The National Council Boy Scouts of America has made available another great supplemental training module: Leave No Trace: Preserving the Beauty and Maintaining Our Access to the Land

If you haven’t checked out the supplemental training modules section of the National Council’s website you are missing some great opportunities:

Disc Golf in Support of Scouting

Mentoring

Chain Saw Safety

Merit Badge Counselor Instructors Guide

Board of Review Training

Geocaching to Promote Scouting

The Order of the Arrow and Your Troop

Orientation for New Boy Scout Parents

Planning and Conducting a Safe Scout Outing

Recruiting Quality Training Staff

Scoutmaster Conference Training

Varsity Leader Fast Start

Selecting Quality Leaders

The Youth Leadership Training Continuum

Bullying: Prevention and Intervention Tips for Scout Leaders and Parents

Conducting an Interfaith Service

Cub Scout Commissioner Roundtable Fast Start

The new Leave No Trace module is everything you need to be able to teach the basics of Leave No Trace.

Training Summary
Participants will identify personal nature awareness and stewardship goals. Advanced skills, but simple ones, will be learned to ensure a minimum-impact (Leave No Trace) experience on all outdoor experiences.

Time Required
60 minutes

Target Audience
Training is effective for adults and youth within all families of the Boy Scouts of America: Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Varsity Scout teams, Venturing crews, and Explorer posts.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Training Format
Training will be a lecture format with an individual goal-setting period at the end of the session. It is suggested that training take place in an outdoor setting, even if it is only on the lawn where you normally meet for training.

When possible, use photos and articles that illustrate high impact on local areas. The addition of local resources will create meaningful teaching moments that make the training real, relevant, and personal to participants.

Required Materials
Each section includes a list of training props. These can be actual items or photos of the item from magazines, the Internet, etc. It is not necessary to have all of the items. The training will be more effective with props and/or photos but will still be successful without them.

See the entire supplemental training module :
http://scouting.org/BoyScouts/TrainingModules/LeaveNoTrace.aspx

Please note the link to download the module in pdf is incorrect on the National Council’s website. Until it is fixed, this is the correct link to the Leave No Trace PDF module:
http://scouting.org/filestore/pdf/LeaveNoTrace.pdf