Forestry Merit Badge
Forestry
Merit Badge
Scouting America Merit Badge Hub
Scouting America
Merit Badge Hub
Forestry Merit Badge Overview
In working through the Forestry merit badge requirements, Scouts will explore the remarkable complexity of a forest and identify many species of trees and plants and the roles they play in a forest’s life cycle.They will also discover some of the resources forests provide to humans and come to understand that people have a very large part to play in sustaining the health of forests.
Forestry Merit Badge Requirements
The previous version of the Merit Badge requirements can be found in Scoutbook
The requirements will be fed dynamically using the scout book integration 55
1. Prepare a field notebook, make a collection, and identify 15 species of trees, wild shrubs, or vines in a local forested area. Write a description in which you identify and discuss the following:
- (a) The characteristics of leaf, twig, cone, or fruiting bodies
- (b) The habitat in which these trees, shrubs, or vines are found.
- (c) The important ways each tree, shrub, or vine is used by humans or wildlife and whether the species is native or was introduced to the area. If it is not native, explain whether it is considered invasive or potentially invasive.