If somebody's out to remove a box, they're gonna remove it whether or
not there's a message saying not to remove the box. It IS useful for
those wonderful people that find it by accident and pick it up
thinking it's trash and realize too late that it's not. I like to
think that my boxes are so well hidden, though, that they never get
found by accident and thus don't need such a disclaimer. =)

> it cannot hurt the enviroment in anyway,shape or form

I've seem some letterboxes where it's pretty obvious someone looking
for the box was digging around a little too harshly. And there's a
certain box in Arches National Park about 50 steps out on ground
where there are signs plastered everywhere saying not to go off the
trail because a single footprint can cause decades of damage to the
soil.

Letterboxing most certainly CAN hurt the environment, and if we want
to make sure rangers, administrators, and property owners allow us to
hide letterboxes, we've got to show them we can do it responsibily
without hurting the environment. Responsible letterboxing is a must!

> it was probally the rangers whop through it away,but it could have
> been anywtjhing else(idiots,animals ect..)

I kind of think it probably was NOT the rangers or anyone in charge
because I think they would have been inclined to email me saying they
pulled the letterbox and get the clue off the website ASAP with the
usual reasons for why they frown on hiding letterboxes in the area.
If you want my guess, I'm betting an animal lodged it loose where it
was left exposed for someone to find and probably throw away thinking
it was trash. (Shoots my nobody will ever find my letterboxes by
accident theory to holes, though, doesn't it? *smile*)

-- Ryan