Geocache Monarch Tracking & Release ProgramABOUT GEOCACHINGDo you like hiking but you wish there was something to do? Do you wish there was more to it, like, more of a purpose, or a challenge that didn't involve a team or a lot of complicated rules? Well, there's a new game that's taking the nation by storm: Geocaching!
Check out the Geocaching site if you'd like to find caches in YOUR area! The main Geocaching Site Print-it-yourself sheet to include in your Geocache A virtual migrationThe Geocache Monarch Tracking & Release Program is a bit like the real monarch tracking done by Monarch Watch. Each one we release has its own unique serial number, on a sticker on its right hind wing. After logging and tagging, the Geocache Monarch is placed in somebody's geocache for someone else to find. Monarch Watch's Real Tagging Program 
Each Geocache monarch has a personal name. They carry with them an email address, and you can prove you actually met one by including its name and number. These paper lepidopterans can eventually make their way to Canada or Mexico by being picked up by Geocachers who leave them at another Geocache a bit further north each time.
If you fall in love with a Geocache Monarch and are having a
hard time sending it on its way, remember that it was meant to
fly free. Please let it go, so that it has a chance of making
it to the Great White North. If you send a SASE to Dragon's Eye,
I'll gladly send you an untagged but autographed one to keep
you company forever.
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Geocaching is a kind of a treasure hunting game played with a GPS (global positioning satellites) unit.
Locations of geocaches are recorded at www.geocaching.com. When you find the "treasure", the custom is to
take something from it and to leave something behind. There's also a
little notebook included, to leave a message. Here's my friend
thinking what he's going to write. 
A friend taking photos of fireflies. See the firefly
right in the middle of the picture?
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