2022 Scouting America National Outdoor Ethics & Conservation Conference
Conference Materials
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Pre-Conference Workshops
| Description | Presenters |
|---|---|
Distinguished Conservation Service Award Workshop |
Mike Huneke, Steve Scannel |
Council Outdoor Ethics Advocate Workshop |
John Gonering, Michelle Bierstadt |
General Sessions
| Description | Presenters |
|---|---|
Opening Session - Thursday Evening
|
Scott Anderson, Charlie Thorpe, Dave O'Leary |
General Session - Friday Morning
|
Scott Anderson |
General Session - Friday LunchLeave No Trace Teaching Tips |
Elena Miyasato and Jesse Velleu, Subaru / Leave No Trace Team |
General Session - Friday AfternoonLeave No Trace Organizational Report and Updates |
JD Tanner, Director of Education and Training for Leave No Trace |
General Session - Friday Evening
|
Scott Anderson, Mike Huneke |
General Session - Saturday Morning
|
Scott Anderson, Mark Hammer |
General Session - Saturday AfternoonGreen Crew Website |
Joseph Barisonzi and Scouting America Venture Crew 3311 |
Keynote - Saturday EveningNature's Best Hope(Note - Presentation was not recorded. The link is to his presentation given to another group.) |
Prof. Douglas Tallamy |
Closing Session - Saturday Evening
|
Scott Anderson |
Program Sessions
| Name | Affiliation | Category | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday Session 1 - 9:00-9:45 | ||||
| Al Fazenbaker | Great Trail Council | Conservation | Best Practices for Building Hiking Trials | This presentation walks you through the process of designing, constructing, and maintaining sustainable hiking trails in your Council camp. Many camps throughout the country have old trails, often neglected, often poorly designed. Using "best practices" developed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Appalachian Trail Committee, and the National Park Service, you can take home some ideas on creating or restoring the trails in your Council camps. |
| John Gonering, Michelle Bierstedt |
California Inland Empire Council Sioux Council |
Outdoor Ethics | Council Outdoor Ethics Advocate Training | Training for new (and experienced) Council Outdoor Ethics Advocates. |
| Shawn Spencer | Greater New York Councils | Outdoor Ethics | Outdoor Ethics for the Cub Scout | This session will address
teaching Outdoor Ethics to the Cub Scout (and their family). Starting with the activities and posters recently developed by the Cub Scout Working Group that help to make it easy for the Cub Leaders to include Ooutdoor Ethics in the program; then looking at the change of Achievements in Cub program. Finally, since Cubbing is a family program, we look at the critical role that the "family" plays in learning, developing and implementing good Outdoor Ethics. |
| Friday Session 2 - 10:00-10:45 | ||||
| Kris Irwin, Chelsea York |
Project Learning Tree | Conservation | Project Learning Tree: An innovative way to earning merit badges | In this session, participants will examine how the Project Learning Tree (PLT) curriculum can be used to help scouts earn six different merit badges. Using the forestry merit badge as an example, the presenters will demonstrate the value of the PLT curriculum as a teaching tool and describe how they can become trained to use the PLT materials. |
| Friday Session 3 - 11:00-11:45 | ||||
| Shaun Vecera | Hawkeye Area Council | Conservation | Developing a Council Conservation Plan: An Example from the Hawkeye Area Council | Scout councils are tasked with developing conservation plans to guide the stewardship of their properties. This presentation will describe the process used by the Hawkeye Area Council to create a conservation plan that spans goals for 5 years, yearly priorities, and regular monthly tasks for each month of the year. The session will include opportunities for questions about our process and feedback on the approach. |
| Pastor Scott Johnston | Mason-Dixon Council | Outdoor Ethics | Council-Level OE Programming | Outdoor Ethics programming at the council level is more than just putting on a Leave No Trace Trainer course once a year. Learn how to implement a broad range of Outdoor Ethics activities and training courses as part of a robust annual Outdoor Ethics program. |
| Charlie Thorpe, Jeff Marion | Greater Alabama Council, Blue Ridge Mountain Council | Outdoor Ethics | The Science and Fun of Hammock Camping | Scouting hammock camping: the Scouting America guidelines, science, ethics and fun! Does typical hammock camping tend to cause more...or less...impacts than typical tent camping? Do you have to sleep bent like a banana? What about the "freezing your bippy" rumors? Hammock homework involved. |
| Friday Session 4 - 2:15-3:00 | ||||
| Matthew Durrant | Crossroads of the West Council | Conservation | Building Effective Partnerships with Federal, State and Local Land Management Agencies | This session will provide an approach to build meaningful and lasting partnerships with the agencies, organizations, and individuals that manage lands. These agencies can include federal, state, local, or private managers. We will especially focus on public lands but there will be discussion about private partnerships. We will address why forming a partnership is important and what a partnership is; key components of partnership development; a three-step approach to forming a partnership and managing partnerships. The importance of building a unifying vision that will guide effective partnerships will be a key component of this session. |
| Mike Huneke | Baltimore Area Council | Conservation | The Camp Conservation Plan: What is it and how do we obtain one? | Did you know that our council camps are required to have a camp conservation plan? This session will discuss what is required, how to obtain a plan and how to get financial assistance for your plan. |
| Suse Bell, Josh Lamothe |
Northern New Jersey Council | Outdoor Ethics | Organizing and Delivering Leave No Trace 101 | Leave No Trace 101 is a flexible and robust syllabus to introduce the Principles of Leave No Trace to a Scouting audience. Learn how to tailor the curriculum in order to deliver it effectively to different Scouting constituencies. |
| Pete Haring | Mobile Area Council | Outdoor Ethics | Outdoor Ethics for Sea Scouts | Introduce concept of Leave No Trace / Tread Lightly! in a maritime environment. |
| Friday Session 5 - 3:15-4:00 | ||||
| Mike Huneke | Baltimore Area Council | Conservation | Field Session: Winter Tree Identification Interpretive Hike | Join Certified Forester Mike
Huneke on an interpretive hike around camp to learn about trees in the winter
time. We will discuss tips for leading an interpretive hike with youth while learning about the trees at camp. (No presentation) |
| Paul Schimke | National Capital Area Council | Outdoor Ethics | Outdoor Ethics Guide Course | We all know about the Outdoor Ethics Guide position and have seen the Handbook, but how do you actually operationalize this position of responsibility to have the greatest positive impact in your unit? Join Outdoor Ethics Guides and adult advisors for an in-person session to learn best practices, meet other Outdoor Ethics Guides and adult advisors, share experiences, discuss ways to overcome challenges, and create a network of Outdoor Ethics Guides across NCAC. |
| Jeff Marion | Blue Ridge Mountains Council | Outdoor Ethics | Phone Apps: A New Leave No Trace Tool | An increasing number of outdoor visitors are using phone apps for navigation. The LNT community could work towards including basic to comprehensive low impact practices in these phone apps so visitors can access it any time/any place when needed. Phone apps can also accurately direct visitors to the most sustainable campsites and reveal when they are too close to water, trails, or other campsites. |
| Saturday Session 1 - 9:00-9:45 | ||||
| David Hatch | Crossroads of the West Council | Outdoor Ethics | Steps: Do we really know our impact? | It only takes 25 repeated steps in the same location to kill many native vegetation species. This session will give a stronger foundation of why Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces should be emphasized when planning an activity in the outdoors. We will take a hands-on look at the impact of a 10 person week long base camp in the backcountry that is in a primitive untouched location that has been approved by the land owner. |
| Al Fazenbaker | Great Trail Council | Conservation | Repurposing at The Building Level: How to Create a Nature Center From An Abandoned Building | Our Council had operated for nearly a Century without a permanent Nature Center. An opportunity to acquire an abandoned building at the camp opened up the possibilities of creating a new space. Not without its challenges, a discussion of what went well, what was a challenge, and how the project appears today. |
| Axel Anderson | Michigan Crossroads | Outdoor Ethics | Charlie Thorpe and Leave No Trace in Scouting America | A videotaped interview with Charlie Thorpe about the introduction of Leave No Trace into Scouting America as well as his encounter with Cheryl Strayed, author of "Wild". |
| Pastor Scott Johnston | Mason-Dixon Council | Outdoor Ethics | Conducting a Leave No Trace Trainer Course | This session presents a detailed overview of the curriculum, budget and logistical considerations to deliver a top-notch Leave No Trace Trainer course in your council. |
| Saturday Session 2 - 10:00-10:45 | ||||
| Matthew Durrant | Crossroads of the West Council | Conservation | 19th-Century Romanticism in the Arts and the American Conservation Movement | The arts in the 19th century were characterized by a fascination with the sublime and transcendent qualities of nature. While the Enlightenment focused on rational thought, reason, and the scientific method, Romanticism rejected these ideas in favor of emotional expression, irrationality, and aesthetic beauty. In the United States, Romantic landscape artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Thomas Cole were instrumental in persuading the public and government officials of the need to preserve the magnificent landscapes of the west. This lecture will discuss how the arts played a significant role in the development of the early conservation movement of the United States. |
