SAMPLE AGENDA

Sign In at HQ and the health building. Find assigned tent; settle in.
--Choose activity to participate in such as volleyball, fishing (counselor-supervised) or any of the structured activities listed below:

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

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

Campers will break into groups and rotate between the following sessions:

Station A - Introduction to Ecology
Station B - Fire Fighting
Station C - Compass
Station D - Noxious Weeds

Prep for hike

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

Station D

Campers will break into groups and rotate between the following sessions:

Station A - Soils & Range Management
Station B - Healthy Watersheds - Rolling River
Station C - Forest and Fire Ecology @ Mystery Tree
Station D - Wildlife Ecology
Station E - Bugs and Crud

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

Field Trip
--South Gate - Forest Density
--Forest Bugs
--Gilman Tunnels - Geology Presentation
--Lunch at Spanish Queen Picnic Area
--Jemez Canyon Overlook
--Horseshoe Springs Forest Health Project
--Jemez Falls Recreation Site
--Dinner at Jemez Falls Picnic Area
--Evening Program

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

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

ACTIVITY/DESCRIPTION

Streamside

Aquatic Ecology--Students spend the day investigating a stream.  They will learn some aquatic insect taxonomy and learn how to assess riparian health utilizing 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 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 working 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 which could potentially be thinned or burned prescriptively to increase safety of campers and other wild residents of the forest, in the process learning how this work is achieved.  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.

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