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Camp Turrell2014 Summer Camp

Leaders’ Guide

The Rising Star OfNorthern New Jersey Council

Nationally Accredited CampTABLE OF CONTENTS

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1) Leader’s Guide Cover2) Table of Contents

3) Welcome Letter 4) Mission & Goals 5) Camp Turrell History 6) Contact Info 7) Directions 8) Camp Map 9) Camp Description & Session Schedule 10) Camp Fees & Payments/Refunds & Camperships11) What to Bring to Turrell 12) Check-In Procedures & Check-Out Procedures13) Camp Policies 14) Environmental Statement 15) Safety Guidelines & Procedures16) Emergency Procedures17) Bear Policy18) Dining Services & Menu19) Trading Post Hours20) Merit Badge List & Pre-Registration Instructions21) Merit Badge Schedule22) Merit Badge Schedule & Program Description by Area

a. Outdoor Skills: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesb. Waterfront: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesc. Nature: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesd. Handicraft: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitese. Field Sports: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesf. Shooting Sports: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesg. First Aid: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisitesh. Technology Center: Program Schedule & Pre-Requisites

23) Evening Program Schedule with Outposts & Evening Program Descriptions24) Pathfinder Program Project Soaring Eagle25) Adult Leader Training Programs (New): Program Information & Schedule26) Camp Turrell Traditions27) Pre-Registration Form

Welcome to Camp TurrellMarch 1, 2014

Dear Camp Leader,

We are very excited about your participation in the Camp Turrell program and your camping experience this summer. We have assembled an outstanding staff this year, which we believe will make your time in camp enriching and truly memorable. Our program has something for everyone, from the first year camper to the most seasoned camp veteran. Again, welcome to camp!

It took us some time to prepare an interesting new program this year. We gave careful thought to our resources, scouts, leaders, volunteers, and staff to make this year more

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than a success, but a year that builds rich traditions and the scouting spirit amongst our troops. We provide a program for first-year campers that will excite them about scouting and future camp seasons. For the older scouts, we have high adventure programs and a staff that are second to none. We are determined to make your experience at Turrell one that will be memorable and an experience that will stay with you for years to come!!! As a staff, we are very concerned about providing you the best camp has to offer. Every staff member, right down to our Junior Commissioners, has been empowered with the authority to make sure that your expectations are fulfilled. Our approach is two-fold as found in the Scout Motto and Slogan: Be Prepared and Do a Good Turn Daily. We consider you our partners in shaping the lives of the youth we will affect this summer and hope you share our approach with us. We look forward to sharing the warmth of the Scouting Spirit around the campfire this summer!

Please begin preparing for camp by reading this Camp Leaders Guide. Please contact us should you have any questions prior to camp.

Yours In Scouting,

Alex Canale Lucas Birch Geoff GarlickCamp Director Program Director [email protected] [email protected]

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Mission and GoalsThe Boy Scouts of America Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

Camp Turrell 2014 Mission StatementIt is the mission of Camp Turrell to provide a camping environment, program, and staff that develop young people in the areas of character, citizenship, and fitness by living the Scout Oath and Law.

The Scout OathOn my honor I will do my best

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To do my duty to God and my countryAnd to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;To keep myself physically strong,

Mentally awake, and morally straight.

The Scout LawA Scout is trustworthy, loyal,

helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave,

clean, and reverent.


Camp Turrell HistoryDrukker Scout Reservation is located in a historically rich area. The history of the property figured importantly in the Delaware and Hudson Canal and the Ontario and Western Railroad Company. Drukker Scout Reservation history can be traced all the way to when the Irat Indians inhabited it hundreds of years ago.

To start the historical record of Drukker Scout Reservation, one must go back to the Indian tribes who once inhabited it. The Minnisink Tribe or Wolf Tribe were the original inhabitants. They were part of the Lenni Lenape Tribe, which was part of the Delaware Nation and of the Algonquin stock. The Delaware Nation stretched from the Susquehanna River to the West, to the Catskill Mountain Range to the North, to the present day town of Newburgh, to the east, to the area called the Musconetcong, present day Netcong to the South in New Jersey. The Minnisink Indians occupied the area from Peenpack, directly to the camps south, to the Delaware River to the camps west and out towards Otisville to the East. The Delaware Nation came into America, as did all the American Indians through the Bering Strait Passage from present day Russia to Alaska. It is for this reason that one can assume that is why many of the Indian cultures and traditions take on similar appearances.

Some time before 800 BC the first Delaware's came to the western part of the United States. Between 800 and 500 BC, the Lenni Lenape began moving eastward from the Pacific to the Plains, where corn and buffalo were in great numbers. Slowly, but surely the Lenapes made their way to the Namaesispi (Mississippi). Here, they met with the Iroquois Indians and began moving eastward again. The Alligewe at the Mississippi attacked this group. After the group left the region, they decided that the Iroquois would

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take the Northern Region (Great Lakes\NY State) with the Delaware's taking the Southern Region (PA, Lower NY, NJ, and MD). So, in 1396, the 75th ruler King Wolomenap set up his headquarters in Trenton. Here the Lenapes gave up their arms and began agriculture and hunting pursuits. So it is also here that the tribe broke into 3 groups…the Minnisinks, the Esopus and the Cashiegtowks. There is a legend to the origin of the Minnisinks and it follows:

The Minnisinks were a peaceable peoples whom basically labored in agriculture and hunting. They grew corn, beans, and sweet potatoes. They smoked pipe tobacco in what were called pipestoves, which was a tradition brought from the west. The Minnisinks lived in family units built in-groups surrounded by Palisades for protection. They used pottery extensively and made household utensils of stone. The boys of the Minnisinks would go fishing until proving their manhood, and then go hunting proving their worth. They would then marry at 17 or 18. The girls stayed with their mothers to plant corn. They would marry at 13 or 14 and were true servants of their husbands. The men wore dyes for decorative purposes and were will well built wearing only a waistcloth. They were good and quick marksmen with their arrows. They were clever and skilled and used things like copper, lead, and tin. They had a beautiful language, one that William Penn described as "lofty”, like Hebrew in significance.

Penn also described them as hospitable. Many also considered their bravery as the highest and their moral values as high. This is not to say that all settlers saw the Indians in this light, many considered them savages and unscrupulous. One Indian historian wrote of their attachment to relatives and offspring.

The Minnisinks and all the Delaware's were deeply religious. They worshiped light, the 4 winds, and for personal assistance, appealed to animals. When one reads all the material about the Delaware nation, one is left with a positive feeling that these Indians were indeed noble and peace loving. It is ironic to see what happened to all the great Indian tribes when they meet a civilized white society. Today the Minnisinks are an extinct people. In the period between 1500-1600, the Delaware Nation reached its pinnacle of prosperity. The cornfields, workshops, and homes were all numerously located thought out this area.

Perhaps the greatest Delaware Chief of all time was Tamanend. Though he did not live in the immediate area of Drukker Scout Reservation, he was well known thought the Delaware Nation. He resided in Eastern Pennsylvania, which is documented by his signing of a deed in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia in April of 1689. He was a Delaware Chief with none his equal. He was endowed with wisdom, virtue, prudence, charity, meekness, hospitality, in short with every good and noble qualification that a human may posses. He was supposed to have had an intercourse with the great and good spirit, for he was a stranger to everything that was bad.

His name was revered and it was considered a great mark of respect to have his blessing called upon you. His fame extended even to the whites some of who even called him a saint. In the early years of the country, his name was placed on calendars as a saint. His name inspired parties, which through a change in name came to be called Tammany Societies. There were many poems and stories written about Tamanend (or Tammany).

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Here at this point when all the Delaware had reached their pinnacle, they met the first white man. Henry Hudson sailed up the river named after him in 1609. Here he met the Lenni Lenape Indians. Soon as the colonists expanded, more and more Indians began to resent this excursion. Although the Minnisinks fought a major battle, known as "the battle of the Minnisinks", they could not slow the western march of the white man. The Indians retreated westward until the final Minnisink settlement at Nazareth was abandoned in 1792. By the 1768, the Minnisinks had retreated to Ohio.

As more and more Europeans came to America, a number of patents, land grants were drawn between English Kings and private individuals. The Cuddebacks took a patent on what is now called Cuddebackville. The VanEtten family bought a patent on land that includes the Beaver Dam Pond Tract in 1750. The area remained an agricultural one with sawmills and gristmills being the major industries. The Revolution involved many of the area local people. The Westbrooks (Westrookville), and the Cuddebacks (Cuddebackville), were both heroes during the Revolution.

After the American Revolution and early in 1800's Britain began to halt coal supplies being brought into America from Britain. In response to that, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was formed. The Canal would provide for a cheap and economical way of transporting coal and goods into the major trade centers. It was also seen as an economic boom to which all the surrounding areas would be helped. The project was started in 1825 at Wurtsboro and the full length was completed in 1828. The Canal ran 108 miles from the upper reaches of the Hudson Valley to Port Jervis, (the chief engineer's last name was Jervis), and then out to the Delaware. The Canal proved to be a boom for the Oakland Valley-Forestburg area in that it provided the quarries, tanneries, coal mines, and lumber yards an easy access to the great metropolitan areas much more cheaply than by over land wagons. The Canal Company bought literally all the water rights of brooks ponds, and streams along its route to supply it with water. It is here that Drukker Scout Reservation figured prominently. Beaver Dam Pond at the time was only a 5-acre beaver pond. D&H bought the flow rights and dammed up the pond until it reached its present size. Then as water was needed for locks, boards were taken out of the dam and within 4 hours the canal was receiving water from Beaver Dam Pond.

In 1844 an event in far-away Ireland was happening that would have a profound effect in future years, not only in Oakland Valley, but throughout America. During the 1840's Ireland starved as its sole staple, the potato crop was destroyed by the blight. In 1844, a man by the name of Michael Galligan from the Heath County in Ireland arrived on the America shores. He made his way to Oakland Valley and began to work in one of the tanneries that were in the area. A good investor and prudent man, he taught school in Poughkeepsie and invested in land in the Oakland Valley area.

In 1864, Michael Lee Galligan was born just about 1000 feet from the Camp's border. As a boy Michael Lee began working in the quarries that were opening up just north of his house in what is now Drukker Scout Reservation. Soon quarrying was one of the major industries in the area and employed at least 200 people.

In 1868 the Oswego and Weehawken Railroad built a spur from its main line to go from Port Jervis to Monticello. One of its stops was the Oakland Station that is now that area of ground that one drives over at the entrance to the Camp. At the height of operation the train ran twice a day going all the way to Weehawken, New Jersey. Michael Galligan

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soon bought a store right next to the station, which is now the first orange house on the left as you enter the Camp. He carried staple items and supplies that the train riders would need.

As early as 1866 it was rumored that the D&H would be going the way of the sailing ship when it was announced that the O&W, Erie and Penn Railroad Company were interested in buying the old canal bed. But the canal stayed in business until 1896. Though parts of it remained open, it was bought out such companies as Cronell Steamship Company, the Erie Railway and Pennsylvania Coal Company. Soon much of the canal was filled in or fell in disrepair. But along with all this confusion, was the fact that though D&H had the flow rights to Drukker Scout Reservations Pond, The Hartwood Syndicate had the hunting and fishing rights to Beaver Dam Pond, and a third party actually owned the land. This entire mass of deeds and right would not be solved until 70 years later as the Passaic Valley Council went to court in an attempt to get rid of all these liens.

Michael Lee Galligan had a son in June of 1906 who was named Vincent Galligan. He too worked in the quarry and became involved in civic affairs as his father and grandfather had. From 1900-1912 the Iroquois Bottle Works took spring water from the Baker Shanty Spring House, which is the spring house several hundred feet from Camp Kluge. The spring water was bottled and then sold in New York City.

In 1920, Galligan bought what was called the Beaver Dam Tract from the realtor of Dunn and Reilly. The Galligan’s quarrying operation continued on the property in what was probably its greatest era of the prosperity. The 1920's were the boom times. The quarry at Drukker Scout Reservation employed 400 people; the tanneries and the gristmills employed many of the local residents. There was also a tourist boom that saw as many as 300 guests come to Oakland Valley during the summer.

The quarrying industry was totally located on the camp property. The slate was cut in huge squares several inches thick and several feet wide. It was then hand cut and pulled out on carts by ox teams. The quarrying went on though the camps with the site of the Peterson lodge being a central station for bringing in the slate to have it weighed. Men worked in 2 or 3 men teams as the slate was hand cut, moved by derricks and placed in the carts and moved down to the canal or train. Drukker Scout Reservations stone was used for windowsills, sidewalks and curbstones. The slate went as far away as Montreal Canada and New York City. In fact, New York City hall has a sidewalk that was taken from Drukker Scout Reservation.

The last functioning derrick can still is seen about 100 yards from the maintenance yard. Though it has been deteriorated, the gears, posts, guy wires and hardware are still there. If one looks though the vegetation, one can see the mounds of waste slate along with the wall of slate that were not economically feasible to cut.

