National Outdoor Badge for Conservation

What it asks

1. First Class rank, or the Sea Scout Apprentice rank, or Venturing Ranger Award requirements 1 through 6.
2. Five conservation tools: show safe use of five of pick or pickax, shovel or spade, ax, bow saw, cross-cut saw, pry bar, sledge hammer, loppers or shears, fire rake or McLeod, and Pulaski, and discuss using them ethically.
3. Three merit badges:
   • Environmental Science or Sustainability (or both the Venturing Ranger Conservation core and Ecology elective);
   • Soil and Water Conservation;
   • one of Fish and Wildlife Management, Forestry, or "Mammals" as the page puts it (the merit badge is Mammal Study).
4. 25 hours of conservation work under the auspices of Scouting America, including the hours from requirements 1 to 3. Several of the tools overlap with the Paul Bunyan Award.

The six badges

This is one of six National Outdoor Badges: camping, hiking, aquatics, conservation, riding and adventure. Each is a segment that sits around a center emblem, which comes with your first one. Gold and silver devices on a segment recognize work beyond the badge. Awards Central also lists a National Medal for Outdoor Achievement, but scouting.org does not publish its requirements; ask your council.

What this page is

The National Outdoor Badge for Conservation, drawn so the tools and the three merit badges come first, and the 25 hours run underneath them. It is not a copy of the requirements: each step is a short label with a link to the official requirements, which are what actually governs.