, 2013
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Origin:
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Oregon, United States
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Mission: I’m a juvenile Pacific Lamprey travel bug. Help me migrate! My mission is to move down the Umatilla River Basin and reach the Pacific Ocean by being placed in caches along or near the Umatilla River and then Columbia River. Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Confederated Tribe of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and tribal organizations, and others are working to restore my species, I want to visit National Wildlife Refuges, National Fish Hatcheries, and other sites along the way that might be important to lamprey. When you can’t leave me behind because only virtual geocaching is allowed, just log your visit, take a picture of me, and upload it to Groundspeak.com. Then leave me in another cache close by so I can keep travelling.
If you’ve found me near the ocean, I may be returning as an adult lamprey. Help me migrate BACK upriver to a ‘spawning bed’ cache near where I started. Let’s see how many river journeys I can make!
Please Note: As with National Wildlife Refuges, it is illegal to leave permanent caches at National Parks and Monuments and other public lands. However, virtual caches are finding their niche on public lands and activities such as the lamprey travel bug are welcome to visit. We encourage participants to log their visit, take a picture of the lamprey travel bug, and upload it to Geocaching.com's website. The lamprey travel bug can then be left in a nearby cache. Always check with site staff locally about specific regulations.
Why This Bug Was Made:
This travel bug is truly unique; there are 12 others located in caches across the range of Pacific lamprey, but each one is hand-carved by Service Visitor Information Specialist Matt How. The inspiratiion for this travel bug and the 'Forgotten Fish' geocaching project is a desire by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees to not only educate and inspire you and other members of the public to help conserve Pacific lamprey, but to connect with nature, too. By toting along a species from geocache to geocache or waypoint that doesn't have the charisma star power of say, a Bald eagle or a Pacific salmon, you're helping spread the word about one of the world's oldest and (we think) most interesting fish. We also want to share our passion for our trust species and habitats--they belong to all of us! So take this travel bug, help it along its mission, help us keep tabs on it, and most of all, be safe and have fun. Happy geocaching!
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