By 1930 large scale quarrying at Drukker Scout Reservation had ended. An entire industry was extinguished as fast as it had started. The new technology that replaced it was called pre-fabricated cement. There was no need to cut windowsills from slate if you could get the same sill from preformed concrete at a substantial cost saving. And so went quarrying. The area had weathered the great depression, but new technologies continued to take its toll.

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In 1940 Michael Lee Galligan sold his final load of slate from Drukker Scout Reservation. In 1941 Avery Skinner sold the final load of slate. It is his derrick that stands down a way from the maintenance yard.

After Michael Lee Galligan’s death in the early 1940's, a Boy Scout Council from Jersey City looked at the property for a possible use as a camp. Many other have since looked at the camp, but for one reason or another did not purchase the camp. The 1950's and 1960's saw a marked down turn in the area. Quarrying was finished as was tanning with the invention of vinyl. Pottery to went the way of the quarry with the invention of Corelle and plastic taking its place.

In 1964, the O&W had just a freight train a week going through the Oakland Station the tracks from Monticello to Port Jervis spur was taken up. All that remains now is the bed with spikes and ties strewn over it. There is a tremendous display of architecture in a stone bridge over the stream that was built in the 1860's. At the other end of our piece of railroad bed is a watering tower used by the steam engines of 1800's. In walking across the camp property one will notice that the trees are all young. When steam engines rode though, many times they set forest fires from the sparks from the engines. Our camp too suffered from the sparks of an engine.

In 1968, Alhtaha Council negotiated with Margaret Galligan, sister of Vincent Sr., for the Beaver Dam Tract. By 1969, the purchase was negotiated and finalized. Drukker Scout Reservation was born and in 1972 after two years of planning, and a merging of the Alhtaha Council and Aheka Council to form the Passaic Valley Council, The first summer season opened. Since then, thousands of scouts have enjoyed Drukker Scout Reservation and have had a great camping experience. During the 90's several new buildings were added to the Reservation they are the Health Lodge, Handicraft Pavilion, Dining Hall, and Archery Pavilion. Other work was done to add a basketball court and a major overhaul of the dam was done. Now in 2009 the Northern New Jersey Council owns the Camp after the merging of the Bergen, Essex, Hudson Liberty, and Passaic Valley Councils. Drukker Scout Reservations history spans a long time and hopefully this story will enhance the knowledge of Scouts who wonder how it all came about.

*A Special thanks to Peter Osborne III, Historian and Director of the Minnisink Valley Historical Society (and former Camp Turrell Staff) for all his help and research to make

the legend of Drukker Scout Reservation possible.


Contact InformationNorthern New Jersey Council Office:

Stephen J. GrayScout ExecutiveNorthern New Jersey Council, BSA

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25 Ramapo Valley RoadP.O. Box 670Oakland, NJ 07436Phone: 201-677-1000Fax: 201-677-1020

Grey RollandDirector of Support Services – CampingNorthern New Jersey Council, BSA25 Ramapo Valley RoadP.O. Box 670Oakland, NJ 07436Phone: 201-677-1000Fax: 201-677-1020Website: www.nnjbsa.org

Camp Turrell: Scout’s Name

Unit Number (Troop ###)Camp Turrell144 Galligan RoadCuddebackville, NY 12729Phone: 845-754-7111Fax: 845-754-7165


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http://www.nnjbsa.org/

Directions to Camp TurrellFrom I-84 East/West to Cuddebackville Turn:

Exit Interstate 84 at Exit 1 in New York. Follow signs for U.S. Route 6 West. After the Dunkin’ Donuts (on the right), turn right at the second light onto North Maple St.

and go through tunnel. Follow N. Maple St. until it dead ends into a T-intersection at Route 209 in Huguenot. Turn

Right. Follow Route 209 North to a blinking light at the intersection of 209N and Route 211 (in

Cuddebackville). Shortly (about 50 yards) after the blinking light, turn left (uphill) onto Oakland Valley Road (Orange County Road 7).

From Route 17 to Cuddebackville Turn: From New Jersey, take Route 17 North into New York where it becomes Route 17 West. Exit at Rt. 17 West (Thruway Exit 16/Harriman). You will be by the Woodbury Commons.

Pay $1.00 toll. Take Rt. 17 West through Middletown to Exit 113 (Ellenville/Wurtsboro/Rte. 209). At the

top of the ramp, turn left onto Rte. 209 South. Go approximately 10 miles. You will go through Westbrookville. In Cuddebackville, before the blinking light, turn right (uphill) onto Oakland Valley Road

(Orange County Road 7).

From Route 23 to Cuddebackville Turn: Take Route 23 North to Port Jervis. As you enter Port Jervis, turn right at the third traffic light – N. Maple Avenue. (Go through

the tunnel.) Go approximately 4.5 miles to a stop sign. At the stop sign, turn right onto 209 North towards Huguenot. Go approximately 4 miles to a blinking light (Route 211). Shortly after the blinking light, turn left (uphill) onto Oakland Valley Road (Orange County

Road 7).

Cuddebackville Turn to Camp Turrell: Go approximately 4 miles on Oakland Valley Road. (You will pass Oakland Valley

Speedway and go over a river.) About ½ mile after the river, make a left onto Galligan Road. In approximately ½ mile, the

road becomes dirt. Go past the old railroad bed and look for the brown Drukker Scout Reservation/Camp

Turrell sign and stay right. It is a long 2.5 mile road into camp. Go past the Camp Kluge turnoff and up into the

parking lot. The camp SPEED LIMIT is 10mph. Thank you and Welcome to Camp Turrell!


Camp Turrell Map

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Camping at Turrell

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Camp Description:

Camp Turrell is located on the Dow Drukker Scout Reservation, which totals nearly 1,000 acres of mountain at the southern end of the Catskills near Forestburg, New York in Sullivan County.

All units camping at Turrell in are issued cots and housed in two-man canvas tents on wooden platforms. Each campsite is equipped with a latrine, wash basin, and running water. Most meals will be prepared by the food service staff in the dining hall unless the patrol cooking option is elected. On Thursday, in order to give scouts the opportunity to cook in-site, the dining hall will issue food to each troop for a patrol cooking experience. (Please read the program section for further details.)

The camp features many miles of hiking and mountain biking trails, a waterfall, a 90-acre lake, scouting program areas, a health lodge, dining hall/commissary, and an administration building (Peterson Lodge).

This summer, we are excited to announce many new features to the camp program. Relevant to camping, a PROVISIONAL troop will be in place for the fifth week of camp for scouts interested. We offer many opportunities for all ages and scout ranks in camp.

Camp Turrell is annually inspected by the Boy Scouts of America and always earns national accreditation. The camp is also inspected by the State of New York Department of Health and regularly meets or surpasses state standards for health and safety.

Tour Permits:

Troops from the Northern New Jersey Council DO NOT need a Tour Permit. All units outside of the Northern New Jersey Council MUST have a Tour Permit on file with the camp office prior to arrival in camp. Please be sure to file one if you are from another council.

2014 Camp Sessions:

Session 1 July 6 to July 12Session 2 July 13 to July 19Session 3 July 20 to July 26Session 4 July 27 to August 2Session 5 August 3 to August 9


2014 Camp FeesTroop Camping Fee = $425 per week; $375per week before March 15th

Leaders Fees: The first 2 leaders are free; each additional leader is $125.00 per session. Certified Webelos Crossover attend at early discount rate.

*Please specify week when paying*

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Individual programs have an associated fee. Please plan to pay the balance of any fees due at your camp fee settlement appointment on Monday. Further program descriptions can be found in the Program section of this guide.

PAYMENTS & REFUNDS There are NO DEPOSITS for any camp programs; fees are only accepted, in full, on a

first-come basis. Partial fees will be returned and the Scout will not be registered. There is a non-refundable cancellation fee of $100 for each registered program or session. After May 31st, refunds are issued for valid medical reasons only. All refund

requests must be made in writing no later than August 31, 2014. No refund requests will be considered after August 31, 2014.

FAQ’s ABOUT PAYMENTS AND REFUNDS:

1. If my scout does not attend camp can he get a “full” refund? The Northern New Jersey Council has a cancellation charge of $100.00 per session.

2. Is the cancellation fee ever waived? Cases are considered on an individual basis and must be requested in writing.

3. What about “no shows”? It is the unit leader’s responsibility to notify the camp of a change in plans. Units or youth that, without prior notification do not show up at camp forfeit any deposits or fees they may have paid.


CAMPERSHIPS A Scout should not miss out on the summer camp experience due to lack of funds. The

Northern New Jersey Council provides Campership funds to assist Scouts and their families with a portion of the camp fees. Campership applications are available through the Council Service Centers. For those applying for a campership please register as any Scout but indicate, “applying for a Campership” on the application. Please do not send any money with the Campership application. Keep in mind that due to limited funds,

Camperships do not cover 100% of the fees, so plan your budget accordingly. Campership requests only cover one week of camp. Campership applications must be

received by March 15, 2014.

FAQ’s ABOUT THE NNJC CAMPERSHIP PROGRAM:

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1. Where does campership money come from? Campership dollars are raised and donated specifically for the NNJC Campership Fund.

2. Who can apply for camperships? Any registered NNJC scout attending an NNJC camp.

3. How are camperships decided? A committee of volunteers meets and reviews each application and awards a campership amount.

4. Do all scouts receive the same amount? No, camperships are based on need and the number of applicants.

5. Why can scouts in the same unit receive different amounts? Information in campership applications differ as do the committee members reading the applications.

6. What happens to campership funds if a scout does not go to camp? Unused camperships are reallocated by the campership group to other scouts who may be in need.


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What to Bring to CampIndividual Equipment

1. Class 3 Medical Form (mandatory)2. Prescription Medications3. Sleeping Bag/Blankets4. Poncho/Rain Jacket5. Hiking Boots6. Extra Shoes/Water Shoes7. Scout Uniforms Class A and B8. Jacket/Sweater (wool or fleece)9. Swimsuit10. At least two towels11. Clothing (pack in plastic

bags)A. socksB. t-shirtsC. underwearD. extra shortsE. extra shirtsF. long pantsG. sleeping clothes

12. ToiletriesA. SoapB. Toothbrush & toothpasteC. Comb/brushD. Other personal items

13. Boy Scout Handbook14. Flashlight & extra batteries15. Scout pocketknife16. Eating utensils17. Re-usable water bottle18. Cup19. Pens, pencils, and notebook20. Merit badge pre-requisites

Optional, Recommended Equipment

1. Small Pillow2. Compass3. Backpack4. Insect Repellent and Netting5. Fishing tackle6. Bible/prayer book7. Camera 8. Individual first aid kit9. Ground cloth10. Wrist watch (with alarm)11. Spending money for Trading

Post (for slushies, snacks, sodas, camp t-shirts, and other memorabilia).

Troop Equipment

1. Medical forms for each scout2. American/Troop/Patrol Flags3. Troop Library4. Special event equipment5. Dish washing supplies – soap, tubs,

sponges, etc.6. Woods tools & sharpening stones7. Rope/twine/string8. Hammer & assorted camp tools9. Clock10. Game Equipment11. First Aid Kit12. Cooking Equipment13. Scouting Spirit


Check-In Procedures1. We will be starting check in at 10:30am and continue till 2:30pm. The site

guides will be ready at 12 noon and will be waiting for your troop at the Dining Hall.

2. Once your entire troop is at camp, the Scoutmasters should report to the CAMP DIRECTOR. From there Scoutmasters will meet your Site Guide. Your Site Guide will need a copy of your troop roster (including adults) in order to

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proceed with the check-in. ALL MONEY ISSUES WILL BE HANDLED ON SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE CHECK-IN (NEW FOR 2014)

3. Your Site Guide will lead your Senior Patrol Leader and troop to your campsite to drop off your gear.

4. Immediately after dropping off your gear to your site, all scouts and adult leaders should change into their swimsuit (or arrive to camp swimsuit ready). From your site, your Site Guide will bring you to the Pathfinder Pavilion for Medical Rechecks. Please make sure you have all of your troop’s medicals and medicines in the original bottles with you.

5. From the Pathfinder Pavilion, your Site Guide will escort you to the Waterfront Pavilion for your swim test and then the rest of the day is yours to unpack and get ready. Please note the last swim test will take place at 4:30.

6. Please meet at the Dining Hall for orientation at 5:15 in your Class A Uniform.

7. After orientation, we will be on the following schedule:

5:15pm Dinning Hall Orientation 5:45pm Evening Flag (Class A)6:00pm Dinner7:00pm Trading Post Opens7:00pm Scoutmaster Orientation (AD Building) (One Scoutmaster & One SPL)8:30pm Please Meet at the Sports Field for Opening Campfire9:00pm Opening Campfire TRADING POST OPENS DIRECTLY AFTER THE CAMPFIRE!!!!11:00pm Taps


Check-Out Procedures1. Please plan to be checked out of Camp Turrell NO LATER THAN 10:00AM on

Saturday.

2. The Quartermaster will open after breakfast to receive any equipment issued to your troop. Lost or broken equipment will be charged to your troop accordingly. The Quartermaster closes at 10:00AM, so please check-out early.

3. Your Site Guide will meet you in the dining hall at breakfast with a check-out list. Please return any unopened food that was issued to you during the

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week. For patrol cookers, please return CLEAN food baskets to the commissary at this time.

