Minimize Campfire Impacts
The best surface to place a fire pan on.
What is rocks or mineral soil?
Two places waste can go if not disposed of properly.
What are oceans, highways, or in animal's bodies?
You should behave in this way when traveling in campground areas.
What is traveling quietly and/or avoid walking through campsites?
When you spot a cool artifact on a hike, you do this with it after observing it.
What is putting it back where you found it for others to enjoy?
This is a tool you can use to find your way when looking at a map.
What is a compass?
Two alternatives to having a campfire.
What is candle lantern or backpack stove?
These items can decompose in 1-2 years.
What is an orange or banana peel?
Light disrupts the campers by preventing them to see ________.
What are the stars?
Collecting shells from a shoreline can be harmful because it takes away ____________ from species.
What is shelter?
This bird has a beak adapted for eating nectar from a flower.
What is a hummingbird?
The campfire that has the most impact.
What is a fire with no fire ring?
This takes 1,000,000 years to decompose.
What is glass?
A good way to address your fellow camping neighbors with a problem.
What is _________________? (Whatever is deemed acceptable; ex. kindly waiting until the campers are back in the campsite and approaching with calm voice)
This is what you don't take away for fires.
What is _____________ (example: what is live branches)?
Bees are needed for this process.
What is pollination?
The four D's of fire building.
What is down, dead, distant, and dinky.
This takes 100 years to decompose.
What is a plastic 6-pack holder or an aluminum can?
Give four examples of things that disrupt the sounds of nature.
What is _____________, ____________, ______________, _______________?
This is why we do not leave man-made structures, like chairs made out of logs and rocks, at a site once we are done with it.
What is it leaves the campsite with a loss of an organic feelings that brings people connections to nature?
This is a backpacker's tool that you put your food to prevent animals from getting to it.
What is a bear canister?
A minimum impact fire.
What is a mound fire?
This means to be able to be broken down by microorganisms and living things.
What is biodegradable?
This is what you do when a hiker is approaching you uphill when you are going downhill.
What is step aside and allow them to pass?
After you are done camping out in the wilderness, you do this to your site.
What is raking the brush back and scuffing the rocks of ash (other examples can work if appropriate)?
How you react when a bear approaches you.
What is standing still and waving your arms (or making yourself big and noisy)?