MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL,

BSA OUTDOOR ETHICS ORIENTATION COURSE DATE:

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

WHEN: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

WHERE: Virtually via Go To Meeting

WHO: Scouts and Venturers and Unit Leaders for Troops and Venture units

ABOUT THE COURSE: The goal of the BSA Outdoor Ethics Orientation Course is to introduce the concept of Outdoor Ethics (Leave No Trace, Tread Lightly!, and the Land Ethic) to a group with little experience in outdoor ethics in a fun and engaging way. It should help youth and adults at all program levels understand the general principles behind Scouting’s outdoor ethics program. Completing this course is one of the requirements for earning the Outdoor Ethics Awareness Award and/or the Outdoor Ethics Action Award. Unit leaders, by encouraging your youth to participate in this course allows you complete requirement 7 for the Outdoor Ethics Action Award FORMAT: Virtual. Each participant must attend the full session to receive credit

COST: $5.00 per person includes certificate card and recognition

TRAINERS: Wayne Gross and Dave Karner, Leave No Trace Master Educators and the MTC Leave No Trace Trainers Team

QUESTIONS: Contact Wayne E. Gross, Leave No Trace Master Educator Minsi Trails Council Outdoor Ethics Advocate email: wegseg@msn.com

Registration deadline is Monday November 23, 2020

A follow up email with the Go To Meeting information to access the virtual training course. "The mission of Leave No Trace is to protect the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly." -From the mission statement of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics

"Leave this world a little better than you found it" Lord Robert Baden Powell