4. Clean-up your campsite. Please leave it better than you found it. Remember to dismantle any camp craft projects and clean out your stove and patrol box leaving them open and empty.

5. Once out of your site, make sure to visit the Health Lodge to pick-up troop medicals and to make sure all medications have been picked up.

6. Then, please proceed to the camp office to hand in camp appraisal form to receive your summer camp patches.

7. Following the appraisal, please check your site mailbox for any remaining items.

8. Sign-up for next year! Get your campsite early!

9. Thank you for camping at Camp Turrell. Have safe travels. We hope to camp with you again.


Camp PoliciesAt Camp Turrell, the Scout Oath and Law are guiding principles. We expect each leader

to provide the guidance within the troop to follow these principles, the policies of the Dow Drukker Reservation, the Northern New Jersey Council, and the Boy Scouts of

America. Please review all of Camp Turrell’s In-Camp Policies:

Flag Ceremonies: The flag is raised promptly at 7:45am every morning and retired at 5:45pm every day. All troops are expected to attend these ceremonies out of respect for our camp, country, and flag.

Uniforms: All campers are expected to be in uniform during the day. The Class A uniform is to be worn to all evening flag ceremonies, vespers, campfires, and dinner. The program uniform is the Class B uniform, to be worn at all other times. Please reference your Boy Scout Handbook for clarifications or ask the camp staff. Thursday will be Casual wear.

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Shoes: Closed toe shoes must be worn at all times except when showering, sleeping or swimming. Our camp has many rocks that are eager to cause foot injuries. Your cooperation will make your experience more pleasurable for sure.

Tents: NO FOOD OR DRINK is allowed inside any tent at any time. Food and drink attracts bears. Any food or drink found in any tent at any time will be immediately confiscated. Please be kind to your canvas tents. Each tent has outriggers to allow them to be stretched to their capacity. Please do not hang on the support beams or hang objects on them. NO FLAMES IN THE TENTS! The tents are flame retardant, but not flame proof. When raining, please close your tent flaps and loosen your outriggers as the canvas will tear as it dries. Please roll up your tent flaps when it is not raining. Treat them as your own – with respect and care. When checking out, please lower all flaps. Thank you.

Latrines & Washstands: Each campsite is equipped with a latrine and washstand. For your convenience, the Quartermaster has pine disinfectants to clean your latrine daily. Please do not wash dishes in the wash stand as it will clog with grease. Please do not dispense of anything but human waste into the latrines.

First Aid: All illnesses and injuries must be reported to the Health Officer for treatment. All medications must be checked-in at the Health Office for locked storage and distribution. Any scouts who have medications for asthma or anaphylaxis should always carry their inhalers or epinephrine, but are required to bring a second set to the Health Lodge for emergencies.

Vehicles: Vehicles are not permitted in campsites. All vehicles must be parked in the designated areas. NO PARKING is allowed on the sports field. During the week, all remaining vehicles must be parked in the upper lot by Peterson Lodge or in other properly designated locations.

Restricted Areas: The shooting ranges, waterfront, and climbing areas are off-limits except during program times when supervised by the staff. Campers and leaders also should not enter or pass through campsites other than their own without permission.

Dam: Absolutely NO scouts or leaders are allowed on the dam at any time! No fishing is permitted from the emergency spillway to the waterfront area.

Leaving Camp: All campers and leaders must stop by the Camp Office before leaving camp to sign-out and complete necessary documentation. Unit leaders must arrange two-deep coverage with the Camp Director before leaving.

Alcoholic Beverages & Illegal Drugs: Alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs are not permitted in camp. Possession or sue on camp property will be cause for removal.

Smoking: Smoking is prohibited except in areas explicitly designated by the Camp Director. The goal of this policy is to keep smoking away from scouts.

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Hazing: Initiations or hazing of any type is in violation of the Boy Scouts of America youth protection policy and is cause for removal of Scouts or leaders from camp.

Firearms: Camp Turrell provides all rifles, shotguns, bows, arrows, and ammunition at the shooting ranges and prohibits personal weapons.

Sheath Knives: Sheath knives are not to be carried by campers or leaders.

Fireworks: Possession or use of fireworks in camp is prohibited and is cause for removal.

Fuels: Flammable liquids are generally prohibited from use in camp. This includes fire-starting liquids and gels. Units planning to use liquid fuel for lanterns and stoves should contact the Camp Director in advance about storage and usage requirements.

Aerosol sprays: No aerosols of any kind are allowed in camp. However, insect repellents in pump or rub-on form are welcome amenities in camp. Please do not allow insect repellents to contact the canvas tents as it weakens the material.

Cutting Trees: No living or standing dead trees, including saplings, are to be cut without specific permission of the Camp Director or Ranger.

Camp Property: Individuals and units will be charged for repair or replacement of camp property damaged as a result of misuse or neglect.

Personal Items: All personal gear should be clearly labeled or marked with a waterproof marker (please include troop number). The camp is not responsible for lost or stolen items. We recommend that electronic equipment and other valuables be left at home.

Electronics: Electronic devices detract from the outdoors experience and are discouraged. Some of these devices include AM/FM radios, televisions, cell phones, etc. Please check with the Camp Director at check-in if you have questions.

Lost & Found: Any items lost and found may be delivered and/or recovered in the Camp Office.

Food: No food is allowed in tents, whether they are occupied or not, at anytime. Food should only be consumed at the picnic tables and stored in Bear Bags. Any food items found in tents will be confiscated.

Garbage: Please recycle all possible materials. Burn paper/cardboard products when possible. All other garbage should be delivered to the trash trailer behind the dining hall daily. If any trash is left in a campsite in the evening, it should be tied securely in a bear bag and hung in at least 12 feet off the ground and 6 feet from any tree trunk. It is much easier to deposit the garbage at the trailer daily

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than it is to pick-up after bears or raccoons that have ravaged your garbage. Garbage must be deposited by 7:00pm daily.

Telephone: The camp office telephone is available for emergency phone calls only. There is a public phone on the porch of the Peterson Lodge for all other matters. Scouts may only use the public phone with the written permission of their scoutmaster. Prepaid phone cards are a good idea. Cellular phone service is unreliable in camp and scouts are discouraged from using cell phones during their week in camp. Please be considerate to other campers when using the public phone by limiting calls to no more than 3 minutes.

Pets: Dogs and other personal pets should be left at home and are NOT allowed in camp.

Taps: Campers may not leave their campsite without a unit leader or on-duty staff member after 11pm. Taps represents a lights out, quiet policy. Please be respectful of other units and follow this policy closely.


Environmental StatementThe Boy Scouts of America care about the environments in which we camp. All scouts and leaders are charged to protect and nurture our environment, especially when at camp.

Help us keep our camp clean by:

1. Recycling: Reduce the use of all paper, Styrofoam, and plastic.Reuse containers and recycle aluminum.Do not bring glass containers to camp.

2. Low Impact Camping:Be gentle to your campsite. Dispose of trash properly.

3. Outdoor Code:Respect the wildlife of Camp Turrell and the Dow Drukker Scout Reservation.

Follow the Outdoor Code at all times:

As an American, I will do my best to:Be clean in my outdoor manners,

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Be careful with fire,Be considerate in the outdoors,And be conservation minded.


Safety Guidelines & ProceduresThe number one goal of the Northern New Jersey Council, Camp Turrell, and its staff is to provide all campers a safe and enjoyable experience this summer. As such, please carefully read all safety policies and procedures. It is the responsibility of every adult leader, scoutmaster, scout, camper, staff member, and visitor, to understand these policies and procedures, and be able to assist and aid the staff, if necessary.

Troop Leadership:

At least two registered adult leaders must be present in camp at all times to provide qualified supervision and guidance to the troop. One adult must be 21 years of age or older. A second adult must be 18 years of age or older. All adult leaders should be registered members of the Boy Scouts of America. Additional adult leadership should reflect an awareness of the troop’s size, skill level, and special needs. Please notify the Camp Office at registration time if adult leaders will be rotating during the week. A schedule is appreciated.

Staff Members:

The staff of Camp Turrell is here to provide you with a quality program and to make your stay as enjoyable as possible. They are trained to handle the emergencies of camp and many program areas have radios for communication with the camp office. Please use them and their training in emergencies.

Also, if any of your scouts are interested in joining us and making camp great, please see the Camp Director or Program Director for an application or an interview. Many scouts have enjoyed their camp experience so much that they have decided to work as a volunteer staff member for a week or two following their week in camp. Although we can only have staff members that are 16 years of age, we also offer a Junior Commissioner program for our interested 14-15 year olds. Many scouts have had enriching experiences pursuing advancement and merit badge opportunities while working in

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camp as a Junior Commissioner. Encourage your scouts to join us this summer or apply next summer!

Youth Protection:

The safety and well-being of our scouts is our number one responsibility this summer. All are responsible to ensure the physical and emotional safety of the Scouts in our care. Be a source of strength and courage, and help your scouts in camp this summer.

All Scoutmasters should review Youth Protection Guidelines with all adults who will be serving as leaders in camp this summer. In addition, a youth protection seminar will be given on Monday morning for any adults requiring this training.

If a scout reports being abused or if you suspect abuse, immediately notify the Camp Director. Do not discuss the matter with other Scouts or Leaders.

The following guidelines are used to ensure the safety of our youth campers. All adult leaders and staff are expected to follow these guidelines:

1. Two deep leadership is required at all times. (At least one leader 21 years of age or older, and a second of at least 18 years of age or older.) Should a situation arise where a troop will be without the mandatory two leaders, the camp office should be immediately notified of this situation and a course of action will quickly be determined by the Camp Director.

2. No one-on-one contact. All conferences or meetings with youth should be done in plain sight.

3. Respect privacy. Separate Shower facilities are provided for youth (under 18) and adults (18 and older). Adults may intrude as required for health and safety. Individual showers are provided.

4. Buddy system. All campers must move about camp with a buddy (or buddies) at all times; e.g. campers are not to hike alone on or around camp property. This is a BSA National Camp standard and a New York State Law. Youth and adult leaders should make their scouts understand this and make provision for helping their scouts attend necessary programs and merit badge classes on-time. Arriving to a program/class late is better than arriving without a buddy.

5. Separate accommodations. Youth may not share a tent with an adult unless the adult is a parent. Male and female leaders may not share a tent unless they are married.

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6. Proper preparation for high-adventure activities. Activities with elements of risk should only be undertaken with proper equipment, clothing, supervision, and safety measures. Scouts will be given opportunities to participate in high adventure activities as long as they satisfy BSA requirements & standards with the approval of the High Adventure Director.

7. No secret organizations are recognized by the BSA. All aspects of the Scouting programs are open to observation by parents and leaders.

8. Appropriate attire. Proper clothing is always required; e.g. appropriate swimwear must be worn in and around the aquatics area.

9. Constructive discipline. Corporal punishment is never permitted. Discipline should be constructive and reflect the values of Scouting.

10. Hazing is prohibited. Physical hazing and initiations are prohibited and may not be included as part of any activity in camp.

11. Junior leader training and supervision. Adult leaders must supervise, guide, and monitor the leadership techniques used by junior leaders to ensure that Boy Scouts of America policies are followed.

12. Intrusion of unauthorized persons policy. Please review our policy on this matter in the emergency procedures section.

13. Verification of no-shows. If a scout listed on a troop’s roster fails to show up at camp, the adult leadership of that troop MUST verify the reason for that scout’s absence. Troop leaders must also report any scouts attending who did not originally appear on the roster. Camp personnel are required to contact the parents of a no-show scout. A verification report will be filed in the camp office.

14. Release of minors. For legal parents and guardians: If a parent/legal guardian needs to pick up their child during his week at camp, they and the Scout must go in person to the camp office to sign-out using the camp Sign-In/Sign-Out book. The camp administration has the right to ask for documentation to prove the identity of the person picking up the minor.

For persons other than the legal parent or guardian:

1) If a person other than the legal parent or guardian arrives to pick-up a camper, verification and identification of this individual is required.

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2) For any minor to leave camp with a person other than a parent or legal guardian, an authorization form must be completed in advance and be on file in the camp office. The form, “Authorization to Release Minors to Persons other than the Legal Parent/Guardian”, must be completed by the parent and unit leader, and filed with the Camp Director upon arrival. Only persons listed on this form may take a minor out of camp.

3) The authorized adult and scout must come to the camp office together in person. There the adult and scout will sign out in the Sign-In/Sign-Out book and the camp office staff will verify that the form is on file and check the proof of identification of the adult.

4) The camp administration has the right to ask for documentation to prove the identity of the person picking up the minor. The camp administration reserves the right to deny the adult a sign-out until the Camp Director verifies the documentation.

5) All forms will be kept on file in the camp office. A separate form must be completed every time a scout leaves camp.

6) All adult leaders will be instructed about this policy upon arrival.


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Emergency Procedures(National Camp Standard M-6)

When the Camp Siren sounds:

1. All campers (Scoutmasters, Scouts, and adults) and staff report to the Sports Field next to the Dining Hall.

2. Adult Leaders and Area Directors check your attendance. Are any scouts/scoutmasters missing? If so, we need full name, troop number, and all information possible on last whereabouts.

