1. Leave No Trace in BSA Advancement and Awards

2. Leave No Trace in BSA Advancement and Awards
Goal: As a result of this session, each participant will be able to discuss references to Leave No Trace in the Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturing Advancement and Awards programs.

3. Cub Scout Advancement Tigers Wolves Bears Tigers in the Wild
Call of the Wild
Paws on the Path
Bears
Bear Necessities (No explicit Leave No Trace requirements)

4. Cub Scout Advancement Webelos Arrow of Light Webelos Walkabout Camper
Scouting Adventure

5. Evolution of Outdoor Ethics in Cub Scout Advancement
Listen Recite Discuss Demonstrate Explain

6. Cub Scout Advancement Tigers in the Wild Requirement 3:
Listen while your leader reads the Outdoor Code. Talk about how you can be clean in your outdoor manners.
Listen while your leader reads the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids. Discuss why you should “Trash Your Trash.”
Apply the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids on your Tiger den and pack outings. After one outing, share what you did to demonstrate the principles you discussed.

7. Cub Scout Advancement Call of the Wild requirement 7
Recite the Outdoor Code with your leader.
Recite the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. Talk about how these principles support the Outdoor Code.
After your campout, list the ways you demonstrated being careful with fire.

8. Cub Scout Advancement Paws on the Path requirement 5
Before hiking, recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. After hiking, discuss how you showed respect for wildlife.

9. Cub Scout Advancement
Bear Necessities (No explicit Leave No Trace requirements)
While working on your Bear badge, camp overnight with your pack. If your chartered organization does not permit Cub Scout camping, you may substitute a family campout or a daylong outdoor activity with your den or pack.
Attend a campfire show, and participate by performing a song or skit with your den.
Make a list of items you should take along on your campout.
Make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in addition to each Scout’s personal gear.
With your den, plan a cooked lunch or dinner that is nutritious and balanced. Make a shopping list, and help shop for the food. On a campout or at another outdoor event, help cook the meal and help clean up afterward.
Help your leader or another adult cook a different meal from the one you helped prepare for requirement 5. Cook this meal outdoors.

10. Cub Scout Advancement Webelos Walkabout requirement 5
Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids from memory. Talk about how you can demonstrate them on your Webelos adventures.

11. Cub Scout Advancement Camper requirement 7
Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids from memory. Talk about how you can demonstrate them while you are working on your Arrow of Light. After one outing, list the things you did to follow the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace.

12. Cub Scout Advancement Scouting Adventure requirement 1
Repeat from memory the Outdoor Code. In your own words, explain what the Outdoor Code means to you.

13. Cub Scout Awards Outdoor Activity Award
Different requirements for each rank
Requirements based on Adventures which include Leave No Trace
Participate in outdoor activities: (4,5,6,7)
Nature hike
Picnic or park fun day
Explain the buddy system
Pack overnighter
Outdoor service project
Nature/conservation project
Earn the Summertime Pack Award
Nature observation activity
Outdoor aquatics activity
Outdoor campfire program
Outdoor sporting event
Outdoor interfaith or other worship service.
Explore a local city, county, state, or national park
Invent an outside game and play it outside

14. Evolution of Outdoor Ethics in Boy Scout Advancement
Repeat & Explain Demonstrate Teach

15. Boy Scout Advancement
Scout 1.e. Repeat from memory the Outdoor Code. In your own words, explain what the Outdoor Code means to you.

16. Boy Scout Advancement
Tenderfoot 1.c. Tell how you practiced the Outdoor Code on a campout or outing.

17. Boy Scout Advancement
Second Class 1.b. Explain the principles of Leave No Trace and tell how you practiced them on a campout or outing. This outing must be different from the one used for Tenderfoot requirement 1c.

18. Boy Scout Advancement
First Class 1.b. Explain each of the principles of Tread Lightly! and tell how you practiced them on a campout or outing. This outing must be different from the ones used for Tenderfoot requirement 1c and Second Class requirement 1b.

19. Boy Scout Advancement
Star, Life, and Eagle While a First Class Scout, serve actively in your troop for four/six months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-approved leadership project to help the troop):

20. Merit Badges
Merit Badges which specifically mention the Outdoor Code, Leave No Trace, Tread Lightly!, or the Outdoor Code:
Architecture
Backpacking
Camping
Climbing
Fishing
Fly Fishing
Geocaching
Hiking

21. Merit Badges
Merit Badges which specifically mention the “Low Impact” or “No Trace”
Cooking
Signs, Signals, and Codes

22. Boy Scout Outdoor Ethics Awards
Outdoor Ethics Awareness
Explain the Outdoor Code
Watch the NPS Leave No Trace video
Complete the Leave No Trace and Tread Lightly! online courses
Participate in an Outdoor Ethics workshop or training

23. Boy Scout Outdoor Ethics Awards
Outdoor Ethics Action Award
Earn the Outdoor Ethics Awareness Award.
Complete the BSA outdoor ethics orientation course
Explain the Outdoor Code 
Read Chapter 7 of the Boy Scout Handbook on Leave No Trace
Teach a skill related to the Outdoor Ethics
Outdoor Ethics Guide or participate in an OE outing
3 outings and report on what you did for OE
Service activity related to recreational impacts
Make presentation of service activity

24. Boy Scout Awards Firem’n Chit National Medal for Outdoor Achievement
National Outdoor Awards
Totin’ Chip
Wilderness Pledge Achievement Award
National Outdoor Challenge Award (Unit Award)

25. Venturing Ranger Award Leave No Trace Core Requirement
Recite and explain the principles of Leave No Trace.
Participate in three separate camping/backpacking trips demonstrating that you know and use Leave No Trace principles.
Make a tabletop display or presentation on the Leave No Trace principles and how they affect the environment and attitude of campers for your crew, another crew, a Cub or Boy Scout group, or another group or teach a Leave No Trace Awareness course.

26. Venturing Outdoor Ethics Awards
Outdoor Ethics Awareness
Explain the Outdoor Code
Watch the NPS Leave No Trace video
Complete the Leave No Trace and Tread Lightly! online courses
Participate in an Outdoor Ethics workshop or training
SAME AS BOY SCOUT

27. Venturing Outdoor Ethics Awards
Outdoor Ethics Action Award
Earn the Outdoor Ethics Awareness Award
Complete the BSA outdoor ethics orientation course
Explain the Outdoor Code 
Read Chapter 7 of the Fieldbook on Leave No Trace; review The Land Ethic in A Sand County Almanac
Explore the ethical viewpoints of Leave No Trace and Tread Lighlty!
Leave No Trace/Tread Lightly! Trainer/OE Officer/participate in OE outing
Teach a skill related to Outdoor Ethics
Meet with a Land Manager
Service activity related to recreational impacts
Lead event educating public about issues from activity

28. Venturing Awards National Medal for Outdoor Achievement
National Outdoor Awards
Wilderness Pledge Achievement Award

29. Leave No Trace in BSA Advancement and Awards
Questions?

30. Prepared by Joshua Lamothe Revised: May 2017 Sources:
Guide to Advancement (2017)
Cub Scout Requirements
Scouting.org/scoutsource/OutdoorProgram/OutdoorEthics/Awards
Scouting.org/meritbadges
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