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Corey Deitz
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Say what you want about the Boy Scout program but it’s still one
of the finest ways to learn first hand about your environment and some of
the real-life things you can do to help protect it.
When I was a Boy Scout, we earned merit badges on our way
toward attaining Eagle rank by participating in mini-courses that offered
genuine, hands-on, environmental activities like “Fish and Wildlife
Management” and “Soil and Water Conservation”.
As a matter of fact, during the summer of 2008, the Boy Scouts of
America, through the organization’s Order of the Arrow honor society,
completed the largest conservation project ever conceived by the BSA.
The “ArrowCorp5” project involving about 5,000 scouts addressed
ecosystem restoration, invasive plant and tree removal, trail construction,
campsite improvements, erosion control in five national forests.
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The Scouts estimated the amount of work added up to 250,000
hours of service. How many “Be a Greenie” bumper stickers would you
have to stick on your Toyota Prius to equal that kind of impact?
Yet, for all the Boy Scouts of America have done for the U.S. and
its natural resources since the founding in 1910, the program has often
been hounded by unfair chides, characterizations, and innuendo. They are
trail trash in the eyes of some critics.
To begin with, liberals hate the uniforms which shouldn’t be a
surprise since the far-left often isn’t a real big fan of the military or
anything that emulates it. Hang a uniform on all those young bodies and
I’m sure in some minds you no doubt have the beginnings of another
Hitler youth movement. To make it worse, each Boy Scout “troop” is
divided into “patrols”. (Jesus: what next? Bazookas in the mess kits?)
Far-left liberals also detest the Scout Oath:
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