Travel Bug Dog Tag The Forgotten Fish: Portland, OR - Vancouver, WA Metro Area Pacific Lamprey Travel Bug

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Released:
Monday, August 11, 2014
Origin:
Oregon, United States
Recently Spotted:
In End Of The Trail Willamette Falls 2014 Coin Chall

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I’m a Pacific Lamprey travel bug. Help me migrate! My mission is to swim around the Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA, Metropolitan area visiting your favorite places to enjoy water. I would like to have my photo taken at at least 25 favorite watering holes in the metro area such as Tryon Creek, Willamette Falls, and Vancouver Lake Park. We all know favorite watering holes include places to drink "water" as well, such as coffee shops, soda shops, and brew pubs. Let's see how quickly I can visit 25 places! After you have posted your photo here, please leave me in a nearby cache.

By toting me along from geocache to geocache or waypoint, you're helping spread the word about one of the world's oldest and most interesting fish. While the Pacific Lamprey is culturally important to Native American peoples, we also help keep water clean and provide rich food sources for native species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, tribes and tribal organizations, and others are working to restore my species. They also want to share their passion for trust species and habitats--they belong to all of us! So help me along on my mission. Happy geocaching!  

About This Item

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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 inspiration 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! 

 
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.

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Tracking History (3964.5mi) View Map

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/21/2014 Jayel57 grabbed it   Visit Log

Caught this fish in Walla Walla. He swam back to the Portland area with me. Will drop soon. Cache on!
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/30/2014 wild ponies retrieved it from It's For the 'Burg Oregon   Visit Log

Time to get moving lil lamprey!
Dropped Off 9/24/2014 russb80 placed it in It's For the 'Burg Oregon - 163.5 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/19/2014 russb80 retrieved it from What's That Smell? Oregon   Visit Log

Saw his one while signing log and will move it along.
Dropped Off 8/17/2014 Penguin Tracker placed it in What's That Smell? Oregon - 5.37 miles  Visit Log

Often my Papa and I would stop along the Willamette River and soak our tired feet from biking all day. After reading the cache page, I thought this geocache would be the perfect place to help this travel bug continue it's journey. You can learn more about the river and enjoy the views here too. Happy travels!!

  • Helping a TB and enjoying the views!
Discovered It 8/15/2014 Mama Penguin discovered it   Visit Log

The kids were excited and I heard so much about this little one when I got home. Very cool idea!
Discovered It 8/15/2014 Papa-Penguin discovered it   Visit Log

One of the best parts of geocaching to me, is not just the great places they bring you to. It is also the great things we can learn of the world around us!

Thank you for putting together and sending out this travel bug. For me it was a great resource to get information, to help teach my daughter more about our world and the things in it!

  • Lamprey and Penguin Tracker a late night study.
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/15/2014 Penguin Tracker retrieved it from Zanny View for a Penguin Oregon   Visit Log

When I read my emails after dinner tonight, I was honored to find my geocache was chosen to be the starting point for a really cool travel bug!

It did not take much to convince Papa-Penguin to bring me here to check it out. After reading the email again to Papa-Penguin, I asked him, "What is a Pacific Lamprey?" He simply replied, "Let's go find out!" After watching a beautiful sunset, we walked on to check my geocache and retrieve the Travel Bug.

Wow!!!!

I have seen these creatures before, but I had no idea what they were called or how important they are to people or the river habitat. We sat on the steps by the reservoir until it was to dark, reading information about them and looking at pictures with his phone. Thank you for helping teach me about such an interesting fish. I will be happy to help move this little guy along!

😁 Happy Caching!!! 😁

  • A Pacific Lamprey in the Tabor Reservoir!
Dropped Off 8/15/2014 Fishery Resources placed it in Zanny View for a Penguin Oregon   Visit Log
Write note 8/15/2014 Fishery Resources posted a note for it   Visit Log

Hello geocaching community! So I'm officially hiding somewhere in Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon. What's a lamprey doing in Mt. Tabor Park? Well, there's water in the Park, right??? In order to find me, you're going to have to find a cache that'll have you looking at--and learning about-- water.

Pacific lamprey and humans have something in common (besides having both good and bad sides), we need cold, clean, connected water, and waterways! So let the hunt begin!

Oh, and when you find me, take a picture of me! Then choose to either 'discover' me, or 'grab' me. And hey, if you grab me, remember that Pacific lamprey don't like to be grabbed for that long! So move me along my mission, and do your best to take me places where water is important or where there might be good lamprey habitat, or where others might learn more about my species.

Speaking of learning, you can learn more about Pacific lamprey at this website:

http://www.fws.gov/Pacific/Fisheries/sphabcon/lamprey/index.cfm

And/or follow Luna the Lamprey on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PacificLamprey, or on Twitter @LunaTheLamprey
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