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    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      Junior Ranger Badges that dovetail with Cub Scout adventures and activities

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      I forgot a category - National Historic Trails! They often (always?) have Junior Ranger programs, and create engagement with the land as well as local history, and hiking sections of them for all the outdoor adventures that require hiking (so everything except Outdoor Adventurer) doubles up on activities and requirements. Our pack has hiked trails that were prepared on top of El Camino Real de los Tejas and made a stop to complete the Junior Ranger booklet, and we've also used the booklet as a trailhead gathering activity. Since many modern roads in our area started as part of El Camino Real, the cubs get reminded regularly by road signs that we are now driving the same paths that Caddo once created. The trail is still very much here, we have just built on the work of our local predecessors/ancestors so that it doesn't look like a trail anymore in large sections.
    • FireStone
      Pack "soft merger" logistics question - Registered den leaders requirements

      By FireStone · Posted

      My pack is taking in another local pack that has had dwindling membership. We're not merging officially, yet, but the other pack will attend all of our den and pack meetings and activities. Packs will remain separate in registration, finance, charter, rosters, etc. Just functionally work together.  What is the requirement for number of registered den leaders needed for both packs if we're working together? Do both packs still need the requisite 2 registered DLs per den? So if our Bears den has the other pack's Bears den at our den meetings, does the other pack's Bears den still need registered leaders? 
    • RememberSchiff
      Scouts in Action - Hurry up cardiac emergency (MI)

      By RememberSchiff · Posted

      A historical note, Dr. Peter Safar is regarded as the father of CPR , particularly mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Since 2008?, Hands-only-CPR is the more common response. Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's, Dr. Peter Safar, an Austrian anesthesiologist, "validated the effectiveness of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Dr. Safar ran an intriguing experiment. He anesthetized and medically paralyzed healthy volunteers, monitoring their vital signs as he tested various ventilation techniques prevalent during that time. After demonstrating that the accepted techniques were ineffective, he introduced the new technique of mouth-to-mouth breathing. To further highlight its simplicity, he filmed a young Boy Scout administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a larger man."   More at Source: https://www.ems-history.com/post/dr-peter-safar-discovering-mouth-to-mouth
    • RememberSchiff
      Scouts in Action - Hurry up cardiac emergency (MI)

      By RememberSchiff · Posted

      My scouts have had some interesting discussions during CPR/AED training. Some examples: 1. Treat the patient but also control the response/scene. For example, you have surveyed patient and safely initiated CPR. There are other people there. You have told someone to call 911. Ask if anyone is knows CPR, form a line to relieve me. I need people to fetch AED. I need someone to direct EMTs here.  I need people to help carry patient...Have someone start Timer on their phone. ... Training kicks in and so does thinking. 2. Where are the AEDs in populated? Some older scouts who have visited college campuses often ask this. Where are the signs? One scout mentioned a locator app - PulsePoint AED 3. Can I do Heimlich on my dog? No doubt more ideas and questions are coming.
    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      Junior Ranger Badges that dovetail with Cub Scout adventures and activities

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      Two years ago, our pack started actively providing opportunities to earn the NPS Resource Stewardship Scout Ranger patch. In the process, we've discovered a number of Junior Ranger programs that can be done outside a national park on topics that I thought others might find useful to have a list for as well. We do have a national historical park nearby, but we want to provide more variety of experience and learning for the cubs than doing the entire ten hours just in that one park, and probably few packs have easy access to several NPS parks in the first place, so perhaps some of these will come in handy for others pursuing the Scout Ranger patch as well. Junior Cave Scientist - limestone/karst cave geology and ecology, conservation in karst landscapes. This was a perfect companion for a pack summer limestone cave visit to Cave Without A Name in Texas, and I imagine it would work well in almost any show limestone cave. If you happen to be near Cave Without A Name, you can email them ahead to time to request certain topics on the tour and had I done that, they would have just walked through the Junior Ranger booklet for us. Passing that on for someone else to plan a smoother outing. Getting the badge in the mail requires sending in the completed booklet, so you will need one printed booklet per cub. Some show cave tours may be too fast to allow for the booklet to be worked through, though - Natural Bridge Caverns might not work well here for example. Even without trying to do the booklet, the cubs didn't have time to ask all their questions and linger as long as they wanted. Wildland Fire Junior Ranger - what it sounds like. Pages 3, 8, and 9 connect to Into The Woods re: fire-adapted and fire-aversive ecosystems. Page 16 and 17 relate to wildfire emergency preparedness, potentially useful for the My Safety Be Prepared For Natural Events activity. There is a patch as well as a badge for this, although since I got my cub's patch at a national park I don't know if one can get them in the mail. I don't see any instructions for that in the booklet, but there is an email to email for the badge through the mail. Because you don't have to send in the completed booklet, you could work out of one or a small number of booklets for the group for this one if you wanted.  Junior Ranger Night Explorer - connects to Sky is the Limit, the Let's Camp Tiger Flashlight Tiger Hunt activity (importance of red light instead of white), and Leave No Trace for Kids point 6 (Respect Wildlife) in terms of light pollution. Junior Ranger Let's Go Fishing! - all the fishing adventures, of course. There is a list of all of the themed junior ranger programs that aren't focused on a particular park that you can find a few more in - my cub did a few more based on personal interest, and while they didn't do them all, these were the ones out of the ones they did that make sense to do as a den/patrol and/or pack because of the program tie-ins. Happy Junior Ranger training!      
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