| Mike Huneke | Baltimore Area Council | Conservation | Wildland Fire Prevention: Reducing risk at camp properties | In recent years, several of our Scout camp properties have been damaged by catastrophic wildfire. In this session, we will discuss practices for reducing the risk of damage caused by wildfire, where to get technical assistance and funding for mitigation practices. |
| Paul Schimke | National Capital Area Council | Outdoor Ethics | Marketing the Council OE Program | All the work we put into programming is for naught if no one comes to participate in those programs. Learn tips and tricks for marketing council-level Outdoor Ethics programming to increase attendance and visibility. |
| Maria Brown | Southern Sierra Council | Outdoor Ethics | The Four P's and How Women's Hygiene Challenges Make Women Insecure About Outdoor Recreation | Girls and women are coming into Scouting America programs in ever-increasing numbers, but their leaders aren't always confident or prepared to answer their hygiene questions. This class seeks to provide outdoor ethics trainers with practical, no-nonsense information that will enhance any trainer's toolbox and support the training provided to leaders and scouts in their councils. |
| Saturday Session 3 - 11:00-11:45 | ||||
| Stephen Scannell | Western Massachusetts Council | Conservation | Planning and Delivering a Conservation-themed Camporee | This interactive discussion will focus on planning and presenting a camporee with a conservation theme. The focus will be administering hands-on presentations with partner conservation agencies and NGOs to demonstrate career opportunities in the conservation field and using these demonstrations to spark interest in potential career opportunities for Scouts. Timetables, contact leads, review of resources required, suggestions for activities, and potential merit badge requirements that may be fulfilled will be covered. |
| Amy Nees | Illowa Council | Outdoor Ethics | We Need to Talk, PERIOD | Being able to have conversations with Scouts and leaders about menstruation is important for land management, wildlife management, plus the health and safety of Scouting units. How do we launch those conversations and how do we avoid them being awkward? This session will allow space for sharing ideas around removing the taboo from period talk so that we, as our Council's outdoor educators, can facilitate discussion that will benefit our members and camps. |
| Mark Hammer | Adventure West Council | Outdoor Ethics | Website, Flyer, and Online Registration Workshop | Bring your promotional
materials to get feedback on how to make them more effective. (Discussion, no presentation.) Related: Promotion Guidelines. |
| Saturday Session 4 - 1:00-1:45 | ||||
| Stephen Scannell | Western Massachusetts Council | Conservation | Distinguished Conservation Service Award Informational Session | This session gives a high-level overview of the Distinguished Conservation Service Award, with an emphasis on the procedures for council administration of the award. |
| Ted Vinson | Atlanta Area Council | Outdoor Ethics | NCAP Short-Term Camp: What You Need To Know To Run Weekend Events | Any overnight council- or district-sponsored activity lasting 3 nights or less qualifies as a Short-Term Camp and must follow applicable NCAP standards. Leave No Trace Trainer courses that run over a weekend qualify, whether they are held at a Scouting America-owned property or at another facility. This session will provide an overview of the NCAP-related considerations needed to run such a course successfully. |
| Kerin Farrell | Sam Houston Area Council | Outdoor Ethics | Not Just for Girls: Doing Outdoors What We Do Indoors | During outdoor adventures, there are choices to be made relating to our gear, health, and hygiene. Some are specific to women. Come learn some of the science behind those options, how to prepare for your outside adventure, and how to deal with our human issues. Discussion and visual aids will include the options and differences in clothing and gear, dealing with our moments of modesty, and options for handling a woman's menstrual cycle in the field. This course is recommended for leaders with youth or adult females in their unit. This is a co-ed class. |
| Jeffrey Marion | Blue Ridge Mountains Council | Outdoor Ethics | The Science of Sustainable Camping | This session will present a Leave No Trace perspective on sustainable camping options, including dispersed pristine site camping to camping on established or designated campsites. The scientific basis for these practices will be presented and discussed. |
| Saturday Session 5 - 2:00-2:45 | ||||
| Larry Swanson | Blackhawk Area | Conservation | Promoting the Distinguished Conservation Service Award | A roundtable discussion on how to promote the Distinguished Conservation Service Award to Scouts, leaders,
districts and councils. (Discussed DCSA Info - no presentation) |
Tabletop Displays
| Description | Name |
|---|---|
| Outdoor Code History | Mark Hammer |
| OE Promotion Guidelines | Mark Hammer |
