Leave No Trace Prep
This ensures low-risk adventures, appropriate campsites, minimal waste, and fun camping or hiking experiences.
What is planning ahead?
What is Leave No Trace?
The second line of the Outdoor Code.
What is "Be clean in my outdoor manners?"
If you are able, this should be your first response to an emergency situation.
What is calling 911?
This is when you should feed wildlife or leave food where they can reach it.
What is never?
This is how you avoid damage to land, wildlife, and soil erosion.
What is travelling and camping on durable surfaces?
This is when it is appropriate to remove rocks, plants, animals, and archeological artifacts from their original location.
What is never?
The first line of the Outdoor Code.
What is "As an American, I will do my best to?"
This is the method for creating a makeshift stretcher.
What is wrapping a strong blanket or tarp around two large sticks?
When an animal alters its activity while you are observing it.
When are you too close to wildlife?
In high-use areas, where vegetation is already absent.
Where should you concentrate activity?
The distance that wastewater and human waste should be from natural water sources.
What is 200 feet?
The fourth line of the Outdoor Code.
What is "Be considerate in the outdoors?"
Double Jeopardy!
The founder of Scouting in the United States.
During animals' breeding, nesting, and birthing seasons.
When should you be extra careful of wildlife?
In low-use areas, in order to minimize impact.
Where should you spread out?
By using lightweight camping stoves, using existing fire rings, and avoiding fires in areas with limited wood.
How can you minimize campfire impacts?
The fifth line of the Outdoor Code.
What is "Be conservation minded?"
This is when you should use a tourniquet.
What is only as a last resort on heavy, uncontrolled bleeding.
This is what you are not allowed to keep in your tent.
What is food or other smelly items?
This is a method of disposing waste properly.
What is "Pack It In, Pack It Out?"
These are examples of inappropriate site alterations.
What are tent trenches, lean-tos, tables, chairs, hammering nails into trees, hacking at trees, and multiple fire rings? (Other examples can be accepted, but at least two must be named)
The third line of the Outdoor Code.
What is "Be careful with fire?"
A term that refers to prevention, assessment, and treatment for an ill or injured person in a remote environment.
What is wilderness first aid?
The two venomous snakes found in Maryland.
What are the Timber Rattlesnake and the Eastern Copperhead?