Wildland Fire Management Merit Badge

 Dearest Precious Angels-

Today Joshua, Grace, Faith, and I did the Wildland Fire Management Test Merit Badge with Troop 321B/G.  

Here's the synopsis:

Thomas Crate, Fire Management Officer with NC State Parks (and Troop 321 leader & parent), organized a Wildland Fire Management Test Merit Badge program at Medoc Mountain State Park. While the weather didn't cooperate for the planned prescribed fire demo, Scouts from 321B & 321G were full of questions for the foresters, biologists, rangers, and pilots from the Natural Resources Program with North Carolina State Parks & Recreation, N.C. Forest Service Halifax and Nash Counties, NC Forest Service Aviation, and The Longleaf Alliance.

Highlights included:

 Matchstick Forests demos to explore fire environment factors

 Laying water hose

 Dozers and fire engines

 Drone demo with aerial ignition 

 Helicopter take off

You all had a lot of fun!  I took photos and videos.  We all got to sit in a helicopter!   Oh, and Smokey the Bear isn't the only mascot of the North Carolina Forest Service .... there's Burner Bob the Bobwhite Quail!!  :-)

We were home a little before 5pm. 

Sleep tight little ones!

I love you all so much!

-Mommy