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If the sheriff does not get things done by enforcing the law, I would suggest the Highway Patrol. If he is doing stuff on your property, it is clearly trespass. If he is endangering your family or personal property, then there are other laws he is breaking. Did you notice any strong smells of chemical or ether? That may be enough to get the Patrol to serve a warrant for production of meth.

I have that rifle in a shorter version. It is a good shooter and has taken a few deer for me. I have the matching pistol also.

How else could you recover the money you spend at Rockbridge?

Magellan makes a simple little Explorist unit that ties right into Geocache.com. It operates on 2 AA batteries and sells for $150. Avoid any gps that is rechargeable.

If you have not noticed, I have been riled about other things.

With the advent of the smartphone, the game has increased due to the gps and internet in a easy to access place. I still use a Magellan Triton GPS unit and download caches to it off the internet before I take off looking. I then log my finds on the computer when I return. I have purchased a small netbook to use for that main purpose when I travel. And when I am out I also have access to the TOPO USA software for mapping too. The smartphone is nice because you can be logged into the geocache website while you are searching, look at the clues, and log your visit all at one time. But, if you don't have cell signal, your phone gps does not work. A physical gps does. Then there is the thrill of the hunt. You should never expect to find a cache in a bright orange box sitting out in plain sight. I have found outlet covers that have 2 magnets and a log painted to match a steel post. Small pillboxes with a log buried in dirt in the knot of an old tree. Larger caches are ammo cans, watertite locktite boxes, bottles with screw lids, or some type of waterproof container. Most are near the road or trail, but not always. Some have multiple clues that require some thought. If you are ever near Houston, look for the privy cache, it is the best I have seen yet.

They would probably whore themselves out for any cause. I was thinking the same as you, but they also go to bat for disabled, gays, and other causes.

You have to put together a kit in a fanny pack or something. Cell phones are great for the ones in places where you have service, but you need a gps with download capability to really get the ones off the beaten paths. A fine point pen for signing the little logs. Some trinkets to leave behind in the larger caches. A laptop or netbook works great too. Be careful retrieving the caches, muggles may see you and steal the cache. Stealth is one of the arts of the game. Always put them back like you found them. My first was on the Ozark Trail, it had a complete log book with paragraphs for entrys, it was interesting to read. It was a 50 cal ammo can with several items. We did several last year during duck season after hunts in the Dexter area and Schell City. Just last month, we did the Houston and Licking ones, pretty neat area.

Pickle Springs is always a popular area. We use it from time to time for family pics, especially this time of the year when color starts. It is great in the spring also. You should have did the hike. There are some pretty views. Pink Rock, Hahn's Mill, Amidon, used to be one of my favorite places 20 some years ago. Nice place to lay in the river and relax, kind of a mini Johnson Shutins. The only place I have come across a collared lizard in MO. I still go there from time to time in the spring looking for outdoor edibles.

Way to go ACLU. What happened to protection of my personal property? What will happen when I show up and my wiper is tore off by some idiot that wants to spread his message? I call BS on this one. The city of Cape Girardeau loses on a law that has been in place for many years. The city claims it was due to litter, but I always felt it was to prevent damage to other's personal property. And the city has to pay the legal fees to the ACLU. Anyone see anything wrong with this? http://www.semissourian.com/story/1900605.html

It is a fun sport. Whenever I travel to a new place, I usually download the local caches and try to knock out a few if I have time. My favorites are usually in cemetaries. Nice quiet places with alot of history. I have found several ranging from micro caches that were about the size of 5 asprins stacked together to a full blown outhouse full of more stuff than a Dollar Tree. Travel bugs are fun. My handle is the same on geocaching.com, jdmidwest.

"I have 5 sons, I have seen someone keep repeating lies until they actually believe its the truth" Future POTUS Mitt Romney, 2012

Does the Forest Service have possession of the old mill now?

What type of oak? Most big ones around here are White Oak.

Looks like enough hen there to start a Kentucky Chicken Joint. In all of my time in the woods, I have never run across one of those.

Even better idea, a broader spectrum topic of discussion. Several have popped up in the yard but have fizzled soon. I have seen some red topped toad stools, a few boletes, and the start of some puffballs. But the puffballs never get bigger than an inch.

I have one of the first type, still new in the box with a little dirt on the tines, no blood. I have not figured out what kind of dirt they are designed for. Certainly not good ole SEMO clay topsoil.

Go get 5 gallons of gas and pour it into various areas in the dug out runs. Sit back and let it vaporize for a few minutes and touch it off with a match. Napalm the suckers out.

Probably going to extend the park down to that point. Montauk is getting too crowded, needs more space.

Actually the KKK was born out of the Democratic Party after the Civil War. They have roots in Southern Christianity. They are not the skinheads or the white supremacists, they tend to be more educated and proper and keep their organization on the down low. I think there is a big chapter near Sullivan. Spent some time in Cape after all today, did not see a flyer anywhere.

I thinks the Indians were here first, that would make most of us invasive species also.

I went by the local MDC Nature Center looking for one myself a few weeks back. The director of the place said MDC was doing away with printing most of its books because of cost.?? Conservation Atlas and Paddler Guides are gone best I can tell. There is talk of a new Fishes Of Missouri in a couple of years, I think production time/research was going to be around 3 years. Doing away with printed books because of cost. I always thought the money they charged for them would cover the cost. If they need more to cover the cost, the law of demand should solve that too. Maybe they could at least digitize them and post them as E Books for a nominal fee. I know digital media, electronic gps units, and smartphones have really changed the way we do things. But I still have my Delorme Atlas and other maps stuffed in the back seat pocket of my 4 Runner and use them regularly.

We have asian carp, armadillos, kudzu, emerald ash borers, japanese beetles, ladybugs are just some that come to mind. Honeybees are not native either.

I am wondering where the freedom to invade personal property comes in? It is one thing to post in public places. If they were to come onto my property, it would be trespass. Same goes with my personal property, ie boat, camper, vehicle when I am out and about.