The World Conservation Award   

The World Conservation Award provides an opportunity for individual Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers to "think globally" and "act locally" to preserve and improve our environment. This program is designed to make youth members aware that all nations are closely related through natural resources and that we are interdependent with our world environment.

World Conservation Award - Cub Scouts

As a Wolf Cub Scout, you can earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award by doing the following:

1. Complete achievement #7 - Your Living World
2. Complete all Arrow Points in 2 of the following 3 Electives:
   • #13 - Birds
   • #15 - Grow Something
   • #19 - Fishing
3. Participate in a den or pack conservation project in addition to the above

As a Bear Cub Scout, you can earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award by doing the following:

1. Complete achievement #5 - Sharing your World with Wildlife
2. Complete all requirements in 2 of the following 3 electives:
   • #2 - Weather
   • #12 - Nature Crafts
   • #15 - Water and Soil Conservation
3. Participate in a den or pack conservation project in addition to the above

As a Webelos Scout, you can earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award by doing the following:

1. Earn the Forester activity badge.
2. Earn the Naturalist activity badge.
3. Earn the Outdoorsman activity badge.
4. Participate in a den or pack conservation project.

• Cub Scout World Conservation Award - Application

This award can be earned only once while you are in Cub Scouting
(i.e. as either a Wolf Cub Scout, a Bear Cub Scout, or as a Webelos Scout).

World Conservation Award - Boy Scouts 

You can earn this award by earning the following merit badges:

1. Environmental Science merit badge
2. Either Soil and Water Conservation OR Fish and Wildlife Management merit badge
3. Citizenship in the World merit badge

• Boy Scout World Conservation Award - Application

World Conservation Award - Venturing

Complete the Ecology elective for the Ranger Award:

1. Explain the basic natural systems, cycles, and changes over time and how they are evidenced in a watershed near where you live. Include the four basic elements, land use patterns, and at least six different species in your analysis and how they have changed over time. Discuss both biological and physical components.

2. Describe at least four environmental study areas near where you live. Include the reasons for selecting these areas, their boundaries, user groups, past inventories, any outside forces that interact with them, and a list of what things could be studied at each of them.

3. Plan a field trip to each of the above areas, including detailed plans for conducting various investigations. Follow all of the requirements such as trip permits, safety plans, transportation plans, equipment needs, etc.

4(a) Under the guidance of a natural resources professional, carry out an investigation of an ecological subject approved by your Advisor. Inventory and map the area. Conduct a detailed investigation providing specific data for a specific topic.

4(b) Document and present your findings to your crew, another crew, a Cub Scout or Boy Scout group, or another group.

5. Teach others in your crew, another crew, a Cub Scout or Boy Scout group, or another group how to carry out an ecological investigation. Use steps 3 and 4 above with the group so that they may also learn by doing.

Show the relationships of global events and conditions, both political and environmental, to the areas that you described in steps 1 and 2 above. Determine how conditions in your local area also appear in other areas around the world. Describe some of the interrelationships between people and our natural resources that affect our global environment. Teach others in your crew, another crew, a Cub Scout or Boy Scout group, or another group about the interconnectivity that we all have with each other and our environment.

• Venturing World Conservation Award - Application Form

-This award is worn as a temporary patch on right pocket of the scout uniform shirt. 

Hornaday Information - from BSA

Congratulations to Troop 140 of Potawatomi Trails on earning the prestigious William T. Hornaday Unit Award for service to conservation!

Over a four year period, the members of Troop 140, under the leadership of Scouts and Scoutmaster Rick Hintz, performed significant conservation projects for Jubilee College State Park in Brimfield, Illinois northwest of Peoria.

The projects were planned and performed with the cooperation of site superintendent Tom Hintz who acted as the conservation adviser for the projects. The projects included removal of invasive plant species, creation of a firebreak, planting nearly 900 native saplings as replacements for elms dying of Dutch Elm disease, building and installing information kiosks in the park, and collecting seeds from native prairie plants for future restoration projects. Three of these projects were done under the leadership of Scouts as part of the service project requirement for earning the rank of Eagle Scout.

William T Hornaday Unit Award - Interactive Application Form

A Hornaday unit certificate, No. 21-110, is awarded to a pack, troop, team, or crew of five or more Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, or Venturers for a unique, substantial conservation project. At least 60 percent of registered unit members must participate. At least 60 percent of the registered unit members must participate. Complete the application for the unit award and submit it to Three Fires Council, attention Ed Hedborn, Conservation Committee Chair. The project description form should indicate the category of the project—soil and water conservation, fish and wildlife management, forestry and range management, energy conservation, air and water pollution control, resource recovery, or hazardous material disposal and management; the specific title of the project; and a detailed description of what was done, who did it, when it was done, and how it was done. Be sure to include any other pertinent information.

 Conservation Good Turn  

 Conservation Good Turn - Brochure & Award Requirements