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| Author: AgouraCharger & Campy |
| Message Title: Donate your old GPS |
| Message #: 7805 |
| Post Date: 12/30/2009 12:18:52 PM |
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Do you have an old GPS you’d like to donate to a good cause?
Campy and I are volunteers on the board of Channel Islands Restoration. CRI restores island and mainland habitat by removal of non-native plants. Most invasives restrict or eliminate native plants and threaten endemic and endangered animal species as well.
CRI is partnering with Channel Islands National Park to remove all of the iceplant from Anacapa Island by 2016. The iceplant was planted by the US Navy to control the wind blown sand. Their efforts were so successful that almost every bit of the island is now covered by the iceplant. This has resulted in the elimination of most native plants. Where we have removed the iceplant, the native plants have begun to reappear. Several Conejo cachers joined us on an iceplant removal trip earlier this year
For this project CIR has enlisted the help of hundreds of volunteers, many of them low-income school children. The National Park Service provides the boat transportation, CIR coordinates the volunteers and the volunteers remove the ice plant.
The system is working very well, however we have discovered that it is very important to document, with maps, the areas where the removal and replanting are taking place. The GPS is the ideal tool for this and who better than geocachers to turn to for help!
We are in need of EIGHT used GPS units (Garmin, Magellan or others). They do not have to be the newest or fastest. Old working units that can mark a coordinate location are great.
Best of all, CIR is a nonprofit organization that can give you a tax donation receipt for any GPS that you give us. If you have such a unit, contact me at gohart@yahoo.com.
Your help and donation will be greatly appreciated. We’ll send you a donation receipt for tax purposes.
We are also offering free weekday trips (on the National Park boat) to Anacapa to remove iceplant – the first and third Wednesdays of every month. If you can take some time off from work (or caching!), let Campy know (at cgnpark@yahoo.com) and we’ll get you signed up. This is a great time to be on the islands – lots of green and usually whale sightings. Earlier this month, at least a thousand dolphins followed our boat for miles as we crossed the channel.
Great adventure! Happy New Year!
Campy and the AgouraCharger
gohart@yahoo.com
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