3. Report attendance to the staff member in charge.4. Wait for directions.5. If ALL CLEAR, two short siren blasts will sound.

Lost Bather: (Series of 3 Blasts)1. Siren will sound at Aquatics Director’s direction.2. All able staff is immediately dispatched to the waterfront.3. All troops will assemble on the Sports Field next to Dining Hall and follow

procedures as outlined when the camp siren sounds.

Lost Camper: (Series of 2 Blasts)1. Immediately report any missing person to the camp office. DO NOT DELAY!2. All troops will assemble on the Sports Field next to Dining Hall and follow

procedures as outlined when the camp siren sounds. Keep them together.3. Siren will sound at Camp or Program Director’s direction.4. Staff will begin searching for the lost person immediately. Extreme Sports Staff

patrol campsites with bikes.5. The Cuddebackville Fire Department and the New York Environmental

Department of Conservation will be contacted.6. If necessary, as directed by the Camp Director, the scoutmaster will notify the

Scout’s parents.

Fires: (Series of 1 Blast)1. Report fire to office.2. Camp Director will notify appropriate fire agencies.3. NEVER enter burning buildings. If a building catches fire, vacate all personnel.4. Do not go back for anything! Do not attempt to fight the fire!

Forest Fires:1. Report fire to camp office.2. Camp siren will sound. Follow above siren procedures.

Severe Storms (all storms including lightning, hail, and high winds):

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1. If a storm is apparent, scouts and scoutmasters should return to and remain in their assigned campsites. Take shelter in tents and stay low.

2. If it is not possible to reach your campsite in time, take shelter in the nearest camp building as directed by staff.

3. If hiking on the property, travel to lowest area available and stay low. 4. Stay off of mountain tops and away from the tallest trees.5. Do not attempt to leave the campsites to take shelter in camp buildings unless

directed to do so by staff members.

Accidents/Health Emergencies:1. Send for Help. If possible, report to the Health Lodge immediately.

Scoutmasters/Staff/Scouts should immediately notify the Health Officer. If Health Officer is not present, report to camp office.

2. Administer First Aid until help arrives.3. Once help arrives, necessary, appropriate medical aid will be administered.4. Where appropriate, scoutmasters will notify the Scout’s parents.

Floods:1. In the case of a flash flood, try to reach high ground immediately. 2. If possible, notify the camp office and wait for instructions.3. If necessary, evacuate to Dining Hall or Peterson Lodge (Administration

Building).

Tornadoes:1. In the event of a tornado, scoutmasters will be provided a shelter assignment

by staff members. Shelters include the Health Lodge, Peterson Lodge (Administration Building), and the Dining Hall.

2. All windows and doors will be opened and everyone will take shelter low on the floors.

3. All camp staff and campers will await the all clear by the camp office as directed by the Camp Director.

Fatalities:1. The Camp Director will notify the proper authorities.2. The Camp Director will notify the police who will investigate the fatality.3. The Camp Director will notify the Scout Executive and he will notify the Scout’s

parents immediately.4. The Camp Director will get all the facts, including statements of witnesses.5. Release of any information must be cleared through the Camp Director, who is

the official spokesperson for the camp. Where possible, this will be done in collaboration with the Scout Executive.

6. A report will be filed with the council office by the Camp Director.

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1. If inside a building, duck under a strong table or desk.2. Cover your head and face. Be prepared to move with the table or desk.3. Do not run outside during the shaking.4. If outside, stay away from buildings, power lines, and tall trees. Move to the

nearest open area.

Cliffs, Gorges, and Caves:1. Stay on trails unless instructed by staff to do otherwise.2. Stay out of all posted climbing areas.3. Camp Turrell was formerly a quarry and mining site. There are cliff faces and

caves on camp property, which can be hazardous. DO NOT ENTER CAVES OR APPROACH CLIFF FACES.

4. Do not approach cliff faces from above or below. Loose rocks can give way at the top of these cliffs resulting in falls or dangerous rock fall.

5. Any incident or violation of this policy must be reported immediately. This violation is grounds for immediate dismissal from camp.

Limitations on Physical Activity:1. If the conditions of smog or high temperatures and humidity exist, scoutmasters

will be directed to provide additional opportunities for rest and water to troops.2. If necessary, the daily program schedule will be modified to keep campers safe

and comfortable. Reduced exposure to the elements is critical.

Camp Kitchen:1. No camper, adult leader or scout, is permitted in the kitchen without the

permission and direction of the Cook.

Hazardous Gases and Liquids:

1. Any unusual smells or liquids should be immediately reported to the camp office.

2. Remove yourself from any area where these exist. DO NO TOUCH.3. The Ranger will immediately investigate and notify the Camp Director of any

hazardous conditions.4. If necessary, the Cuddebackville Fire Department will be notified.5. All hazardous materials are appropriately stored and contained as per BSA

National Camp Standard. All biohazardous wastes shall be stored and disposed of in accordance with BSA National Camp Standard M-22.

Poisonous Snakes (Copperheads & Timber Rattlesnakes):1. Do not approach either of these snakes. Observe from a distance.2. In the case of a bite, remain calm and keep the victim calm.3. Remove the victim to the closest, safe location.4. Send for help (Health Lodge or Camp Office). The Camp Director will notify

emergency services of a snake bite and request an emergency response.5. Have the victim sit down with the bite area below the heart.6. Keep the victim calm and relaxed and administer first aid as appropriate.7. First aid and medical care will be provided as soon as help arrives.

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8. Following treatment, the Camp Director will file a report with the council office and proper authorities.

Evacuation Plan:1. All campers will immediately report to the Sports Field. If the Sports Field is

unsafe, all campers will report to the upper parking area next to the Peterson Lodge (Administration Building).

2. Once assembled a head count will be taken. Once all are accounted for, the evacuation will commence under the direction of the Camp Director. In the absence of the Camp Director, the Ranger will direct the evacuation.

3. The Evacuation routes include:A. Route A - Hike down the Camp Road toward Galligan Road and collect at

the Ranger’s House in the Maintenance Yard.B. Route B – Hike the camp road past the Dining Hall toward sites N, O, and

P. Follow this road off the Camp Property and onto the Hartwoood Club Property. Staff will guide you to safety.

C. Route C – Hike the camp road to the aquatics area. From the aquatics area hike the Red Trail below the dam to the Yellow Trail. Hike the Yellow Trail to the Camp Kluge. Await instructions there.

4. Once you have reached the evacuation destination, staff will give you directions on what to do next. Please be calm and patient.

Intrusion Policy:1. According to BSA National Camp Standard, a policy and procedures must be in

place to address possible intrusion of unauthorized persons onto the camp property.

2. In the event of a possible intrusion, notify the camp office immediately.3. In order to identify campers, leaders, and visitors, everyone except for staff will

be issued wristbands for identification. Three different colors will be used to differentiate between campers, leaders, and visitors.

4. All leaders should check their campsites throughout the day. It is recommended before and after every meal, or at a minimum of six times per day.

Procedures:1) All visitors must report to the camp office to sign-in and out.2) All visitors will wear an identification wrist band.3) If an unauthorized person is suspected, report that person to the nearest

program area.4) The area director will immediately contact the camp office. While waiting,

the area director will begin to take notes observing the possible intruder and relay a description of the individual.

5) The camp office will immediately notify the Camp Director who will proceed to the area with the camp ranger and another adult.

6) In the case of an emergency situation, the local state police and sheriff will be contacted immediately. If the person in question flees, local authorities will be notified of the intrusion regardless.

7) Camp program will continue unless a camp-wide emergency is warranted. In this case the camp siren will sound and procedures for siren sounding should be followed.

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8) An assessment will be made as to the severity of the problem in collaboration with the Scout Executive and local authorities.

9) All situations of possible intrusion will warrant a “Report of Intrusion” by the Camp Director and be filed in the camp office.

10) All adult leaders should train their scouts to follow the above procedures and report strangers/intruders to the nearest staff member/adult.

11) The Buddy System is to be followed at all times.


Bear Policy"When a pine needle falls in the forest, the eagle sees it; the deer hears it, and the bear

smells it."Did You Know? Black bears are the second largest mammal in New York State. (The moose is the largest).

They are excellent climbers and can run at speeds of 25 mph.

Although bears remain dormant for up to five months in the winter, they are not considered "true hibernators" since they can wake up if disturbed.

Black bears are typically solitary animals traveling alone except when females have cubs. Typically, a female will have two to three cubs born in the winter while the female is in the den. Cubs stay with the adult female for over a year and then disperse as yearlings on their own.

Rules to Prevent Problems with Bears: (According to NYDEC) Do not leave coolers or food out at any time. Store them securely in either the trunk of your car or in

the passenger area of your truck. Keep windows shut and food and coolers out of sight. Where food lockers are provided, food and coolers must be stored and locked inside.

Clean up after all meals immediately. Keep grills, pots, pans, cooking utensils, and wash basins clean when not in use. Do not wash dishes under the water faucets.

Do not put grease, garbage, plastic diapers, cans, bottles or other refuse into the fireplace.

Keep your campsite as clean as possible. Take all garbage to the disposal area each day by 7:00 pm

Do not keep food or coolers in your tent. Do not wear clothing to bed that was worn while preparing or eating meals.

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1. Do not approach black bears. Observe from a distance.2. Make sure that the bear knows you are there by talking loudly with your

buddies/fellow campers. DO NOT RUN.3. Slowly move away, but face the bear. Do not turn your back.4. If possible, notify the camp office of a bear sighting.5. If charged, stand your ground. The bear will try to scare you. 6. If attacked, curl up in a ball and protect your head and neck with your hands. 7. Send for help and administer first aid as needed.8. All black bear incidents will be reported to the council office, local authorities,

and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC).Return to Table of Contents

DINING SERVICESThere are two options for dining at Camp Turrell. Troops may elect to either eat all of their meals in the Dining Hall or cook in-site as a patrol. Please select one of these methods on your camp program pre-registration form. Also, please identify any special dietary needs your scouts may have.

Dining Hall:

The Dining Hall is one of our favorite areas; a place that makes a rainy day a minor occurrence. At Camp Turrell, our aim is provide you with a quality dining experience from the food to the program. We have given a lot of thought to what makes a menu outstanding and will work hard in the kitchen to serve you. Camp Turrell 2014 Summer Camp is pleased to present Jerome Bland as our cook. He is excited to use Camp Turrell’s top of the line kitchen (installed spring 2009) to bring only the best meals to you and your troop!

Please remember each troop needs to send at least one waiter per table 15 minutes prior to every meal for set-up. Don’t be late or miss set-up! The scout who is serving as a waiter for the specific meal should plan on staying ten minutes after the meal to clean and sweep up. Please note… scouts at each table should help stack dishes and scrape garbage for the waiter. If we notice that this is not being followed we will require one adult leader to come before and after to monitor set-up and proper clean-up. Also, should you be interested in helping out in the kitchen, please speak with our head cook on Sundays when you come into camp. Our goal is to provide them with food that will leave them wondering if they are in a camp or a resort.

In-Site Cooking:

On Thursdays, all troops will be cooking lunch and dinner in their campsites. Please see the meal description and items provided for this day below in the 2014 Camp Turrell Menu.

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Meal Schedule: Pick-up Patrol Cooking:

Breakfast 8:00-8:30am 7:00am-7:15am Lunch 12:30-1:00pm 11:30-11:45pmDinner 6:00-6:45pm 5:00pm-5:15pm

Please notify the Camp Commissioner or the Cook on Sunday of any scouts that will be celebrating their birthday while at camp.


Camp Turrell 2014 Menu**Subject to Change**

Breakfast Lunch Dinner

SUN

Pork LoinMashed Potatoes

BroccoliSalad

Bug JuiceChocolate Cake

MON

Scrambled EggsBacon

Hash BrownsCereal Fruit

Milk, OJ, Apple Juice

TacosBug Juice

Fresh Cookies

Penne and MeatballsChoice of Sauce

Garlic BreadSalad

Bug JuiceItalian Ice

TUESSausage Gravy and

Biscuits Oatmeal, Granola

FruitMilk, OJ, Apple Juice

Sausage, Peppers, OnionsCurly fries

SaladBug Juice

Fruit Parfait

BBQ chickenCorn on the cob

Baked Sweet PotatoesSalad

Bug JuiceCake

WED

Belgian WafflesSausage Patties

EggsCerealFruit

Milk, OJ, Apple Juice

PizzaChicken Caesar

Bug juiceBrownies

TurkeyStuffing

Mashed Potatoes, Carrots, Onions

Cranberry SauceBug Juice

Pie

THURSFrench Toast

BaconFruit

CerealMilk, OJ, Apple Juice

IN-SITE COOKINGHoagie Rolls& Cold Cuts

FruitBug Juice

Plates & Utensils

IN- SITE COOKINGSteak

Baked PotatoesGreen Beans Peppers Onions

Potatoes & Salad & JuiceBrownie Oranges

FRI PancakesBlueberries, Bananas,

Chocolate ChipsSausageCerealFruit

Cheeseburger MacaroniDinner Rolls

SaladBug Juice

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Rib NightMix Vegetables

Steak Fries & Corn BreadSalad

Bug JuiceApple Pie w/Ice Cream

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Milk, OJ, Apple JuiceSAT Continental

For In-Site Cooking, the theme is tin-foil cooking (we supply the foil and a few favorite recipies). If you would like, feel free to cook using another method, BUT please come prepared! You will be supplied with plates, cups, plastic utensils and a cutting knife. Please feel free to bring whatever

you need for your special recipe. Return to Table of Contents

The Trading Post

Stop by to purchase Camp Supplies, Merit Badge Supplies, Camp T-Shirts, Insect Spray, Slushies, Sodas, Souvenirs, Snacks, and MUCH MORE!

