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Forest Service
The forest service was founded to protect our forests for the next generation, while also being able to use their resources. This is very important because most of the campsites that BSA uses are founded because of this, using them and protecting them. BSA enforces a leave no trace policy that encourages people to enjoy the forests and natural areas but to protect them for their beauty and for future generations. -
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Dust Bowl
There was a drought, and citizens used horrendous farming techniques that lead to the soil depleting and the soil kicking up the wind and causing major dust storms and starvation. -
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson began to caution about the use of DDT and pesticides. She is commonly known as the mother of the Environmental Science movement. BSA helps out with the Environmental Science movement on every campout by being environmentally conscious about their choices and their use of natural resources. -
Natural Environmental Policy Act
This is the first comprehensive Environmental Law prohibiting construction on land if it negatively affects the environment. This law was the first step in many other environmentally friendly laws made to help protect the environment for future generations. -
First Earth Day
The First Earth Day is a monumental step for the entire world and also for the Environmental Science Movement. Every year most Boy Scout troops do service projects to help the Environment and to commemorate this great planet for all that it is done for the human race as a whole. -
Scouting Keep America Beautiful day
The Boy Scouts of America organized scouts to collect over a million tons of litter. -
Clean Water Act
This act imposed a legal limit to the number of pollutants in water. This made water safer to drink for the entirety of the US population. -
Exxon Valdez
This is one of the worst oil tanker disasters in history. The ship spilled a lot of oil and that affected the wildlife around it. A major effort to clean up this mess was put into effect to try to diminish if not eliminate potential damages to the ecosystem. -
ArrowCorps5
The U.S. Forest Service and over 3,600 scouts helped make $5.6 million dollars in improvements to the national parks. -
Present Day
A lot of scouts do their eagle scout projects with something that helps the environment or makes the environment a better place. This continuous involvement and continuous need to improve the environment make the Boy Scouts a great place to help out the environment for the better and to organize others to do so.