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  1. 2025 Mountain Bike Getaway for Scouting

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  2. Looking for a member

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  3. Camp Counselor found after suspected drowning (MI)

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  4. How Bear Creek Scout Reservation in Hunt, TX fared in the July 4 flash floods

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  5. FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers clear Hurricane Helene damage from Camp Grimes (NC)

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  6. Scout dies in boating accident, Lake Manning, Camp Bell (Gilmanton, NH)

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  7. Sharing campsite shower/restroom facility 1 2 3

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  8. National Camp Standards 2024 (376 pages)

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  9. Conservation project thrives at Northern Lights Council's Camp Wilderness

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  10. Chain of command in boy scouts' leadership position (Scouts Leadership hierarchy) 1 2

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  11. Scouter rescued by 4 Eagle Scout Lifeguards (KY)

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  12. Classic; often root of great skits and take-offs. 1 2

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  13. Camps Where SCOUTS Cook Meals 1 2 3 4 5

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  14. Summer Camp Alternative 1 2 3

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  15. Fish Stories From Scout Camp

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  • LATEST POSTS

    • DuctTape
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By DuctTape · Posted

      I would rather a troop not have a "meeting" if they are doing a different activity that week. Meetings are there to support the program; most of the program exists (or should) outside of those meetings. IMO Scouting has dropped off b/c there is too much focus on the meetings, and classroom stuff and not enough in the out of outdoors. When scouting is too much like school with some weekend field-trips then it isn't scouting. Retention and engagement metrics in an adult-led, classroom style program is bad data.
    • InquisitiveScouter
      CORs : change

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      Concur with your assessment.  My extended guess... National wants to move more rapidly with consolidation of councils, and this will prepare the way...
    • Tron
      Delaying BOR because...committee meeting for another troop and a holiday?

      By Tron · Posted

      So with your free time, and your buddies free time, it sounds like the perfect seed to start a takeover of the troop. 
    • Tron
      CORs : change

      By Tron · Posted

      Every time I have seen a structured removal of voting ability or removal of input ability it was caused by the ruling bodies desire to remove or reduce dissent to a pending action. I've seen this in other non-profits and in local governments. This type of action always preceded a controversial policy change.  I wonder if this is the fallout of the Nassau and Norfolk councils voting to not merge and then being forced to after all of Long Island scouting went bankrupt? There are a lot of councils just digging in and refusing to be part of the team right now. Is this a mechanism to remove the dissent at the various localish levels? 
    • Tron
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By Tron · Posted

      That's not what any of the numbers state, it's not what I see, it's not what national reports as seeing, we're at 25% of peak headcount and it's a known fact that lack of meeting = lack of engagement = program decline. Open any of the guides, the cub scout guides, the troop leader guides, the committee guides; national tells us in every publication that meeting as much as possible, weekly, is the optimal method and that not meeting like this causes a negative affect on retention. 
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