SAMPLE AGENDA

Camper Arrival

• Help campers check-in at Dining Hall and direct campers to their tent.
• Assist campers in becoming involved in any of the offered activities. Campers need to be active in something constructive.

• Sign In at the Dining Hall. Find assigned tent; settle in.
• Choose activity to participate in such as those activities listed below:
  • Dry casting
  • Craft projects
  • Hike to Mystery Tree

Lights Out! All campers in assigned tents.
COUNSELORS--bed check

Campers out-of-bed!
--Learn about Kapers and how to do them

Rotating Sessions:

• Ecology
• Fire Fighting
• Map and Compass
• Forestry Tools

Lights Out! All campers in assigned tents.
COUNSELORS--bed check

Rotating Sessions:

• Soils & Range Management
• Healthy Watersheds - Rolling River
• Forest and Fire Ecology @ Mystery Tree
• Wildlife Ecology
• Bugs and Crud

Lights Out! All campers in assigned tents.
COUNSELORS--bed check

Field Trip away from camp in the surrounding Santa Fe National Forest

• Fish Hatchery
• Forestry
• Lunch
• Jemez Falls Recreation Site — Hike, Swim
• Dinner at Jemez Falls Picnic Area

Lights Out! All campers in assigned tents.
COUNSELORS--bed check

Field Activity with lunch break. Each activity group is limited to 10 campers.

Examples of field activities:

• Streamside
  Aquatic Ecology--Students spend the day investigating a stream.  They will learn some aquatic insect taxonomy and learn how to assess riparian health using a lot of neat equipment.  Exploration will include understanding the chemistry of the stream and using both water quality and benthic investigations Students will learn how to classify riparian with the information they gather.
• Life in its many levels
  Terrestrial Ecology & Exploration--How often do we walk by a field and see nothing (or so we think)?  Students will get up close and personal with biodiversity beginning with the smallest aspects of a terrestrial ecosystem and work their way up to the big picture.  Learn what fun it is to seek and find the smallest (micro) to biggest (macro).  Activities will include a scavenger hunt for things in the ecosystem and learning to identify plants and animals
• Forest Management
  Fire is complex as both a destructive force and a rejuvenating force.  Students will enter the world of the Wildland Urban Interface as they explore areas of the camp where trees could be thinned or burned prescriptively to increase the safety of campers and other wild residents of the forest.  They may also visit an active timber management program.
• Trail Blazing
  Do you ever hike in the state and national forests?  Who decides where the trails go? Who puts them in?  What are important considerations both ecologically and recreationally for trail placement and use?  Students will learn not only the considerations for public land use, but also give their input on developing a trail and proper trail etiquette.
• Archeology and Logging
  Learn how an archaeologist surveys and explores on this day at the ruins of an old logging settlement near camp. Hike the route which log trains once used, hear stories from logging days in the early 20th Century, and maybe find some artifacts. There may also be evidence of earlier Native American cultures along the way.

Lights Out! All campers in assigned tents.
COUNSELORS--bed check

Pack gear; clean tents and surrounding area for inspection
Move to Miller Center for transport to HQ parking lot