Roving Outdoor Conservation School

Roving Outdoor Conservation School

The Roving Outdoor Conservation School is a twenty-one day special trek program at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. The program is open to participants who are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. R.O.C.S. is an educational backpacking experience rooted in conservation and environmental science education.

Throughout the trek participants have both structured and spontaneous lessons rooted in environmental science, visits from guest speakers, and the opportunity to work on various conservation projects with the Philmont Conservation Department and the U.S. Forest Service in the Valle Vidal Unit of the Carson National Forest. While on the trail participants learn about ecology, botany, dendrology, geology, soils, hydrology, forestry, fire ecology, wildlife management, range management, environmental policy, Leave No Trace principles, and environmental ethics. Participants tackle diverse conservation projects ranging from trailbuilding to meadow encroachment to timber stand improvement to erosion control to streambed restoration.

The Roving Outdoor Conservation School exposes participants to the land management challenges facing the West, as well as the rest of America. The program emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and focuses on empowering participants so that they may transfer what they learn on the trail to their lives back home.

ee also

*Cimarron, New Mexico
*Order of the Arrow Trail Crew
*Outdoor education
*Philbreak
*Ranch Hands
*Rayado Program
*"The Gospel of the Red Man" (1936 & 1958)
*William T. Hornaday Awards

External links

* [http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/psashop/2006ROCSApp.pdf#search='Roving%20Outdoor%20Conservation%20School' 2006 R.O.C.S. Application]
* [http://www.scouting.org/Awards/HornadayAwards/awards.aspx About Scouting:] William T. Hornaday Awards
* [http://GeoScouting.futurethought.org GeoScouting] "High-Touch with High-Tech" land navigation patrol leadership skills
* Virtual tourism bioneers: St. Louis Council BSA [http://homepage.mac.com/burkhartmnus/VIEW/SHOW/SHOW.HTM Philmont Expedition 817-F]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Philmont Scout Ranch — Philmont redirects here. For other uses, see Philmont (disambiguation). Philmont Scout Ranch Black Bull, symbol of Philmont …   Wikipedia

  • Rayado Program — Rayado is a prestigious and secretive twenty day backpacking program held every summer in two sessions at Philmont Scout Ranch. Rayado crews, accompanied by two of the Ranger Department s best qualified members, are put together by Philmont staff …   Wikipedia

  • Ernest Thompson Seton — Infobox Person name = Ernest Thompson Seton image size = 200px caption = birth date = birth date|1860|8|14 birth place = South Shields, England death date = death date and age|1946|10|23|1860|8|14 death place = Seton Village, New Mexico, USA… …   Wikipedia

  • Architecture and Civil Engineering — ▪ 2009 Introduction Architecture       For Notable Civil Engineering Projects in work or completed in 2008, see Table (Notable Civil Engineering Projects (in work or completed, 2008)).        Beijing was the centre of the world of architecture… …   Universalium

  • MUSIC — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction written sources of direct and circumstantial evidence the material relics and iconography notated sources oral tradition archives and important collections of jewish music… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Douglas Brinkley — in April 2007 Born December 14, 1960 (1960 12 14) (age 50) Atlanta, Georgia Occupation …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”