When caching use
appropriate behavior, leaving the area better than you found it, properly
disposing of waste, minimizing the use of fire, avoiding the spread of invasive
species and restoring degraded areas. Here is a brief list of guidelines to get
you thinking in the right direction.
Cache Placers
·
Build a relationship
with local land owners or land management agencies, to ensure minimal impact of
cache placement.
·
Avoid burying a cache
in the ground.
·
It is the cache
owner’s responsibility to maintain the cache and the surrounding area. If a
cache’s area is impacted, confer with the land manager on how you will mitigate
the impacts and seek their advice as to whether to relocate the cache.
·
Never place food items
in a cache.
·
Don’t modify the
environment for any reason, even when hiding a cache.
Cache Seekers
·
Use maps to find a
route that will minimize impacts. Note waypoints during your journey to assist
you on your return trip.
·
If you notice a path
has started to wear in the vicinity of a cache, notify the cache owner via
email.
·
Practice the “lift,
look, replace” technique if you lift a rock to look under it. Replace it
exactly as you found it.
·
After you’ve finished
searching for a cache, the area should look as though you were never there or
better than when you arrived.
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