Forestry
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![]() | This is the Forestry merit badge for Scouts, Lone Scouts, and qualified Venturers or Sea Scouts. |
![]() | Forestry merit badge requires prior counselor approval for requirement(s) #5. |
Forestry merit badge | ||
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Status: | Elective | |
Created: | 1911 | |
Discontinued: | no | |
BSA Advancement ID: | 054 | |
Requirements revision: | 2016 | |
Latest pamphlet revision: | 2015 |
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“ | In working through the Forestry merit badge requirements, Scouts will explore the remarkable complexity of a forest and identify many species of trees and plants and the roles they play in a forest's life cycle.They will also discover some of the resources forests provide to humans and come to understand that people have a very large part to play in sustaining the health of forests. | ” |
Requirement 6 shown below is included in the listing in the current Forestry merit badge pamphlet, but was omitted from the listing in the 2016 Boy Scout Requirements booklet.
Forestry is one of the elective merit badges for the William T. Hornaday awards for Scouts BSA.
The Forestry merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911.
![]() | Forestry merit badge is an option for the National Outdoor Badge for Conservation. |
Forestry merit badge requirements | ![]() | ||
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Notes
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- Requirement 1 is identical to requirement 4g of the Nature merit badge.
- The BSA Forestry Troop Program Feature offers meeting and activity plans to include Forestry as one of your monthly themes.
- Forestry is a popular summer camp merit badge.
Requirement resources
The Troop Foresty Monthly Theme includes meeting and activity materials.
1. Leaf Identification Key
Related awards
See also
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General Merit Badge information
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External links
- American Forest & Paper Association: Forest Products Resources
- Plant-It 2020
- Forest Puzzles
- Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
- Environmental Effects of Whole-Tree Timber Harvesting
- TAPPI Paper University
- WWW Virtual Library: Forestry
- 3b: Locate Your Watershed Enter your zip code to find your watershed. From the EPA.
- 4: Forest Management USDA Forest Service site