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Time Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

8:30-9:15 OPEN 8:30-9:15

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9:15-11:00 CLOSED11:00-12:30

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12:15-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:30

OPEN 12:00-5:15

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2:30-3:30 CLOSED

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5:00-6:45 CLOSED

6:45-10:00 OPEN 6:45-10:00

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8:00-9:00OPEN After

Campfire

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Campfire


2014 Merit Badges (49), Programs (8)MB = Merit Badge (NEW!!) -2014

Aquatics MB SwimmingMB LifesavingMB CanoeingMB Small Boat SailingMB RowingMB Kayaking (NEW!!)Polar Bear SwimBSA Stand-Up Paddle Board (NEW!!)BSA SnorkelingBSA Mile SwimBSA & Red Cross Lifeguard (NEW!!)Outdoor Skills MB PioneeringMB CampingMB CookingMB Wilderness SurvivalMB Orienteering (NEW!!)Totin’ ChipFirem'n ChitShooting SportsMB Rifle Shooting (>12 yrs old)MB Shotgun Shooting (> 14 yrs old)MB ArcheryTomahawk Throwing (NEW!!)Dynamic Duo ShootRobin Hood ShootHealth LodgeMB First AidMB E-PrepMB Traffic SafetyMB Safety (NEW!!)MB Fire Safety (NEW!!)(EMT seminar style older scouts only)MB Public Health(NEW!!)MB Medicine (NEW!!)Extreme SportsMB ClimbingMB Athletics/MB SportsMB Personal FitnessMountain Biking

Handicraft

MB BasketryMB LeatherworkMB SculptureMB ArtMB WoodcarvingMB Indian LoreMB Painting (NEW!!)NatureMB FishingMB Environmental ScienceMB Mammal StudyMB WeatherMB Nature (See Nature Director at Camp)MB Sustainability (NEW!!)MB Energy (NEW!!)MB Soil & Water ConservationMB AstronomyMB Fish & Wildlife ManagementWorld Conservation Award

Technology CenterMB ComputersMB PhotographyMB ChessMB Geo-CachingMB Scouting Heritage (NEW!!)MB Space Exploration (NEW!!)

Check out Pathfinder Page for New & Improved Pathfinder Program


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Pre-Registration ProceduresWe believe that every scout should have the opportunity to pursue any merit badge offered in our camp regardless of demand. We offer several merit badges at multiple times to accommodate our scouts and their merit badge pursuits. We will also use a pre-registration program for merit badges so that we may accommodate our scouts and plan accordingly.

Adult Leaders should copy and use the Program Planning Form for helping scouts plan their merit badge and program schedule this year. (The program schedule is at the end of this guide.) When planning with your scouts, please keep in mind some general guidelines:

1) Please review the requirements for all of our merit badges, as per the BSA 2012 Merit Badge Requirements book. Be sure to carefully review your scouts' schedules to avoid scheduling conflicts. Scouts should have equal opportunities to pursue merit badges as well as engage in open programs and other activities in camp.

2) Please help scouts choose merit badges that are age appropriate; e.g. merit badges like Environmental Science and Lifesaving should be pursued by older scouts with a minimum of second class rank (first class being more desirable).

3) Please encourage your scouts to acquire and read their merit badge pamphlets prior to camp. We would like to help your scouts earn the merit badges they have chosen to pursue, so please Be Prepared.

4) Some merit badges require supplies from the Trading Post, please be sure to review each scout's merit badges and let parents know approximately how much money will be needed for the program. (We suggest each scout brings around $50 to camp for merit badge supplies, snacks in the trading post, and souvenirs.)

5) For scouts electing merit badge programs that are by appointment only, please schedule them for 1.5 merit badge slots per merit badge; e.g. two merit badges by appointment requires three available slots during the day. There are no evening slots for by appointment merit badges.

Please send the completed forms to the Northern New Jersey Council office no later than May 1st 2014. (Please make and send as many photocopies of the completed forms as you like.) This will give us an opportunity to do our best planning for your scouts.Please note that some of our merit badges will result in partials only. Examples of these merit badges that will result in partials include Shotgun, Sustainability, and Orienteering. Our goal here is provide scouts solid foundations in these merit badges so that they may complete them more easily at home. Should a scout be in camp two weeks, we will work with motivated scouts to complete these badges.

All Merit Badge Sign-Ups will be done on-line. Please visit www.nnjbsa-turrell.org. Registration will begin on May 1st.


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Outdoor Skills Schedule & Pre-RequisitesTIME OUTDOOR SKILLS

8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST9:00-10:00 Camping 1

Pioneering10:00-11:00 Camping 211:00-12:00 Wilderness Survival

Cooking12:00-2:00 12:00-2:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA @ 1:002:00-3:00 Wilderness Survival 3:00-4:00 Orienteering

Pioneering4:00-5:00 Camping 35:15-7:00 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00

7:00-8:30 Tuesday Night Outpost for Wilderness Survival (Meet at Dining Hall @ 5:15)


Outdoor Skills Pre-RequisitesPioneering:

2. Do the following:a. Successfully complete Tenderfoot requirements 4a and 4b and First Class requirements 7a, 7b, and

7c. (These are the rope-related requirements.)b. Tie the following: square knot, bowline, sheepshank, sheet bend, and roundturn with two half hitches.c. Demonstrate the following: tripod and round lashings.

7. Build a scale model of a signal tower or a monkey bridge. Correctly anchor the model using either the 1-1-1 anchoring system or the log and stake anchoring method. Describe the design of your project and explain how the anchoring system works.

Camping:4. Do the following:

a. Make a duty roster showing how your patrol is organized for an actual overnight campout. List assignments for each member.

b. Help a Scout patrol or a Webelos Scout unit in your area prepare for an actual campout, including creating the duty roster, menu planning, equipment needs, general planning, and setting up camp.

8. d. Cook at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner for your patrol from the meals you have

planned for requirement 8c. At least one of those meals must be a trail meal requiring the use of a lightweight stove.

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9. Show experience in camping by doing the following:a. Camp a total of at least 20 days and 20 nights. Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you have

pitched. The 20 days and 20 nights must be at a designated Scouting activity or event. You may use a week of long-term camp toward this requirement. If the camp provides a tent that has already been pitched, you need not pitch your own tent.

b. On any of these camping experiences, you must do TWO of the following, only with proper preparation and under qualified supervision:

1. Hike up a mountain, gaining at least 1,000 vertical feet.2. Backpack, snowshoe, or cross-country ski for at least 4 miles.3. Take a bike trip of at least 15 miles or at least four hours.4. Take a nonmotorized trip on the water of at least four hours or 5 miles.5. Plan and carry out an overnight snow camping experience.6. Rappel down a rappel route of 30 feet or more.

c. Perform a conservation project approved by the landowner or land managing agency.

Wilderness Survival:5. Put together a personal survival kit and explain how each item in it could be useful

Cooking:3.

c. Using the menu planned for requirement 3, make a food list showing cost and amount needed to feed three or more boys.

4. Using the menu planned for requirement 3, do the following and discuss the process with your merit badge counselor: a. Prepare and serve for yourself and two others, the two dinners, one lunch, and one breakfast. Time

your cooking so that each course will be ready to serve at the proper time.*b. For meals prepared in requirement 4a for which a fire is needed, use a lightweight stove or build a

low-impact fire. Include support for your cooking utensils from rocks, logs, or like material. The same fireplace may be used for more than one meal. Use a backpacking stove to cook at least one meal. (Where local regulations do not allow you to do this, the counselor may change the requirement to meet the law.)

c. For each meal prepared in requirement 4a, use safe food-handling practices. Dispose of garbage, cans, foil, paper, and other rubbish by packing them out and depositing them in a proper container. After each meal, clean up the site thoroughly.

5. b. Using the menu planned for requirement 5, make a food list showing cost and amount needed to feed

three or more boys.6. Using the menu planned for requirement 5, do the following:

a. Prepare and serve for yourself and two others, the trail breakfast and dinner. Time your cooking so that each course will be ready to serve at the proper time.

b. Use an approved trail stove (with proper supervision) or charcoal to prepare your meals.c. For each meal prepared in requirement 6a, use safe food-handling practices. Dispose of garbage,

cans, foil, paper, and other rubbish by packing them out and depositing them in a proper container. After each meal, clean up the site thoroughly.

8. Find out about three career opportunities in cooking. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.

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Aquatics ScheduleTIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

6:45-7:15

Polar Bear (Mile Swim)

SUP


SUP


SUP

7:45-8:45 FLAG @ 7:45 BREAKFAST @ 8:00

9:00-10:00

Lifesaving & Rowing

Lifesaving & Rowing

Lifesaving & Rowing

Lifesaving & Rowing

Lifesaving & Rowing

10:00-12:00

Swimming & Canoeing

Swimming & Canoeing

Swimming & Canoeing

Swimming & Canoeing

Swimming & Canoeing

12:30-2:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA 1:00-2:00

2:00-4:00

LifeguardingKayaking &

Sailing Swimming


Sailing Swimming


Sailing Swimming


Sailing Swimming 2:00 Iron Man 2:30 - 5:00

Water Carnival4:00-5:00

Open Swim & Open Boating (BSA Mile

Swim)

Open Swim & Open Boating (BSA Mile Swim) (BSA Snorkeling)



5:45-6:45 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00

7:15-8:15

Aquatic Merit Badge Requirements (CPR/Safety

Afloat/ Safe Swim Defense)

Open Swim & Boating

(BSA Mile Swim)

Canoe Outpost (Departs Waterfront

at 7pm)

Open Swim & Boating

(BSA Mile Swim)

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Aquatics Pre-RequisitesPre-Requisites:

Swimming:

2. Do the following: a. Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person. Explain how to recognize

such conditions b. Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training device approved by your

counselor.

3. Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete Second Class rank requirements 7a-7c and First Class rank requirements 9a-9c. Second Class rank requirements:

7.a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. 7.b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first into water over your head in depth, level off and

swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.

7.c. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.

First Class rank requirements: 9.a. Tell what precautions should be taken for a safe trip afloat. 9.b. Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. Jump

feet first into water over your head in depth, swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be swum continuously and include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by floating.

9.c. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water).

* Long Pants (Jeans are not good) and a Long Sleeved Button Down Shirt are needed for Requirement #4. *

Lifesaving:(This badge should be taken by an older scout who has previously completed the Swimming

Merit Badge)

1. a. Complete all Swimming Pre-Requisites. (listed above)b. Swim continuously for 400 yards using each of the following strokes in a strong manner for at

least 50 continuous yards: front crawl, sidestroke, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke.

BSA and/or Red Cross Lifeguard:(This badge should be taken by an older scout who has previously completed the Lifesaving Merit

Badge)

1. Submit proof of age. You must be at least 15 years old to participate.

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2. Submit written evidence of fitness for swimming activities(signed health history).3. Swim continuously for 550 yards, including at least 100 yards each of the following strokes in good

form: front crawl, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke.4. Immediately following the above swim, tread water for two minutes.5. Starting in the water, swim 20 yards using a front crawl or breaststroke, surface dive 7 to 10 feet,

retrieve a 10-pound object, surface, swim with the object 20 yards back to the starting point, and exit the water, all within 1 minute, 40 seconds.

6. Show evidence of current training in American Red Cross First Aid (valid for three years) and American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer (valid for one year) or equivalent (includes any training for a camp health officer recognized by BSA national camp standards).

**There is a Fee associated with Red Cross Lifeguard and you MUST Register with the Camp Director by May 1st**

Rowing, Canoeing, Kayaking & Small Boat Sailing:(It is recommended that older scouts take Small Boat Sailing after they have completed at least one

boating MB.)

All Boating Merit Badges require the following:a. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. b. Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person. Explain how such

conditions are recognized. c. Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training device approved by your

counselor.d. Review and discuss Safety Afloat and demonstrate the proper fit and use PFDs.

Canoeing Outpost (Wednesday Night):The Canoeing Outpost will give scouts a chance to take advantage of the wilderness that Camp Turrell has to offer, but why stop at the wilderness. This outpost will go that extra step. Scouts will meet @ 7:00pm in front of the Waterfront Pavilion. They will skillfully pack their canoes, canoe to the island and around Beaver Dam Pond. After unpacking they will enjoy a campfire treat and the skies that Camp Turrell has to offer by sleeping under the stars.

