PhilNews May 29th, 2015 Banquet Issue

Lifetime memories Our great occasion To the Philmont Staff, opportunity to full fill a dream Mark Anderson and can execute our tasks Over the years, I have I had and put into writing in Director of Program, and serve our customers with written hundreds of letters. 1995 – riding for the Philmont Unit 2 professionalism. This one is truly very difficult brand. The High Adventure Theodore Roosevelt said, but also a celebration. I now team is absolutely awesome Welcome home! To some “Far and away the best prize that know the true definition of and it has been a privilege to of you who are returning for life offers is the chance to work bittersweet! For more than be their leader. another summer when you see hard at work worth doing.” 37 years I have enjoyed my Janice and I appreciate the Tooth Ridge and catch up with “Delivering wilderness and career with the Boy Scouts of experiences, the kindness, the old friends, you realize that you learning adventures that last America. The opportunities I friendship and the fellowship are home. To those of you that a lifetime” is certainly work have had to interact with some we have shared these past this will be the first time that you worth doing! We will have the of the finest people in America years. On May 31, we will be will call this place home, you are opportunity to do this every day was afforded to me because of retiring to spend more time in for a special adventure. One of the summer provided we are the BSA. The opportunities to with our grandkids and do that will forever change you for prepared for our chance. assist in providing the youth whatever else we can to spend the future. We are excited that all was asked of America lifetime memories time together. George Strait of you will be serving as members many times after he made the gift of outdoor experiences and said it best in his farewell of the 2015 Philmont staff. what he hoped the Boy Scouts Clearly Mr. Phillips set out participate in a program concert, “It’s time for this E. L. Matthews wrote, of America would achieve at a great vision for us to follow. that provides leadership cowboy to ride away.” It has “Unless a person has prepared Philmont. He wrote the following One that is still relevant today. development, character been an awesome ride! themselves for their chance, the in 1941: “These properties During the summer of 2015, I development, and citizenship Thanks to all and have a chance will only make a person are donated and dedicated to encourage you to think about training have made this career safe, Philtastic summer! look ridiculous. A great occasion the Boy Scouts of America for these words and strive to fulfill very rewarding. is worth to a person exactly what encouraging the perpetuation of Mr. Phillips’ dream. We will The past 13 years has Yours in Scouting, their preparation enable that Faith – Self Reliance – Integrity have the opportunity, through been the pinnacle of my John H. Clark, General Manager person to make of it.” – Freedom. Principles used to preparation, hard work, and life. Coming here in 2002 As we work together in build this great country by the determination, to enhance the as the comptroller, and then Department Manager – High training for the summer, I would American Pioneer so that these lives of 22,000 backcountry becoming the general manager Adventure ask that you do everything you future citizens may, through participants, 5,000 Philmont in 2009, provided me the Boy Scouts of America can to prepare yourself for the thoughtful adult guidance and Training Center participants, and great occasion. Training, practice by the inspiration of nature, 1,130 fellow staff members. and evaluation are the steps that visualize and form a code of living Truly our work as members each of us should repeat as often to diligently maintain these high of the Philmont staff is “work as required until we are proficient ideals and our proper destiny.” worth doing.”

Staff Opening Program detailed schedule

5:45 p.m. Flag Ceremony and Ringing of the bell at the Opening Staff Dinner at Camper Dining Hall 6 p.m. Staff banquet at the Camper Dining Hall 7 p.m. Chapel services in the following traditions: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and LDS 8 p.m. Gather at Baldy Pavilion at the SSSAC for “The Place - Our Special Pile of Rocks” 9:15 p.m. Music and fellowship at Baldy Pavilion

