Stumbled across a cache

[CharlesHarris]

In my survey work befoee I retired I have also come across caches placed by others. I would generally leave them alone, in case they may be booby trapped. But I would geocode the location and leave a business card in glassine envelope nailed to a blaze of flagging tape near the location.

Our procedure that if the cache was on private property the county engineer would contact the land owner and if they were aware of it, that was the end of it. If they were not aware, an arson investigator and EOD team with dog would be sent to inspect it. If deemed hazardous, it would be removed. If contents were harmless they would be inventoried and replaced unless the landowner requested their removal.

Our county was widely used up through the Cold War period as a military training area, and while sweeps for UXB were made, we did find interesting things on rare occasion.

But these days more concerned with precursors for meth labs or terrorist bomb factories. These have several of each in the 24 years before I retired.