On Saturday, April 5, over 75 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts at the Dan Beard Scout Reservation and over 30 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts at Camp Michaels learned about conservation while helping our camps at the spring Camp Conservation Day.
Hundreds of sapling trees were planted along the banks of the Little Miami River. Scouts also staked protective tubes over the trees to protect them from hungry deer and the elements.
Invasive honeysuckle was removed from the woods around the Mountain Man Village at Cub World, preparing the area for new natural growth.
Everyone was treated to a hot lunch, prepared with an emphasis on environmental soundness and using only biodegradable products.
Scouts camping for the weekend were invited to a cracker barrel on Saturday evening.
The Dan Beard Council future conservationalists.
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This is a complicated issue, Mike, and as a fomerr non-traditional environmental educator myself who worked in public schools, I do appreciate your point. However, pragmatically speaking, it’s got to be a good thing to have funding and a stamp of approval from Congress that kids doing anything outdoors is important. In most communities, we are so far away from permitting and encouraging kids to be in any outdoor environment not otherwise doing sports, I’d like to believe this is a step in the right direction. However, I am not so naive as to think that this program, if funded, won’t result in some structured, typical environmental ed programming that doesn’t particularly benefit kids. But I would bet that in some places in the US where funding got allocated, there would be a non-traditional environmental educator who would create a Wild Zone , or who would take kids into the woods to build forts, or play in stream beds. All it takes is a few people to start a movement. I think a more strategic effort would be to advocate at the state and local levels for the funding to be used in these more appropriate ways.
This is a complicated issue, Mike, and as a fomerr non-traditional environmental educator myself who worked in public schools, I do appreciate your point. However, pragmatically speaking, it’s got to be a good thing to have funding and a stamp of approval from Congress that kids doing anything outdoors is important. In most communities, we are so far away from permitting and encouraging kids to be in any outdoor environment not otherwise doing sports, I’d like to believe this is a step in the right direction. However, I am not so naive as to think that this program, if funded, won’t result in some structured, typical environmental ed programming that doesn’t particularly benefit kids. But I would bet that in some places in the US where funding got allocated, there would be a non-traditional environmental educator who would create a Wild Zone , or who would take kids into the woods to build forts, or play in stream beds. All it takes is a few people to start a movement. I think a more strategic effort would be to advocate at the state and local levels for the funding to be used in these more appropriate ways.