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Friday, 29 Saturday, 30 Sunday, 31 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 2 Wednesday, 3 Thursday, 4 Photo Team 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. PTC Dining Hall 1:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 6:00p.m. SSSAC Blood Opens Intro to Leave No Intro to Leave No Living History Base Extravaganza Carson National Drive Trace at Baldy Trace at Baldy Town Hall at Baldy Pavilion Forest Public 5:30 p.m. Pavilion Pavilion (second Gathering at Baldy Meeting at PTC NPS Manager 8:30 a.m. Horse opportunity) Pavilion 11:15 a.m. Buster Brown Aims and department/ 7:30 p.m. Old Mill Tour; Building Bryan Hayek Methods at PTC program counselor Advanced Leave 7 p.m. meet at Welcome Assembly Hall of western lore No Trace at HCC Driver Training Living History Center Assistant NPS camps cookout at at PTC Assembly Skills Day at Ranger Manager/Photography 1:30 p.m. Mark Anderson’s Hall Rayado 7 p.m. Rendezvous at Supervisor All staff gather on house Camp Director’s Beaubien Villa Lawn Campfire at Cassidy Johnson Closing Campfire Area PhilNews Editor Friday, 5 Saturday, 6 Sunday, 7 Monday, 8 Tuesday, 9 Wednesday, 10 Thursday, 11 Patrick McNeill 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Late arriving 9:30 a.m. Scatter Day One Scatter Day Two Scatter Day Three First crews arrive staff training Camp PhilNews Writers (conducted Meetings at Ring Backcountry Kate Johnson 7 p.m. 8:30 a.m. CHQ Staff Dining Monday through Place Driver Training Aims and Hall opens for opens for hiking Wednesdays Caleb Wong at PTC Assembly Methods at PTC supper throughout the Marie Reynolds Hall Assembly Hall summer) Late arriving 8 p.m. Traders opens for staff training Photographers 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Telluride Film season at regular (conducted Erin Irwin Ranger Campfire Staff Snack Bar Festival at HCC hours Monday through Doyle Maurer at Closing Event Wednesdays Campfire area 1st Opening throughout the Josh Galemore Open mic at SSSAC Campfire summer) Tyler Sanders Sean McElligott Justin Gilliland Useful Philmont Acronyms Fire Level Warning Leanora Benkato When one visits Philmont for the first time, it is easy to recognize that the Attention all staff! A few fire restrictions are Photo Lab Lead Ranch has a unique vocabulary. For those visiting or working at the ranch for currently in place across the ranch. Jaime Lopez the first time, it may be a little confusing at first, but fortunately is easy to pick up on. Here is a guide to Philmont’s most commonly used acronyms and lingo. Photo Lab Techs • Open fires and fireworks are prohibited ACD: Assistant Camp Director OATC: Order of the Arrow Trail Neal Simmons ACR: Associate Chief Ranger Crew Trek • Smoking is prohibited except for in designated David Kellogg Baldy: Baldy Pavilion (for events), PJ: Phillips Junction areas Mt. Baldy, or Baldy Camp PhilSAR: Philmont Search and • Crew and staff campfires are permitted in Lead Marketing CD: Camp Director Rescue established fire rings on Philmont property Specialist CHQ: Camping Headquarters PTC: Dominic Baima Cito: Cimmaroncito RO: Ranger Office Cons: Conservation ROCS: Roving Outdoor Thank you for complying with our fire restrictions Marketing Media Staff GIS: Geographical Information Conservation School in order to keep Philmont a safe place. Systems RT: Ranger Trainer Taylor Hill HAB: High Adventure Base SSSAC: Silver Sage Staff Marcos Palacios HCC: Hardesty Casa Central Activities Center We also ask that you keep in mind the importance HOD: Head of Dean Swapbox: A place to trade of conserving water. Be aware of how much water Lead Videographer HOmE: Heaven on Earth unwanted food you use and think of creative ways to conserve it. Kreable Young I-Camp: Intercamp mail TC: Training Crew IW: Indian Writings TOTT: Tooth of Time Traders Videographer NAYLE: National Advanced TP: Trading Post Mitchell Thomas Youth Leadership Experience The Val: the Valle Vidal NPS: News and Photo Services Valle: the Valle Vidal PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, May 29, 2015 PhilNews | 3 Filling up buckets Walking with intention

