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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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BOY SCOUTS AND FORESTS 105
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The Camp is Ready, the tents, well floored to prevent dampness, are up and the cosily blanketed cots are ready to go under CANVAS. includes everything that creeps or flies or runs. A covering of new snow becomes a fascinating book upon whose pages are traced the pranks, the squabbles and struggles of the woods folk. Then, too, there are numerous games to which the woods form the best setting. The pursuit of big game by marking the trail with tracking irons fastened to the shoes of the boy chosen to represent the quarry, limitless varia- tions of the reenactment of our ances- tor's struggles with robbers and Indians, and minature models of the war games played by the army make up the admirable collections of contests com- piled for the use of Scouts by the National Headquarters. It is the chase, the mimic warfare with robbers or Indians, the hidden camp, and roaring fire that appeal to the boy's imagination and develop in him the rugged primitive virtues upon which the superstructure of our modern life is built. The permanent camp is even better for this purpose than the short hike and every Boy Scout organization has come to realize that camping out in the woods gives an opportunity to educate, or draw out, the boy in a way that no other surroundings will. Scout and Scoutmaster come closer together and gain mutual respect in the common performance of camp duties and pleas- ures. As an illustration of how per- manent camps are conducted in the woods the camp maintained by the Washington Branch may be cited. This was located on the shores of Chesa- peake Beach in a grove of timber. The organization owned a tract of 50 acres at this point which furnished an excellent place for the Scouts to be given practical instruction in the identifica- tion of tree species and the tending of woods. Another year it is planned to start a nursery in order that the boys may learn something about setting out trees. Nearly every local organization now maintains a similar camp, and although a stretch of water in which the boys can swim is essential the presence of woods is equally important. There are so many Scout activities which can only be carried on in a forest that a Boy Scout camp is always located as a matter of course in or near woods. Another illustration of the large role which life in the woods plays in the scheme of Scout instruction is indicated by the first and second class Scout

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