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in Miscellaneous by RuiASP (200 points)
I recently asked an EC reviewer from Germany. "because of historical reasons" was the answer.

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It was an agreement between groundspeak and the geological society of america. the following link has a brief description. (http://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Education_Careers/Field_Experiences/EarthCache/GSA/fieldexp/EarthCache/about.aspx)

ive often thought a history cache  (not sure of the name) would be a good addition where you could highlight a area for a specific historical reason but with its own cache icon. That is very unlikely mind so we will have to stick with trads for the time being
by NSCR (4.5k points)
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It's a choice from GS. I can't explain why geologics more than other life science but maybe there's some good reasons.

It should be very interesting to expand the concept to others sciences (Botanic is a perfect example) but i wonder how GS want to reduce the virtual caches (caches without physical items).
by DaneteYaourth (3.1k points)
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Perhaps it's to promote the 'Geo' in 'Geocaching'. There isn't much else that separates geology from the other fields and yet these others are limited to multi's and puzzles. I think there would be too many types of caches if they included all sciences.
by Potatonator (11.3k points)
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I also find that the earthcache is limited to mineralogy, opening to the biology of trees seeing insects would be rewarding ... vote +1

traduit par google du francais

je trouve aussi domage que les earthcache soit limité a la minéralogie, ouvrir à la biologie des arbres voir des insectes serait enrichissants ... vote +1

by Chup'a (11.2k points)
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The field of botanics is just too large. Imagine the number of different species of plants on a single geological feature. Also botanics are not permanent like geological features. They die.
by ChrisDen (4.1k points)
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Late to the discussion, but depending on your definition of bio cache and botanical cache, this seems impractical.

Earthcaches based off geology work well as geocachers, because a well planned earthcache subject will be relatively unchanged from month to month.

Bio cache: would this be based off animal habitat? Animals have a habit of moving around and keeping to their own schedule. How would this be tied to precise coordinates, unless these are limited to zoos or other contained environments?

Botanical cache: OK, a little better, most trees and plants tend not to hunt or migrate, so this could be more feasible. There's still a limit though - you'd need some guarantee of permanence. A cache based on an outcrop of flowers is going to require a lot more oversight than one based on a saguaro cactus.
by hzoi (8.1k points)
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