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Camping, hiking and the outdoor program.

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• Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, and two of them are choices where the options differ by months. Requirement 5 runs from two weeks of daily feeder records to a whole nesting season of nest box records, and requirement 7 from an afternoon examining fish stomachs to sixty days of running an aquarium. Both sets are printed as neighbouring lines with nothing to mark the difference. The aquarium option also carries a legal check and a counselor conversation that have to happen before the sixty days are up.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Cooking Merit Badge

  Three kitchens (home, camp and trail) each with the same five steps in the same order. The menu comes first every time, and the three menus may not be the same.

  Eagle-Required Merit Badges Eagle Required Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Cycling Merit Badge

  Six requirements, and the sixth is a fork: road biking with a road safety test and 100 miles of riding, or trail biking with a trail safety test and 30, plus a second choice nested inside the road option.

  Eagle-Required Merit Badges Eagle Required Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Camping Merit Badge

  Ten requirements, thirty-six parts, and two places where you choose. Most of it can be done in any order, but four steps depend on another step having happened first, and one of them is twenty nights long.

  Eagle-Required Merit Badges Eagle Required Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Bird Study Merit Badge

  Thirteen requirements. The long one is requirement 5: 20 wild species observed and identified, each in a field notebook, and requirement 7 then asks for five of those same 20 by song alone. Start early. Requirements 8, 9 and 13 are choices, and two routes in 8 need a club or a banding program.

  Elective Merit Badges Animals Conservation Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Canoeing Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and requirement 2 stands in front of eight of them: the swimmer test gates everything except requirement 1, including the dry-land parts about naming canoe components. Requirement 9 is eight manoeuvres multiplied by two seats and two sides.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Climbing Merit Badge

  Thirteen requirements, and three of them add up to eighteen separate turns on a rope: three climbers belayed, three climbs backed up, three rappellers belayed, three rappels backed up, three routes climbed and three rappelled. Twelve of the eighteen need somebody else on the other end of the rope, which is the fact the requirement text never states.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Astronomy Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and nine separate parts of them need a clear night that the badge never mentions. Requirement 6(b) wants four Moon sketches at the same hour within a single one-week period; requirement 8(b) wants ten objects beyond those observed in requirement 4, which makes requirement 4 its prerequisite; and requirement 8 as a whole is agreed with your counselor rather than simply chosen.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements Safety

• Backpacking Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements, of which two are the badge: requirement 10 is three treks of three days and fifteen miles each, and requirement 11 is a five-day thirty-mile trek with a service project on it. That is fourteen days in the field and seventy-five miles carried, arriving tenth on a list that opens with a discussion of blisters.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• First Class Rank

  Thirteen requirements, including a five-part cooking project that must all happen on one planned campout, a rubbish-reduction requirement needing two outings, and the last four weeks of a fitness chain that began at Tenderfoot.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Second Class Rank

  Twelve requirements, two of which are months long: five separate activities with two nights of camping, and four weeks of daily activity that cannot start until Tenderfoot requirement 6c is done.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Tenderfoot Rank

  Eleven requirements, one of which is a thirty-day fitness calendar that Second Class and First Class then continue, and six of which wait on a single campout.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements