Here are some tips to do your part in keeping your campsite bear free.

Hand Signals while riding with traffic will help prevent an accident between yourself and the other vehicles on the road.  

There is an old saying, "wise as an owl". People are always saying that, but the truth is, owls were not always wise.

Where you live within the US determines what kind of plants will grow in your area. 

With summer starting, it is always a good reminder to all leaders and youth about what to do when you are lost.

This is an extremely easy backpacking meal to put together and dehydrate yourself in preparations of your next backpacking trip.

The first requirement of the Tiger Theater elective asks that with your den discuss the following types of theater: puppet shows, reader’s theater, and pantomime. Now on with the show!

It's springtime! At our home that usually means it's time to start planting some seeds in the garden.  There is some truth behind the old saying, "April Showers Bring May Flowers."  So this weekend we paid a visit to our local nursery in order to complete part of requirement 2b in the Gardening Merit Badge.

Each Thursday I like to take a look in the library at some of the scout handbooks from prior years.  This one comes out of the 1976 printing of the Bear Cub Scout Book.

Fun dinosaur matching game for your scouts to play.  This could also be used as a gathering activity to maximize your time with den or pack meetings.

This last weekend we had a BLAST with our troop. We combined an over night camp with a Saturday of launching our model rockets that we build the prior weeks during patrol meetings.

One thing to always remember about these amazing animals when you encounter them out in the wild is simply that… they are wild.  Bison have the capability of sprinting up to 30 miles per hour. When was the last time you were able to run that fast?! 

One of the key elements of any scout meeting is the flag ceremony...

Located in the Dixie National Forest, Yant Flat is a hidden gem of a hike as it is not to well known as of yet just outside of St. George, UT.

Last patrol meeting we learned the difference between a wet fly and dry fly in regards to the fly fishing merit badge...

The Wolf Elective Adventure, Code of the Wolf, has a requirement that can involve my favorite little candies.  And with the kids still on sugar overload from Easter, I'm sure they wont miss a couple of packages to be used for this post.

Found on page 224 of the 1959 6th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook, the Outdoor Code reminds us of America's natural resources and how to conserve them.

For the Tiger Elective, Tiger-iffic, requirement 4b. asks you to share at least three tips that would help someone who was learning how to play your favorite video game.

One of the great attributes of Scouting is that it teaches young men to work together to achieve a common goal. A Team can always do more by working together than they can do by working individually. Teamwork can bring out the best in all who are involved. An amazing example of this can be found in the story of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

Babe the Blue Ox was a great help around Paul Bunyan's logging camp. He could pull anything that had two ends...