Req 7f — Design Your Own Conservation Project

This option gives you freedom, but the words approved by your counselor matter. The project should clearly protect soil, protect water, or improve the way land is managed. The stronger your plan, the easier it will be for your counselor to say yes.

Good custom project ideas might include:

• organizing a streambank stabilization day
• building and installing erosion-control features on a trail
• helping restore a rain garden or bioswale
• mapping and marking storm drains for pollution awareness
• improving drainage and soil cover at camp
• leading a mulch-and-planting project around a bare runoff area

What makes a project easy to approve

• the goal is specific
• the site and permissions are clear
• the benefit to soil or water is obvious
• the work is realistic for your time, tools, and helpers
• you can explain how success will be measured

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