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Preserve our Wilderness LbNA #5206

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 7, 2003
Location:
City:St. Helen
County:Roscommon
State:Michigan
Boxes:1
Planted by:DogIsMyCoPirate
Found by: Thumb's Up!
Last found:Mar 31, 2006
Status:Faa
Last edited:May 7, 2003
Preserve Our Wilderness
(#1 in the Dog Scouts of America “We Can Make A Difference” series)

The MICRO letterboxes in this series all have to do with ecology and preserving our resources. They are all in smallish Tupperware-type containers which aren’t completely watertight. Multiple zip-loc baggies protect the box, along with a hiding place that provides shelter and drainage. Please be sure to put the box back exactly as found, to preserve it’s contents. All good Dog Scouts want to clean up their environment. Please be sure to pick up any trash you see as you are on your way to discover this letterbox. See the Dog Scouts of America web site: www.dogscouts.org

Location: State Forest land in Richfield Township, St. Helen, in Roscommon County, Michigan
Placed: May 7, 2003
By: Dog Is My CoPirate (Saikou and me)
Clue difficulty: Easy
Terrain: Easy to Moderate (sloping two-track with some raspberry bushes and minimal off-trail walking)
Distance: Short walk from where you will park your vehicle.
Walking time: 15 minutes
Box: Small food container (3” by 3” by 1 ½”) with clear bottom and pink lid in a zip-loc baggie
Contact to report problems or condition of box: @dogscouts.com
Hyperlink to web page with this and other boxes in this series on it: http://www.geocities.com/dogscout2000/DogIsMyCoPirate.html

This letterbox is in State land off Snake Trail. To get there, take Dunham Lake Road to a place a mile or so south of East West Branch Road, and a couple of miles north of Railroad Grade Road (GPS Coordinates: N 44 15.919; W084 22.971). This is where Dunham Lake Road meets Snake Trail (marked with hand made signs on the trees). Go east on Snake Trail to the first two-track you come to on the left.

Park your car, as you will not want to drive down the two-track. There are raspberry bushes to drive over and branches to scratch the sides of your vehicle, and several downed tree trunks across the trail. It’s not a very far walk.

You’ll go down a hill and start to go slightly uphill again. You’ll come across a “fork” in the road… It’s really just the same road curving back on itself (it makes a circle). As you get to the furthermost north end of the trail, as it turns around to loop back in the other direction, you’ll see a tree to the left of the trail with a large section of root above the ground. It looks like an “elbow” covered with moss.

From this point, take a 318 degree heading and go 24 steps into the woods. There you will find an old, withered, hollow stump, with part of the remainder of the tree (or a different one) lying across it. The letterbox is under the trunk section in the hollow stump. You do not have to lift the trunk to get at the box. But if you’re squeamish about reaching your hand into a hole you can’t see into, there’s a ½” diameter little tree lying sideways under the big log. Lift up on that, and you lift the log, like a lid, without disturbing it, and can get a peek at the box.