Polar Bear Swim (Tuesday-Thursday) 6:45AM:For those who just cannot get enough time in the aquatics area, join the polar bears of the aquatics staff for a chilly morning dip! The area opens at 6:45am for one half hour. Those interested should arrange to arrive with a buddy. Attend all three and get a personalized certificate.

Snorkeling, BSA: (Look at Schedule for Times)Scouts more interested in the offerings at our waterfront have the opportunity to explore the depths in our snorkeling program. Snorkeling scouts will venture out into the larger lake for some exploration later in the week, time permitting.

Stand Up Paddle Boarding (SUP), BSA: (Look at Schedule for Times)Scouts more interested in exploring Beaver Dam Pond will have the opportunity to do so while learning all SUP components.

Mile Swim, BSA: (Look at Schedule for Times)Scouts interested in testing their limits in the water are encouraged to try the mile swim. In meeting the requirements, scouts must spend one hour each day at the waterfront working with our aquatics staff to prepare for the experience. On Friday, after spending four one-hour sessions preparing, scouts will have the opportunity to complete a one-mile swim. Please note: each scout planning on pursuing this award must also have a buddy scout and spotter to row a chase boat during the trial. This is a challenging pursuit and scouts must attend all Mile Swim training days in order to take the final test.


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Nature ScheduleTIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

7:45-8:45 FLAG @ 7:45 BREAKFAST @ 8:00

9:00-10:00 Fishing Envi-Science

Fishing Envi-Science




10:00-11:00

Sustainability Nature





11:00-12:00

Sustainability Envi-Science





2:00-3:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA 1:00-2:00

2:00-3:00 Fish & Wildlife Fishing

Fish & Wildlife Fishing



2:00 Iron Man 2:30 - 5:00

Water Carnival

3:00-4:00Mammal

StudyWeather

Mammal Study

Weather

Mammal Study

Weather

Mammal Study

Weather

4:00-5:00 Energy Soil & Water

Energy Soil & Water

Energy Soil & Water

Energy Soil & Water

5:45-6:45 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00

7:00-8:30Astronomy Merit Badge

(See Nature Director)

Astronomy Late Night

Viewing (See Nature Director)

Astronomy MBMeet at White Tarp 7:30pm


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Nature Pre-Requisites

Nature:1. a. Birds

1. In the field, identify eight species of birds. 2. Make and set out a birdhouse OR a feeding station OR a birdbath. List what birds used it during a period of one month.

1. d. Insects and Spiders 1. Collect, mount, and label 10 species of insects or spiders. 2. Hatch an insect from the pupa or cocoon; OR hatch adults from nymphs; OR keep larvae until they form pupae or cocoons; OR keep a colony of ants or bees through one season.

1. f. Mollusks and Crustateans 1. Identify five species of mollusks and crustaceans. 2. Collect, mount, and label six shells.

Weather:8. Do ONE of the following:

a. Make one of the following instruments: wind vane, anemometer, rain gauge, hygrometer. Keep a daily weather log for one week using information from this instrument as well as from other sources such as local radio and television stations, NOAA Weather Radio, and Internet sources (with your parent's permission). Record the following information at the same time every day: wind direction and speed, temperature, precipitation, and types of clouds. Be sure to make a note of any morning dew or frost. In the log, also list the weather forecasts from radio or television at the same time each day and show how the weather really turned out. b. Visit a National Weather Service office or talk with a local radio or television weathercaster, private meteorologist, local agricultural extension service officer, or university meteorology instructor. Find out what type of weather is most dangerous or damaging to your community. Determine how severe weather and flood warnings reach the homes in your community.

10. Find out about a weather-related career opportunity that interests you. Discuss with and explain to your counselor what training and education are required for such a position, and the responsibilities required of such a position.

Soil & Water Conservation:7. Do TWO of the following:

a. Make a trip to two of the following places. Write a report of more than 500 words about the soil and water and energy conservation practices you saw.

1. An agricultural experiment. 2. A managed forest or a woodlot, range, or pasture.

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3. A wildlife refuge or a fish or game management area. 4. A conservation-managed farm or ranch. 5. A managed watershed. 6. A waste-treatment plant. 7. A public drinking water treatment plant. 8. An industry water-use installation. 9. A desalinization plant.

b. Plant 100 trees, bushes and/or vines for a good purpose. c. Seed an area of at least one-fifth acre for some worthwhile conservation purposes, using suitable grasses or legumes alone or in a mixture. d. Study a soil survey report. Describe the things in it. Using tracing paper and pen, trace over any of the soil maps, and outline an area with three or more different kinds of soil. List each kind of soil by full name and map symbol. e. Make a list of places in your neighborhood, camps, school ground, or park having erosion, sedimentation, or pollution problems. Describe how these could be corrected through individual or group action. f. Carry out any other soil and water conservation project approved by your merit badge counselor.

Astronomy: (See Nature Director, for completion of merit badge, not to be started at camp)

5. Do the following: a. List the names of the five most visible planets. Explain which ones can appear in phases similar to lunar phases and which ones cannot, and explain why. b. Find out when each of the five most visible planets that you identified in requirement 5a will be observable in the evening sky during the next 12 months, then compile this information in the form of a chart or table. Update your chart monthly to show whether each planet will be visible during the early morning or in the evening sky.

6. At approximately weekly intervals, sketch the position of Venus, Mars or Jupiter in relation to the stars. Do this for at least four weeks and at the same time of night. On your sketch, record the date and time next to the planet's position. Use your sketch to explain how planets move.

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9. With your counselor's approval and guidance, do ONE of the following: a. Visit a planetarium or astronomical observatory. Submit a written report, a scrapbook, or a video presentation afterward to your counselor that includes the following information:

1. Activities occurring there 2. Exhibits and displays you saw 3. Telescopes and instruments being used 4. Celestial objects you observed.

b. Plan and participate in a three-hour observation session that includes using binoculars or a telescope. List the celestial objects you want to observe, and find each on a star chart or in a guidebook. Prepare an observing log or notebook. Show your plan, charts, and log or notebook to your counselor before making your observations. Review your log or notebook with your counselor afterward. c. Plan and host a star party for your Scout troop or other group such as your class at school. Use binoculars or a telescope to show and explain celestial objects to the group. d. Help an astronomy club in your community hold a star party that is open to the public. e. Personally take a series of photographs or digital images of the movement of the Moon, a planet, an asteroid or meteoroid, or a comet. In your visual display, label each image and include the date and time it was taken. Show all positions on a star chart or map. Show your display at school or at a troop meeting. Explain the changes you observed.

Mammal Study:3. Do ONE of the following:

a. Spend three hours in each of two different kinds of natural habitats or at different elevations. List the different mammal species and individual members that you identified by sight or sign. Tell why all mammals do not live in the same kind of habitat. b. Spend three hours on each of five days on at least a 25-acre area (about the size of 3 1/2 football fields). List the mammal species you identified by sight or sign. c. From study and reading, write a simple history of one nongame mammal that lives in your area. Tell how this mammal lived before its habitat was affected in any way by man. Tell how it reproduces, what it eats, what eats it, and its natural habitat. Describe its dependency upon plants, upon other animals (including man), and how they depend upon it. Tell how it is helpful or harmful to man.

4. Do ONE of the following: a. Under the guidance of a nature center or natural history museum, make two study skins of rats or mice. Tell the uses of study skins and mounted specimens respectively. b. Take good pictures of two kinds of mammals in the wild. Record light conditions, film used, exposure, and other factors, including notes on the activities of the pictured animals. c. Write a life history of a native game mammal that lives in your area, covering the points outlined in requirement 3c. List sources for this information. d. Make and bait a tracking pit. Report what mammals and other animals came to the bait.

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e. Visit a natural history museum. Report on how specimens are prepared and cataloged. Explain the purposes of museums. f. Write a report of 500 words on a book about a mammal species. g. Trace two possible food chains of carnivorous mammals from the soil through four stages to the mammal.

Fish and Wild Life Management:5. Do ONE of the following:

a. Construct, erect, and check regularly at least two artificial nest boxes (wood duck, bluebird, squirrel, etc.) and keep written records for one nesting season.

b. Construct, erect, and check regularly bird feeders and keep written records of the kinds of birds visiting the feeders in the winter.

c. Design and implement a backyard wildlife habitat improvement project and report the results.d. Design and construct a wildlife blind near a game trail, water hole, salt lick, bird feeder, or

birdbath and take good photographs or make sketches from the blind of any combination of 10 wild birds, mammals, reptiles, or amphibians.

10. Using resources found at the library and in periodicals, books, and the Internet (with your parent's permission), learn about three different kinds of work done by fish and wildlife managers. Find out the education and training requirements for each position.

Environmental Science:

1. Make a timeline of the history of environmental science in America. Identify the contribution made by the Boy Scouts of America to environmental science. Include dates, names of people or organizations, and important events.

3. Do ONE activity in EACH of the following categories (using the activities in this {the merit badge} pamphlet as the basis for planning and carrying out your projects): c. Water Pollution 3. Describe the impact of a waterborne pollutant on an aquatic community. Write a 100-word report on how that pollutant affected aquatic life, what the effect was, and whether the effect is linked to biomagnification. e. Endangered Species 1. Do research on one endangered species found in your state. Find out what its natural habitat is, why it is endangered, what is being done to preserve it, and how many individual organisms are left in the wild. Prepare a 100-word report about the organism, including a drawing. Present your report to your patrol or troop. 2. Do research on one species that was endangered or threatened but which has now recovered. Find out how the organism recovered, and what its new status is. Write a 100-word report on the species and discuss it with your counselor. 3. With your parent's and counselor's approval, work with a natural resource professional to identify two projects that have been approved to improve the habitat for a threatened or endangered species in your area. Visit the site of one of these projects and report on what you saw. f. Pollution Prevention, Resource Recovery, and Conservation 1. Look around your home and determine 10 ways your family can help reduce pollution. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned. 2. Determine 10 ways to conserve resources or use resources more efficiently in your home, at school, or at camp. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned. 3. Perform an experiment on packaging materials to find out which ones are biodegradable. Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.

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4. Choose two outdoor study areas that are very different from one another (e.g., hilltop vs. bottom of a hill; field vs. forest; swamp vs. dry land). For BOTH study areas, do ONE of the following: a. Mark off a plot of 4 square yards in each study area, and count the number of species found there. Estimate how much space is occupied by each plant species and the type and number of nonplant species you find. Write a report that adequately discusses the biodiversity and population density of these study areas. Discuss your report with your counselor. b. Make at least three visits to each of the two study areas (for a total of six visits), staying for at least 20 minutes each time, to observe the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Space each visit far enough apart that there are readily apparent differences in the observations. Keep a journal that includes the differences you observe. Then, write a short report that adequately addresses your observations, including how the differences of the study areas might relate to the differences noted, and discuss this with your counselor.

5. Using the construction project provided or a plan you create on your own, identify the items that would need to be included in an environmental impact statement for the project planned.

6. Find out about three career opportunities in environmental science. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.


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Handicraft Schedule & Pre-Requisites

Pre-Requisites:

**** Most Handicraft Merit Badges require the purchase of additional supplies at the Trading Post. Please encourage scouts to come prepared with additional funds ****

Woodcarving:1. Must have a Totin’ Chip Card.


TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY7:45-8:45 FLAG @ 7:45 BREAKFAST @ 8:00

9:00-10:00 Indian Lore Leatherwork

Indian Lore Leatherwork

Indian Lore Leatherwork

Indian Lore Leatherwork Merit Badge

Finish - Up OPEN for ALL

MERIT BADGES

10:00-11:00

Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

11:00-12:00

Art/Painting Woodcarving




2:00-3:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA 1:00-2:00

2:00-3:00 Art/Painting Woodcarving




2:00 Iron Man 2:30 - 5:00

Water Carnival3:00-4:00 Indian Lore

LeatherworkIndian Lore



Leatherwork

4:00-5:00 Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

Basketry Sculpture

5:45-6:45 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00

7:30-8:30

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Field/Xtreme Sports Schedule

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY7:45-8:45 FLAG @ 7:45 BREAKFAST @ 8:00

9:00-10:00 Climbing Climbing Climbing Climbing Space

ExplorationPathfinders

and Scoutmasters

10:00-11:00 11:00-12:00 Climbing Climbing Climbing Climbing12:30-1:00 LUNCH @ 12:30

1:00-2:00 INTRAMURALS on the SPORTS FIELD

2:00-3:00

Personal Fitness

Personal Fitness

Personal Fitness

Personal Fitness 2:00 Iron Man

2:30 - 5:00 Water

Carnival

3:00-4:00

4:00-5:00

Sports Athletics

Sports Athletics

Sports Athletics

Sports Athletics

5:45-6:45 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00


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Field Sports Pre-RequisitesPersonal Fitness:

1. Do the following: a. Before completing requirements 2 through 9, have your health-care practitioner give you a physical examination, using the Scout medical examination form. Describe the examination. Tell what questions the doctor asked about your health. Tell what health or medical recommendations the doctor made and report what you have done in response to the recommendations. Explain the following:

1. Why physical exams are important 2. Why preventative habits are important in maintaining good health. 3. Diseases that can be prevented and how. 4. The seven warning signs of cancer. 5. The youth risk factors that affect cardiovascular fitness in adulthood.

b. Have a dental examination. Get a statement saying that your teeth have been checked and cared for. Tell how to care for your teeth.