Steve Nelson Chris Sawyer stories of people who rarely make and helping them work together Comptroller, Unit 3 Associate Director of the news.” to succeed. Working as an educational • Being caught in a thunderstorm It has been so exciting the Program, Unit 4 partner, the Pulitzer Center and watching the weather clear. past several months as I, like Welcome to Philmont! It’s identified Philmont Scout Ranch • Watching the sun sink into the many of you, have followed the going to be an amazing summer as an ideal place to tell Paul’s horizon from a favorite spot. new hire list on Facebook and filled with new people, places, story due to our excellence in • Hiking up Sawmill Canyon watched as the 2015 staff has and programs that will enhance youth development, interpretive or over a snow-covered Baldy been assembled. You each have your lives for many years to come. programming, and extended day Mountain. numerous talents that will be For 77 years, more than a million trekking. Philmont’s physical • Laughing and telling stories Katy Mooney/Photography Manager 2012 put to work to bring about this participants and staff members location alongside the Santa Fe during dinner at a trail camp. great Philmont experience for helping each other to feel good have had the opportunity to Trail is also a unique component • Enjoying moments of all the people who come here about the contributions that we share their Philmont experiences of the partnership. Since 1938 complete solitude and reflection. this summer. Those talents, will make to this great place. through letters, pictures, stories, Philmont has shared the rich • Deeply thinking about how along with your skills and This year I read a great and journals. Much like the news history of commerce and conflict you might make a difference in enthusiasm, are what will make book, How Full Is Your Bucket, cycle of today, the ever changing that unfolded on the heavily the world. this summer the “wilderness that listed some great insight. landscape of the internet has traveled trade route. Similar to • Realizing that you have fully experience that lasts a lifetime” Let me share this list of goals transformed how we share our Paul’s journaling efforts, Susan seized each moment in these New for our participants. tenets of how we can have a experiences and stories. Quick Magoffin slowly documentedMexico mountains. As I watch the staff arrive positive impact on all those we posts, likes, and “trending” her adventures across the In the absence of “trending” with all their enthusiasm it often work with and those who we articles often fill the voids of time plains, through the forts and likes and posts in the backcountry, reminds me of the great task we will serve this summer. Review that were once spent in deep/ into the oldest capital city of the Paul encourages you to slow have ahead of us. I know it will this list often and we will all intentional thought, observance, American southwest in 1846. down and fully embrace your take all of us working together have a positive impact on each and reflection. We continue to share stories of “milestones.” This summer, use other and the operations this While many news outlets people and places along the trail the Passport to Adventure Journal “Together we can summer: follow the “trending” model, and enjoy re-experiencing their to make entries as you navigate • I have helped someone in the there are still thoughtful journeys through the lens of our across the ranch. Your time at work to overcome last 24 hours. organizations that focus on participants. Philmont will be defined in many any challenge that we • I am an exceptionally authentic journalism, impartial As you begin your work and ways that you will discover and courteous person. reporting, and real issues that are time in the Philmont backcountry redefine over the course of the will face. If we try to • I like being around positive being faced by people around the this summer, Paul reminds us of summer, but what you do with do it ourselves, it will people. world today. Their hopes are to how journaling can help each your life is the true discovery that • I have praised someone in the inform/educate the public, create of us be “more observant, more will take discipline and continual be very difficult.” last 24 hours. collaborative action, and be a attentive, and more in the moment” refinement. We hope you’ll use • I have developed a knack for catalyst for change to improve the as we navigate our walks in life. your time this summer as an making other people feel good. quality of life for people/places During his intentional walk, he opportunity to be intentional as a united team to make the • I am more productive when I in need. One of the leading non- is recording “milestones” every about how you spend each day, experience what it should be. am around positive people. profit organizations with that 100 miles where he documents treat each person, and plan your I really like this quote from • In the last 24 hours, I have focus is the Pulitzer Center on his location, a photo/video, and next steps in life. Happy trails! Lyndon Johnson: “There are told someone that I cared about Crisis Reporting. a sound recording of no problems we cannot solve her or him. The Pulitzer Center iswhat he is feeling and together and very few that we • I make it a point to become currently working on a project thinking at the time. can solve by ourselves.” Together acquainted with people wherever with National Geographic Fellow, He has challenged all we can work to overcome any I go. Paul Salopek. In 2013, Paul began of us to stop and record challenge that we will face. If we • When I receive recognition, a seven-year journey walking milestones this summer try to do it ourselves, it will be it makes me want to give around the world in an effort to and says that when a very difficult. recognition to someone else. retrace the migration of our oldest few have been recorded, I am really excited for this • In the last week, I have ancestor’s – from their birthplace “you get to see the world summer and all the tremendous listened to someone talk through in Ethiopia to the Middle East, unfold before you, in a things that will happen for his or her goals and ambitions. Asia, North America, and on stop - motion fashion, our participants and perhaps • I make unhappy people laugh. to the southern tip of South you get to see the small more importantly the changes • I make it a point to call each America. On his Out of Eden changes happening and adventures you will all of my associates by the name she Walk “he is engaging with the before your eyes.” experience this summer. I do or he likes to be called. major stories of our time – from What could some know one important point for • I notice what my colleagues climate change to technological of those milestones all of us to remember: It will do at a level of excellence. innovation, from mass migration look like for you and take each one of us working • I always smile at the people I to cultural survival – by walking how might they unfold together to make all of this come meet. alongside the people who inhabit into something more? true. Working together means • I feel good about giving praise these headlines every day. Moving • Motivating our supporting each other and whenever I see good behavior. at the slow beat of his footsteps, participants to Paul is seeking the quieter, hidden overcome challenges 4 | PhilNews Friday, May 29, 2015 PhilmontScoutRanch.org A group that cares

