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# This badge is one of the merit badges required to earn one of the [[William T. Hornaday Awards (Boy Scouting)|William T. Hornaday Awards for Boy Scouts]]. | # This badge is one of the merit badges required to earn one of the [[William T. Hornaday Awards (Boy Scouting)|William T. Hornaday Awards for Boy Scouts]]. | ||
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*3b: [http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm Locate Your Watershed] Enter your zip code to find your watershed. From the EPA. | *3b: [http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm Locate Your Watershed] Enter your zip code to find your watershed. From the EPA. | ||
*4: [http://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/ Forest Management] USDA Forest Service site | *4: [http://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/ Forest Management] USDA Forest Service site | ||
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Revision as of 14:47, November 29, 2010

![]() | This is the Boy Scout Forestry Merit Badge. Webelos Scouts can earn the Forester activity badge. |
![]() | Forestry 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: | 2006 | |
Latest pamphlet revision: | 2008 |
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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. | ” |
Forestry is one of the elective merit badges for the William T. Hornaday awards for Boy Scouts. The Forestry merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911.
Forestry requirements | ![]() | ||
View the change list (history) of these requirements. The text of these requirements may be locked. In that case, they can only be edited by an administrator. Please note any errors found in the above requirements on this article's Talk Page. |
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- This badge is one of the merit badges required to earn one of the William T. Hornaday Awards for Boy Scouts.
- 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.
Requirement resources
The Troop Foresty Monthly Theme includes meeting and activity materials.
1. Leaf Identification Key
Related awards
Ecology-related awards
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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