Thank you to all who attended today’s trip into Boston to tour the Coast Guard Base! The Trip was a great success! The highlights include: -A Presentation on the USCG; it’s mission and capabilities -A guided tour of the Base Command Center and Communications Center -A guided, in-depth tour of the 270′ Cutter Spencer –A …
Nine scouts and a mom cleared two acres of dense Garlic Mustard growth Saturday, around the parking lot where Twin Ponds Trail ends at Route 117—where the Sugar Shack used to be. They crammed their kill into 20 lawn bags which will be picked up by the Conservation Department truck Sunday or Monday. The scouts …
Scouts rallied to help Matt prep a hundred death-to-tick tubes this Saturday by soaking cotton-balls in a solution of the insecticide Pyrethrin, then stuffing them into donated toilet-paper tubes. When these scouts distribute the tubes in the woods and fields, tick-laden mice will gather the cotton-balls as a nesting material, and the Pyrethrin will kill the …
A busy week: skiing, CPR instruction, meeting-mayhem, and Matt’s tick-show. See Activities/Galleries…
Sixteen intrepid scouts along with six somewhat more cautious adults spent the St. Patrick’s day weekend in Gorham NH, specifically Pinkham Notch, the sylvan surroundings of Wildcat Mountain and the bucolic Joe Dodge Lodge (JDL). After arriving in Gorham, we were treated to a splendid repast of pasta and various fixin’s where we all ate …