T-399 Hornaday Unit Award Opportunity

Troop 399 has an opportunity in October to earn the Hornaday Award, Scouting's highest conservation honor, for the troop. This award is in addition to the individual awards earned by several scouts in our troop.
Only one unit award was given in Texas last year.

At the PLC meeting on Tuesday the Troop 399 Scout Leadership Team decided this was an opportunity they did not want to miss. Various Eagle Scout aspirants will be making presentations to Troop 399 over the next few weeks to discuss the details of the awards. In a nutshell it is as follows:

To earn the unit award, at least 60 percent of the registered unit members in Troop 399 must participate (52 scouts). The project is the City of Austin's National Wildlife Habitat Challenge, which ends October 31. Troop
399 has three scouts leading conservation service projects in October under the Challenge. This will allow us to meet the Hornaday Unit requirements, if we can recruit a total of 52 scouts to work on at least one of them:

1) Saturday-Sunday, October 11-12- National Wildlife Habitat Challenge - recruiting Tarrytown residents to certify their yards as wildlife habitats
2) Saturday or Sunday, October 18 or 19 - clearing non-native invasive species from the back of Congregation Beth Israel's property at 38th and Shoal Creek
3) Saturday, October 25 - clearing non-native invasive species from the Casis Forest

Let me know if the troop would like to commit to this effort - it would be a terrific honor for the troop, and additional recognition of your involvement with the Hornaday program.

Don B. Mauro
dmauro21@gmail.com
512/657-0195

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The values we strive to install are based on those found in the Scout Oath and Law."