Requirement
6. Leave No Trace and the Outdoor Code: how you already followed them
Required Often forgotten
Two halves: their importance to mammal study, and how you HAVE followed them during field observation, specimen collection and identification. The second half is about requirements 3 and 4, so it has to be read before them.
Notes and warnings
Warning. This asks how you HAVE followed the Leave No Trace Seven Principles and the Outdoor Code during field observation, specimen collection and identification, which is requirement 3, and possibly requirement 4. It is numbered sixth and it is about work you will already have done. Read it before your first outing, because it cannot be answered honestly afterwards by remembering harder.
Where this step comes from
- Mammal Study Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 6 · Asks how you HAVE followed the principles during field observation, specimen collection and identification.