> The Forest Service only administers 2 historic landmarks in the whole
> country. Can you figure out where it is?

Cool! I found it! Now I gotta go there! This would be an ideal place for a
letterbox, and I am thrilled that your conversations with the folks there
were positive!

Ruthann
'thann

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "Ruthann Logsdon Zaroff"
wrote:
> > The Forest Service only administers 2 historic landmarks in the
whole
> > country. Can you figure out where it is?
>
> Cool! I found it! Now I gotta go there! This would be an ideal
place for a
> letterbox, and I am thrilled that your conversations with the folks
there
> were positive!
>
> Ruthann
> 'thann

Enjoy the tour. The box isn't their yet. I may go back and help
them place it.

John

Which raises a question.

Is it a good idea to ask any park you want to hide a box in, if it is
alright to do so?

On 11 Aug 2002, at 22:27, forester1241 wrote:

> I just visited an historic landmark administered by the USDA Forest
> Service. I told them about letterboxing and they were very exited
> about the prospect of having a letterbox on their site with clues
> based on interpretive information from the tour of the grounds they
> give. The administrator had her laptop available and went right onto
> letterbox.org while I was there. I think this could be the beginning
> of a beautiful relationship. It might be just the foot in the door
> that U.S. letterboxing needs in order to create a mutually beneficial
> relationship with public land management agencies.
>
> Now here's the neatest thing about this place I was at. (BTW I'm not
> going to name it in case they want to make it a mystery box.) On the
> grounds of this landmark is an historic building that is know as "The
> Letter Box!" Can you believe that?!?!? It's what actually got me
> thinking about letterboxing. When I saw the picture of the building
> on the interpretive sign by the parking lot labeled "Letter Box" I
> thought it was a clue to the location of a box on the property. I
> went into the gift shop and asked a uniformed employee about it and
> quickly surmised that there was no connection to letterboxing. As I
> explained it to them their eye grew wide with excitement. I'm going
> to check into their web site to continue the dialog.
>
> The Forest Service only administers 2 historic landmarks in the whole
> country. Can you figure out where it is?
>
>
>
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--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "Raygan" wrote:
> Which raises a question.
>
> Is it a good idea to ask any park you want to hide a box in, if it
is
> alright to do so?
>
>

That's a good question. Right now there's no uniform policy that I
know of among public land managers. It's reception is likely to
depend on the discretion of the individual manager. That will depend
on what their first exposure and understanding of letterboxing is. I
would suggest that if you want to approach a specific area's manager,
do it before you've taken the time to plan out the box.

You want to make their first impression of letterboxing a good one.
Just make general inquiries as to whether or not they've heard of it
and try to sell them on the advantages.

The main one is that it brings people there. That's their "bread and
butter."



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