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(The Geocaching Doc Video) LIttlelist GEOCACHER’S Birthday!

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Published on Apr 30, 2014
The Doc’s littlest cacher celebrates his 2nd Birthday! Join their weekend full of fun, friends, family and of course some GEOCACHING!

VIDEO LINKS FOR MOBILE VIEWERS
GEOCACHING With Barney Fife! – http://youtu.be/E7Xx_rPKJM8
TRAVEL BACK IN TIME! (with the magic of YouTube)
1 Year – http://youtu.be/MvrCS_wUN-0
2 Years – http://youtu.be/nNVT5Z-_VdQ

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Geocaching taking a beating from Government Officials and the media as of late! (Part 2 of 3)

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Here we see the Badlands of Central Oregon. They don’t look so bad, do they? But they are now bad for Geocaching! They are on Bureau of Land Management (hereafter referred to as BLM) land, and more specifically, a designated wilderness area within BLM land. The local district manager is asking that 47 Geocaches be permanently removed, and another 37 closed seasonally (a total of 84 caches), in areas on BLM land deemed inappropriate for Geocaching. The caches are being removed from the Badlands, Spring Basin and Lower White River designated wilderness areas, as well as land on nearby Horse Ridge and other lands deemed inappropriate for caching. Along with designated wilderness areas, these BLM lands have titles such as “research natural areas” and “areas of critical environmental concern.” This story received widespread coverage in the media, one of the most covered Geocaching related news stories we’ve ever seen. Why is that? Read on!

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The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: April 26th, 2014

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OCNA blog note: Please note that HikerJamz is having a contest! But you’ll have to listen to see how to enter. You might want to brush up on your early Geocaching history though. This week, HikerJamz and co-host Ken spend quite a bit of time talking about the archival of over 4,000 caches in Arizona, that we blogged about last week. Ken is from Arizona, and did have one cache archived.

Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show is a proud member of the Tech Podcasts Network. Today we will explain how to win a set of ” 10″ Travelfleas from Travelfreas.com…Listen to a new episode every Saturday at 3:00 pm. Eastern (New York) time here on Blog Talk Radio. We will discuss news, events, different types of caching tips and tricks and from time to time we will have a special guest visit our show. Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show is sponsored by CacheFace.com which is a dedicated social network for geocachers to connect and share in their caching passion globally and in real time. All Geocachers are welcome to join for free. To learn more about Geocaching, go to geocaching.com/guide and find the Q&A’s on what geocaching is all about. Thank you in advance for listening to our show. Host: Hikerjamz from Ohio and Co-Host: KandB from Arizona USA. Don’t forget to like us on our show page !

Geocaching taking a beating from Government Officials and the media as of late! (Part 1 of 3)

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File this post under current events in Geocaching. We highly recommend all Geocachers subscribe to a Google news alert for the word Geocaching. Or alternatively, you can come read this blog, and look at the RSS feed we have of the 5 latest Geocaching news stories on the internet in the sidebar. Two “negative” stories came out this week, one regarding the mass removal of caches on BLM land in Oregon, and another with a negative headline about Geocaching and North Carolina State Gamelands, although the article itself is quite balanced and generally favorable towards Geocaching. But there is a 3rd “negative story” this week, that didn’t show up on a Google news alert (yet), and  it’s a big one. Here you see a parcel map of the State of Arizona. Everything shown in blue (light or dark) is State Trust Land. Although it’s been said for years Geocaching is not an authorized recreational activity on these lands, State officials have apparently taken it to the next level. This week, Geocachng.com HQ archived over 4,400 caches on State Trust Land property. We do have an explanation from The Arizona Assistant Director of Natural Resources Division (via an email an Arizona Cacher received from them, and has given us permission to post and/or quote from). Originally intended to be one post touching on all three news stories, we’ve decided to cover all three of individually, beginning with the situation in Arizona.

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(The GCDoc Videos) Homemade Puzzle Box GEOCACHE & GEOCACHING with Barney Fife

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OCNA Blog note: We were just going to skip a weekly video posted by The Geocaching Doc while our Blogger was on vacation, but it turned out to be one of The Doc’s highly popular videos where he shows viewers how to fabricate a unique and interesting container, so we are posting his Puzzle Box Geocache video, where he shows how he made the Cache which won first prize at a local to him Makers Madness event (was originally posted to YouTube April 15th, 2014), as well as his latest video, GEOCACHING with Barney Fife, published the same day as this post.


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The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: April 19th, 2014

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More Podcasting Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show on BlogTalkRadio

The Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show has a new episode every Saturday at 3:00 pm. Eastern (New York) time here on Blog Talk Radio. We will discuss news, events, different types of caching tips and tricks and from time to time we will have a special guest visit our show. Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show is sponsored by CacheFace.com which is a dedicated social network for geocachers to connect and share in their caching passion globally and in real time. All Geocachers are welcome to join for free. To learn more about Geocaching, go to geocaching.com/guide and find the Q&A’s on what geocaching is all about. Thank you in advance for listening to our show. Host: Hikerjamz from Ohio and Co-Host: KandB from Arizona USA. Don’t forget to like us on our show page !