7. Outline a comprehensive 12-week physical fitness program using the results of your fitness tests. Be sure your program incorporates the endurance, intensity, and warm-up guidelines discussed in the Personal Fitness merit badge pamphlet. Before beginning your exercises, have the program approved by your counselor and parents.

8. Complete the physical fitness program you outlined in requirement 7. Keep a log of your fitness program activity (how long you exercised; how far you ran, swam, or biked; how many exercise repetitions you completed; your exercise heart rate; etc.). Repeat the aerobic fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility tests every two weeks and record your results. After the 12th week, repeat all four tests, record your results, and show improvement in each one. Compare and analyze your preprogram and post program body composition measurements. Discuss the meaning and benefit of your experience, and describe your long-term plans regarding your personal fitness.

9. Find out about three career opportunities in personal fitness. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for these professions. Discuss what you learned with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.

Sports:4. Take part for one season (or four months) as a competitive individual or as a member of an

organized team in TWO of the following sports: baseball, basketball, bowling, cross-country, field hockey, football, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo. Your counselor may approve in advance other recognized sports, but not any sport that is restricted and not authorized by the Boy Scouts of America. Then with your chosen sports do the following:

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a. Give the rules and etiquette for the two sports you picked.

b. List the equipment needed for the two sports you chose. Describe the protective equipment and appropriate clothing (if any) and explain why it is needed.

c. Draw diagrams of the playing areas for your two sports.

Athletics:3. Select an athletic activity to participate in for one season (or four months). Then do the following:

a. With guidance from your counselor, establish a personal training program suited to the activity you have chosen.

b. Organize a chart for this activity and monitor your progress during this time. c. Explain to your counselor the equipment necessary to participate in this activity, and the

appropriate clothing for the season and the locale. d. At the end of the season, discuss with your counselor the progress you have made during

training and competition and how your development has affected you mentally and physically.

5. Complete the activities in FOUR of the following groups and show improvement over a three-month period.

6. Do the following a. Prepare plans for conducting a sports meet or field day that includes 10activities, at least five of

which must come from the groups mentioned in requirement 5. Outline the duties of each official needed and list the equipment the meet will require.

b. With your parent and counselor's approval, serve as an official or volunteer at a sports meet to observe officials in action. Tell your counselor about your responsibilities at the meet and discuss what you learned.


Shooting Sports Schedule

TIME Archery Rifle Range8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00-10:00 Archery Rifle

10:00-11:00 Open Shoot Rifle

11:00-12:00 Archery Shot Gun51

12:00-1:00 LUNCH @ 12:30

1:00-2:00 SIESTA

2:00-3:00 Open Shoot Rifle

3:00-4:00 Archery Shot Gun

4:00-5:00 MB Open Shoot Open Shoot

5:15-7:00 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00

7:15-8:30 Robin Hood Shoot Thursday

Dynamic Duo TuesdayTomahawk Throwing

Wednesday

Open Shoot for Rifle:$0.50 for ten rounds to be purchased at Trading Post

Open Shoot for Shotgun:$20 for one box of shells and skeet to be purchase at Trading Post

Robin Hood Shoot:Join the shooting sports staff for an archery competition. Enjoy your time at the range and show your skill by becoming a top shot striking the bulls-eye.

Dynamic Trio Shoot:Shooting is a team sport. Does your troop have what it takes? Join the shooting sports staff on Thursday evenings for the Dynamic Trio shoot. Teams consist of a scoutmaster (or other adult leader) and a scout age 15-18 and another scout age 12-15. Troops may enter as many individual teams as they like. Individuals may only participate on one team. Will your troop earn the summer high score?


Shooting Sports Pre-Requisites

Rifle Merit Badge Pre-Requisites: Requires shooting ability. Difficult for Novices to complete in one week Must be 12 years old or older Must bring to camp a summary of his State Hunting Laws Must have the merit badge book (available to him) Cost is $10.00 due at the first class Shotgun Merit Badge Pre-Requisites: Requires shooting ability. Difficult for Novices to complete in one week Scout should be of a larger stature (we use 12 gauge) Must bring to camp a summary of his State Hunting Laws Scout must be 14 years old

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Must have the merit badge book (available to him) Cost is $25.00 due at first class

Archery Merit Badge Pre-Requisites: Must buy an arrow kit at trading post (est. $5) Needs Archery skills to pass badge Must have the merit badge book (available to him)


Health Lodge Schedule

TIME Health Lodge or maybe move desks into staff launge

8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST9:00-10:00 First Aid

10:00-11:00

Emergency Preparedness Medicine11:00-

12:00 First Aid

12:00-2:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA @ 1:00

2:00-3:00 Safety

3:00-4:00 Fire SafetyPublic Health

4:00-5:00 Traffic Safety

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Health Lodge Pre-RequisitesFirst Aid:

1. Satisfy your counselor that you have current knowledge of all first aid requirements for Tenderfoot Rank, Second Class Rank, and First Class Rank.

2. Do the following: a. Explain how you would obtain emergency medical assistance from your home, on a wilderness camping trip, and during an activity on open water. b. Explain the term triage. c. Explain the standard precautions as applied to bloodborne pathogens. d. Prepare a first aid kit for your home. Display and discuss its contents with your counselor.

Emergency Prep:6.

b. Identify the government or community agencies that normally handle and prepare for the emergency services listed under 6a, and explain to your counselor how a group of Scouts could volunteer to help in the event of these types of emergencies.

c. Find out who is your community's emergency management director and learn what this person does to prepare, respond to, recover from, and mitigate and prevent emergency situations in your community. Discuss this information with your counselor and apply what you discover to the chart you created for requirement 2b.

8. Do the following:a. Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your troop when needed to do emergency service. If there is

already a plan, explain it. Tell your part in making it work.

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http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/First_Class_Rank

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Second_Class_Rank

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Tenderfoot_Rank

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Tenderfoot_Rank

b. Take part in at least one troop mobilization. Before the exercise, describe your part to your counselor. Afterward, conduct an "after-action" lesson, discussing what you learned during the exercise that required changes or adjustments to the plan.

c. Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evacuation is needed. Explain the needs and uses of the contents

Traffic Safety:

5. Do ONE of the following:b. Using the Internet (with your parent's permission), visit five Web sites that cover safe driving for

teenagers. As a group, discuss what you learn with your counselor and at least three other teenagers.


Technology Center ScheduleNew in 2010, the Technology Center is be located in the Administration Building. It will

contain computers with internet access.

TIME Tech Center8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00-10:00 Photography 10:00-11:00 Computers11:00-12:00 Chess

12:00-2:00 LUNCH @ 12:30 SIESTA @ 1:00

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2:00-3:00 Scouting Heritage3:00-4:00 Computers4:00-5:00 Geo-Caching5:15-7:00 FLAG @ 5:45 DINNER @ 6:00


Technology Center Pre-Requisites Computers:9. Find out about three career opportunities in the computer industry. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you. Report what you learn to your counselor.

Photography:** Scouts need to bring their own personal digital camera, charger and cable(s) to connect to the computer. Cell phones are not suitable cameras**

Geo-Caching:** The following requirements are POST-REQUIREMENTS to be done after the first six requirements are completed at home. **7. With your parent’s permission*, go to www.geocaching.com. Type in your zip code to locate public geocaches in your area. Share the posted information about three of those geocaches with your counselor. Then, pick one of the three and find the cache.*To fulfill this requirement, you will need to set up a free user account with www.geocaching.com. Ask your parent for permission and help before you do so.

8. Do ONE of the following: 1. If a Cache to Eagle® series exists in your council, visit at least three of the 12 locations in the series. Describe the projects that each cache you visit highlights, and explain how the Cache to Eagle® program helps share our Scouting service with the public. 2. Create a Scouting-related Travel Bug® that promotes one of the values of Scouting. "Release" your Travel Bug into a public geocache and, with your parent’s permission, monitor its progress at

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www.geocaching.com for 30 days. Keep a log, and share this with your counselor at the end of the 30-day period. 3. Set up and hide a public geocache, following the guidelines in the Geocaching merit badge pamphlet. Before doing so, share with your counselor a six-month maintenance plan for the geocache where you are personally responsible for the first three months. After setting up the geocache, with your parent’s permission, follow the logs online for 30 days and share them with your counselor. 4. Explain what Cache In Trash Out (CITO) means, and describe how you have practiced CITO at public geocaches or at a CITO event. Then, either create CITO containers to leave at public caches, or host a CITO event for your unit or for the public.

9. Plan a geohunt for a youth group such as your troop or a neighboring pack, at school, or your place of worship. Choose a theme, set up a course with at least four waypoints, teach the players how to use a GPS unit, and play the game. Tell your counselor about your experience, and share the materials you used and developed for this event.

Chess:

***Scout must come with chess MB workbook complete, so that more time can be spent competing and playing the game – for workbook go to: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/e/e4/Chess.pdf


Evening Programs & OutpostsMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

H20Open Boating & Open Swimming

7:15pm

Island Outpost Meet at Waterfront

7:00pm

Open Boating & Open Swimming

7:15pm

Extreme Sports

Rappelling on Small Wall(all ages)

Meet at Extreme Sports

Mountain Biking (age 14 and

above ) Meet at Bike Pad

7pm

Mountain Biking(all ages )


Rappelling on Big Wall

(age 14 and above )


NatureAstronomy MBMeet at White Tarp 7:30pm

Astronomy MBLocation & Time

TBAAstronomy MB

Meet at White Tarp 7:30pm

Handicraft Rocket Building Rocket Building Rocket Building Rocket Building

Shooting Sports

Robin HoodArchery Range

7:15pm

Tomahawk Throwing

Shotgun Range7:15pm

Dynamic DuoRifle Range

7:15pm

Outdoor Skills

Totin’ Chip

Meet at Commissioner’s

Site

OutpostMeet at Dining

Hall5:15pm

Pathfinder

OutpostMeet at

Pathfinder

1st & 2nd Class Aquatic

Requirements

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7:00pm Meet at Waterfront7:00pm

Field Sports

Field Sport Activity Field Sport Activity

Tech Center MB Open

Geo-Patching Geo-Cache Hunt(Bring patches)


Evening Programs DescriptionsBouldering & Rappelling:Scouts interested in learning about and trying bouldering or rappelling in our climbing program areas should check out one of our evening programs around camp. Bouldering is a style of climbing where the challenges of the climb lie in the first six feet of the rock. Done without ropes, Camp Turrell has many new sites for scrambling and bouldering on the bluestone. However, should the climbing aspect not appeal to you, join our rappelling program and do a roped descent of a rock face 20-70’ tall. Interested? Scouts should sign-up on Sunday or Monday of their week in camp. The Climbing Director will announce where and when to meet. Interested scouts should also bring long pants (required) and stiff soled boots (recommended) to camp.

Mountain Biking:Can you think of anything more adventurous than tackling our mountain biking trails? Camp Turrell offers two mountain biking programs in camp this year. First, for our older (15+) scouts, we offer a two hour afternoon mountain biking program. Scouts will learn riding techniques as well as how to maintain both the bikes and the trails on which they ride. Many of the cycling merit badge requirements can be met during these afternoon sessions.For our other scouts (14+) who would still like the opportunity to try riding, we offer an open program of mountain biking on Mondays and Wednesdays. After signing up for the program, should there be great demand for the limited number of bikes we have, scouts will be assigned an evening riding opportunity.

Canoeing Outpost:The Canoeing Outpost will give scouts a chance to take advantage of the wilderness that Camp Turrell has to offer, but why stop at the wilderness. This outpost will go that extra step. Scouts will meet @ 5:45 PM in front of the trading post. They will hike to the water front, canoe to the big rock, cook their meal over an oven fire and have the rest of their time to canoe until dusk and then experience the clearest of skies that Camp Turrell has to offer by sleeping under the stars. See the evening activities schedule for the day.

Open Aquatics:The aquatics area at Camp Turrell offers open swimming & boating every afternoon. Troops also have the opportunity to engage in troop swims. Please talk to our Aquatics director for more information. Time: everyday 4-5pm except Friday.Snorkeling, BSA Kayaking, BSA BSA Mile Swim (Look at Aquatics Schedule)

Robin Hood Shoot:Join the shooting sports staff for an archery competition. Enjoy your time at the range and show your skill by becoming a top shot striking the bulls-eye.

Dynamic Duo Shoot:Shooting is a team sport. Does your troop have what it takes? Join the shooting sports staff on Thursday evenings for the Dynamic Duo shoot. Teams consist of a scoutmaster (or other adult leader) and a scout age 12-17. Troops may enter as many individual teams as they like. Individuals may only participate on one team. Will your troop earn the summer high score?

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Tomahawk Throwing: Are you Turrell's next "TOP SHOT" this year's water Carnival might feature a Top Shot competition so make sure you have some practice with our new Tomahawks. Competition is just one way to be eligible for the Tomahawk raffle at the end of each week.


