Geocaching: A High-Tech Hunt for Minnesota History

Geocaching, a kind of high-tech treasure hunt, is at the center of a new program that Minnesota State Parks is rolling out for the summer of 2008 in celebration of the state’s 150th birthday. Geocaching, which has become very popular in the past few years, is a modern hide-and-seek game using GPS (global positioning system) devices to track down a stash hidden at a location that has been posted on a website by latitude and longitude. The GPS is a hand-held, computerized navigational tool used to track these global coordinates via satellite technology.

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The Minnesota Zoo will debut a major new, permanent exhibit called Russia’s Grizzly Coast on June 7, 2008. This $23.6 million project re-creates the habitat of the little-known Kamchatka Peninsula, a wilderness area along Russia’s far eastern coast.

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