the note from July 9 repeated below. I figured I had one free day in
southern NH, picked some titles at random, and eventually picked the
Beaver Brook clues as appearing to be a walk I would like for that
day. I was rushed before leaving and barely got the clues printed
with no time to search the archives.
It was a nice walk anyway. But the note from Beaver Brook Park was
recieved three weeks before my trip and six weeks ago total. Why are
the clues to these boxes unaltered to reflect that these boxes were
confiscated by the park staff? The boxes are on the unclaimed list. I
appreciate that the webmasters leave clues unedited, but a land
manager announced that he confiscated the boxes. I believe that's a
situation (and perhaps the only situation) where they should step in
and edit/delete clues to reflect this, especially when the placer is
not present to do it themselves. The land manager was clear that he
didn't want letterboxers off trail in those areas. There shouldn't
have been any information available that contradicted this. I realize
that our webmasters are volunteers who already have done a huge
amount for our sport, but I feel this is a case where they should
have stepped in and made the corrections, for the sake of the sport
and relations with this park (and other parks that this manager
shares info with).
I realize that I should have known better than to not check the
archives, but plenty of letterboxers aren't maillst members and do
not have access to the message archive, nor the new database, nor
know of these resources. Please consider some action on the Beaver
Brook clues. If really neccesary, I'll "adopt" them for the purpose
of posting the park's note in place of the clues.
Happy letterboxing.
Mike B.
Norfolk, VA
F72 - P3+
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "trishkri"
wrote:
> --- In LbNA-Webmasters@yahoogroups.com,
> Message:
> I am the Executive Director of Beaver Brook Association. I was
> recently alerted to the fact that your site lists two letterbox
> locations on our property. Although we are not opposed to this
> activity on our property, these particular locations were not
> approved by our organization. Unfortunately this is fastly becoming
a
> frequent problem. Our land is open to the public, but it is private
> and any use other than the usual passive recreation activities need
> to be OK'd with staff. Please alert the people who placed these
> letterboxes that they will be removed and can be picked up at our
> office. We will gleadly work with them to determine a mutually
> beneficial site.
>
> Cliff Simmonds
> Executive Director
>
> This message is sent in regards to this page:
> http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.asp?
> boxnum=2817&boxname=Beaver_Brook_