Pathfinder Program : A First Year Camper Guide IntroductionOur Pathfinder Program is the first year camper program. It is an all day program that runsMonday through Friday with several activities that will keep scouts interested throughoutthe week. At its core, The Pathfinder Program is just like any other first year camper program; that is, the scouts will learn what is needed for rank advancement such as knots, first aid, wood tools use and safety, compasses, and cooking. However, scouts attending the program will alsoearn three merit badges: Basketry, Fingerprinting and Space Exploration(NEW THIS YEAR). The program infuses the rank advancement and merit badge requirements so that there is a seamless flow from one topic to the next.

Additionally, the Pathfinder Program has THREE special activities during the week. The first, occurring on Tuesday night, is the overnighter. The second is our trip to the Archery Range!!! Our other special activity, the nature hike, happens on Friday morning. Overall, the Pathfinder Program will keep scouts occupied during the entire week while also managing to keep each scout entertained.

What To ExpectRank advancement, though, lies at the core of Pathfinder Program, and below is a list of all the requirements the scouts will fulfill:

Tenderfoot Second Class First Class1 1a (tentative) 64a 1b (tentative) 7ab4b 2 8abcd4c 3c 9abc

5-11 3d12a 3e12b 3f

4 - 67a7c

8abc

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At the end of the week, each scout will receive back a progress sheet listing the requirements. On the sheet, each requirement will be marked as to

whether the scout completed the requirement.

Merit Badge Pre-Requisites

Nature Hike SupplementalIntro: What is the Nature hike you may ask? Well it’s just the most fun the scouts willhave during the entire week! It starts out at the Pathfinder Pavilion and allows scouts to explore parts of 900+acres of the Dow Drukker Scout Reservation. Preparation: The physical activity for the hike is not strenuous so most scouts will beable to complete it with little trouble. However, each scout does need to be prepared, andthe most important item is water and plenty of it too.

Equipment Checklist for ScoutsThe following is a checklist of what each scout should bring to him with camp. Howeverthis only a supplemental to that which the camp’s checklist provides, and it is also notabsolutely necessary for the scouts to bring everything below. Compasses, for example,can be borrowed from the program if need be:• Compass• Sleeping bag (overnighter)• Ground Cloth (overnighter)• Flashlight• Two Quart Canteen (overnighter / five mile hike)• Water Shoes• Swimming SuitOvernighter SupplementalIntro: Weather permitting, the overnighter will occur Tuesday evening starting at 7:00pmpm. The scouts meet at the Pathfinder Pavilion, from which they walk a short ways to thecampsite. Scouts will leave from the campsite at 6:45 am, the scouts will be woken up at 6, and they will be back at the waterfront by 6:45AM in time for the Polar Bear Swim or can continue to their site.Requirements Fulfilled: The overnighter is the best part of the week for everyone. Butbesides having fun, the scouts will be able to fulfill the tenderfoot requirements forpitching a tent and an overnight campout. They will also be able to fulfill those relating tocooking.

FAQ’sAre leaders needed on the overnighter or five mile hike?Leaders are never required to attend any of the Pathfinder activities. Of course, though,

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leaders are always invited.

Is the Pathfinder Program useful for scouts that are already tenderfoot? Second class?The Pathfinder Program is for all First Year Campers at Camp Turrell. The program will NOT be like last years program. If you are part of the program, you must be in the entire Pathfinder Program. This year, there is not a set daily schedule for tenderfoot, 2nd and 1st

class requirements. Instead, it is infused into the weekly activities that the scouts will take part in.

Will the schedule change?On Sunday night, each troop will receive a Pathfinder program schedule. However,depending upon weather or the progress of scouts, the schedule may change from time totime. But, we will not change the schedule without informing troops first, and we will notmake any major changes. We will also definitely cover everything on the program schedule without exception.

Will scouts have fun?YES! Having fun is the primary goal of the Pathfinder Program as a scout will not remain in boyscouts unless his first time at summer camp is a good experience

Tentative Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday9-10am Leadership

Building Exercises &

Patrol Exercises

Basketry Basketry Basketry Space Exploration

10-11am

Overnight Preparation First Aid Nature &

Wood Tools Hike11-12pm Compass & Maps Finger Printing

2-3pm Outdoor Skills & Knots

Field Sports & First Aid

Outdoor Skills & Lashings Service Project

Water Carnival

3-4pm Space Exploration Archery Open Shoot Space Exploration Space Exploration

4-5pm Open Swim/Open Boat Finger Printing Compass & Maps Knots

Night Time

Activities

Pathfinder Flag Exercises

OvernighterMeet at

Pathfinder 7pm

Aquatic Requirements

for 2nd & 1st Class

Meet at Waterfront 7pm

Work on Basketry FLAG


PROJECT“SOARING EAGLE”a.k.a Trail to Eagle Program

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OFFERED ONLY WEEK 5

Project Soaring Eagle program at Camp Turrell is designed to give your older scouts an opportunity to continue working on merit badges while at camp in order to encourage them on their "Trail to Eagle". Project Soaring Eagle is designed to have merit badges running at specific times, which will often conflict with other camp merit badges. This is unavoidable, and scouts who choose Project Soaring Eagle must realize this. In addition, scouts will not necessarily be able to finish these badges while at camp. However, with proper pre-camp work, many can be completed. Boys taking part in the Project Soaring Eagle program will be put into an Eagle provisional patrol that they will work together as a team for the whole week.

FEE TOTAL: Camp Fee + $30.00

***THE NON-REFUNDABLE $30.00 IS DUE AT THE DATE OF THE REGISTRATION MEETING AND PREREQUESITE MEETING ON 3/712***

This extra fee will include your provisional scoutmaster along with a personalized “Camp Turrell Project Soaring Eagle Framed Certificate”.

REQUIREMENTS:Project Soaring Eagle is designed for scouts who have attained the rank of Star class and are attending a summer camp for at least the third summer. Scouts are required to attend the special Project Soaring Eagle training sessions. If they do not attend, they will not be able to work on the merit badges.

A meeting will be held on March 12th, 2013 at 6:45 PM for any boy wishing to participate in Project Soaring Eagle. We will meet at the Council

Office in Oakland. This meeting will be used to go over the beginning stages of the three-month merit badges. If you are not at the meeting you can NOT take

the badges at camp.*** Please bring registration and a check of $30.00 made out to NNJC to this

meeting to reserve your spot!!!

MERIT BADGE PREREQUISITES & MERIT BADGE SCHEDULE TO COME AT MEETING


Adult Leader Training Program InformationEvery Scout Deserves a Trained Leader,

And Camp Turrell is here to help!!

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Completed Prior to Camp:

1. Complete Youth Protection Training

Completed at Camp:

2. Complete Leader Specific Training for your position

All “Prior to camp” requirements are to be Complete before camp.

Go to: http://olc.scouting.org/ to complete the prerequisites and present a copy of your certification at camp.

Check out the Adult Leader Training ScheduleAt Checkin


Camp Turrell TraditionsStaff-For-A-DayAre you a scout with two or more years of attendance at Camp Turrell? If so you might want to be a staff for a day. Sign ups will be done on Sunday night. On Wednesday, you will choose an area to work in all day, get a personalized “Staff-For-A-Day” tee shirt and all the perks being on staff has to offer.

Water CarnivalThis is the time when the scouts can show off their aquatic abilities. Who can resist a soggy PB&J eaten by your scoutmaster and of course how can we forget the famous scoutmaster splash. From non-swimmers to beginners to swimmers, all can take part in the water carnival. Join us from 3pm-5pm on Friday.

Iron Man/Decathalon

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Before the water carnival, at 2pm we will be having the Camp Turrell Ironman/Decathalon Competition. It will consist of swimming, rowing, cycling, running, shooting and a test of your scouting skill as a team event. It will make for a very challenging adventure this summer during your stay at Camp Turrell. Do you have what it takes??

Order of the ArrowOur strong camp program is reflected through the participation of the Lenapehoking Lodge IX. The Order conducts a recognition ceremony for all recently elected members to the order every Wednesday evening. The Order also conducts a Brotherhood test during the week and concludes it at the Wednesday evening ceremony. All Order of the Arrow members are invited to assist with these activities. Please see the camp summer chief for more information. Wednesday will be OA day. Those that are members can wear their sashes and will be invited to the OA social in the dining hall around 7:30-8pm

Baden Powell Troop Award To earn the Baden Powell Troop award in camp, each troop must complete 11 of the following 17 items, of which the first five (5) are mandatory. Troops interested in pursuing the award must pick-up an application in the Camp Office. Once complete, the form may be turned in to the Camp Commissioners or Program Director. Each item is followed by a parenthesis, which indicates a staff member who can verify that you have completed the requirement.

Dining HallCamp Turrell’s Dining Hall has become a showcase for troop pride since its construction. Every year, many troops arrive in camp with a donation to decorate the dining hall. Ideas for donations include, troop sign with troop number, year, and location information, and even more creative variations like a small sail boat representing a troop with the year they attended on the bow. Please feel free to be creative, but keep your donation modest in size so that we have room for growth! Although a simple building, this growing tradition makes fills our meals with the scouting spirit.

Adopt-a-CampsiteMany of Camp Turrell’s campsites have been adopted by troops in the Northern New Jersey Council. It is through the dedication of many of our troops that our campsites have been improved over the years. For example, many troops have opted to gravel the paths throughout their campsites or build work tables to make their patrol cooking easier. Please consider adopting and improving a site to make our summer camp better! If a site has already been adopted, please feel free to contact us prior to camp so that we may combine the efforts of our troops in adopting, improving, and caring for our sites.

Guardian of the Embers

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For many years, scout troops have volunteered to guard the embers of the opening and closing campfires. Rather than extinguishing the fire with water, several scouts remain behind to share the scouting spirit around the glow of the dying embers. At Camp Turrell, we believe that the scouting spirit and our week in camp are closely related to those final embers. One of the myths is that the campfire embers determine good fortune and weather in camp. If we guard them and allow them to burn themselves out, the fortune of good weather will result. Alternately, if we extinguish them with water, we determine poor, rainy weather for our weeks in camp. Who will guard the embers this year?

Closing CampfireThe closing campfire relies on the performances of the scouts and scoutmasters in each troop. Although the staff cannot resist another opportunity to lead a song or act in a skit, troops should plan on coming to camp prepared with at least one song and one skit for the closing campfire. Add to the scouting spirit in camp, plan and practice at your troop meetings before camp.

Gateway ContestEvery year, troops coming to camp compete against one another to build a gateway to their site. Last year’s gateways included towers, turnstiles, rock walls, and many other more elaborate designs. Will your troop win the coveted gateway competition? Your gateway must be completed by Thursday evening. A great Traditional Camp Turrell Trophy will be awarded to the troop with the best design and use of scout craft abilities.Camp CommissionersThe Camp Commissioners are your troop’s primary connection to the camp staff and your frontline troubleshooters. A Commissioner will visit your site each day to perform a health, safety, and cleanliness check as well as talk with campers and adult leaders. Please use the commissioners as a resource to obtain equipment or supplies; schedule special activities; and solve problems or answer questions about camp. Remember, the camp staff is also here to supplement and enhance your troop goals for camp.

Troop PhotosOnce again the camp will be hosting Troop Photos. This is a great tradition for the camp because it enables you to keep the memories of the camp and of your friends alive within the picture. Not only is it a great piece of Camp Turrell memorabilia, it is also one of the best fundraisers that you can take part in to help out Turrell. All of the money raised from the pictures goes completely back into the camp. Last summer you and your troops raised a grand total of $800. The goal for this summer is to break that $1000 mark…and we will thanks to you!! You can order your photos in advance by filling out the attached sheet and handing it in with your registration

All Photo purchases will include a Photo of the 2014 Staff 4x6 photo=$4

5x7 photo=$7

8x10 photo=$10

Council Beaver DaysThe Northern New Jersey Council and Camp Turrell have several Beaver Days each year to assist the Ranger and camp staff in order to prepare camp for the upcoming events of

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summer. The projects range from light clean-up to major camp improvements. Since you are camping with us this summer, please join us on to help us prepare, maintain, and improve our camp. Thank you!


Camp Turrell Pre-Registration FormReturn this page, your roster and payment by March 15th! The price goes up if post

marked after March 15th.Contact Information

Troop: _______Week of Camp: ________________________Council/District: _________________________ Scoutmaster Name: ________________________Address: _________________________

_________________________City/State: _________________________ Zip Code: ________________________________Phone Number 1: _________________________ Phone Number 2: ___________________________Email: _________________________Total Number of Scouts: ________ Total Number of Adults: ________ Site: ________________Program Pre-Registration

Pathfinder Program (First-Year Camper): _______ scouts

Dining Services Option: A) Dining Hall – All Meals(Circle one.) B) Patrol Cooking – All Meals

C) Patrol Cooking with ____ meals in Dining HallPlease specify which meals: ___________________________.

Please identify any dietary needs your scouts may have (need & number of scouts):_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please note that Sunday and Friday night dinners will only be in the dining hall. No “in site” meals will be available for dinner on those days.

# OF TROOP PHOTOS ______4X6 ______5X7 ______8X10

Return this form by April 15!

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On-Line Merit Badge Registration Information will be shared at the March 12th Kick-Off Meeting at 7:00 at the Council Office.


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