David O’Neill Springs in 1995, which will about. Something about that Associate Director of have been 20 years ago this Philmont experience builds summer. My how time flies that common bond amongst Program, Unit 5 and how things have changed us all. over that period of time! I Visiting with a camp Though our beautiful can hardly believe it was that director last summer, one ranch has been covered by long ago. Though much has of my questions prompted fog, with a little mist and changed over that time, one a response of the phrase rain, and even patches of that has not, is that Philmont “a group that cares”. The snow in the high country, Spirit. context was describing it has not diminished the I can remember the our group of Backcountry Philmont spirit amongst our friendships that were made Managers last summer, but staff. Every day, more and that summer, then how they could very easily describe the more staff members continue continued into the next, and entire staff at Philmont Scout to arrive as we prepare for even into Ranch. It is another wonderful summer. today. I indeed a care for the untold number first trek and gave you that As that happens, it is fun remember “We care for the group that of adventures that have unforgettable experience. to hear the exclamation of yelling untold number of cares. taken place on the land and And now think about how names and greetings outside names and adventures that We care the memories that they have you can do that and more for my office window, and then bear hugging have taken place for each created. We care for the the thousands of participants to see the many “bear hugs” those long on the land, and other and the people that come through you will see this year. If you as Philmont friends reunite lost friends, the memories that relationships the gates every day, because can do that, then you will for the first time in a year! just as they have created.” that have without them, we would not indeed be a part of a team What an exciting time! the staff been built be here at all. We care! that truly cares for what the This year I have had the members over time. Think about all of the Philmont experience is all opportunity to reflect back were doing outside my We care for the ranch and aspects of your experience about. on my first summer on the window just a few days the land and want to see that you care about. Think Thank you for caring and staff at Philmont. I was as ago. It’s great to reconnect that wilderness experience about the staff member that what you will do for Philmont Program Counselor at Apache with those that we care remain for all to enjoy. We cared about you on your Scout Ranch this summer!

Philmont Activities Department An amazing summer Kicks Off: David Werhane Ponderosa forest, or learn the Museum Director Open Mic & Music Night value of wild land stewardship. th We have other exhibits as well Friday, June 5 I hope you’re all ready for where you can discover about Sponsored by the Philmont Staff Association an amazing summer. Once how the devastating flood again, we have a few new in 1965 changed the face of surprises, opportunities and Philmont, helped to create our Baldy Pavilion improvements here at Philmont Conservation department and including a “new” property so make plans now! It’s a big why the OA Trail Crew has 8pm-10pm along the Cimarron River and place and some of it, like the been so successful for 20 years. some long awaited restoration and Cimarroncita, I encourage you to take down at Rayado. Of course, is still a new experience for in what Philmont and the Sign up for Open Mic in the Dining Hall we still have the old standbys: all of us. Confused about Philmont Museums have to dinosaur tracks; massive elk how, why and what we do on offer. Tour the Villa, explore Bring your talent & practice your campfire herds; the snow covered peaks those neighboring properties the Rayado Settlement, music! of Baldy and Little Costilla; in the Ponil country? Come discover the historic Chase Instruments, singing, solo or group leftover relics from Native to the Museum and “cross Ranch, come to the Museum performances. Americans; sunsets over the fence” into our exhibit, and dive into our history. Rayado canyon; frontiersmen; Partners on the Ponil. I And don’t forget the Seton miners… and best of all - that guarantee it will clear up those Memorial Library! It’s your infectious smile on a camper’s sometimes confusing details. resource - so come in, check Coffee, Hot Chocolate, and other fun snacks! face as he finally makes it to It might even inspire you to out a book and then go enjoy the top of that ridge, spar pole hike the historic Cimarron it in our naturally lit, 139,678 Come listen to all of the musical or campsite. & Northwestern Railway, acre ‘reading room.’ talent at Philmont! The summer will go by fast stroll through a savanna type Buena Suerte! PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, May 29, 2015 PhilNews | 5 The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees Welcome HOmE Philmont staff! Grant Reigelman Andrea Watson as opportunities to grow stronger and Associate Director of Associate Director of PTC Program, Unit 6 Program, Unit 7 for our character to grow deeper. This in an exciting time Greetings from the • Trees grow best at Philmont. Philmont Training Center! in forests, not in It’s thrilling to see all of What an exciting summer isolation. No one the staff we have worked awaits! Since 1950, the Training succeeds at Philmont so diligently to assemble Center has been an important alone. Philmont’s settling into their component of the Philmont greatest strength new roles. Seeing the operation. In fact, Waite Phillips has always been reunions in the dining dreamed that his Philmont ranch the talented and hall and overhearing would be the home of volunteer remarkable staff the greetings of friends training for the Boy Scouts. He who work here, all reunited after nine also wanted the opportunity for committed toward months brings back families to come and experience executing at the fond memories of the Philmont together. He saw the highest level. Each of friendships I have joy that his wife and daughter us is better because we formed in shared had at Philmont and knew work together. When experiences providing that Philmont wasn’t just for a crew finishes their life changing memories the rugged adventurer. Waite trek at Philmont, it’s to participants at commemorated with have a leadership role in the felt strongly that families who In trees and men good Philmont Scout Ranch. a plaque that states, “We all made council’s camping program experienced Philmont together timbers grow. I am a new face to it”. It’s not about the individual; each summer. I spent those would be better for it, just as his Whether it’s in the many at Philmont this summer it’s about the team. summers applying lessons family was. backcountry, at PTC, or and I would like the chance • Trees draw strength from the learned at Philmont to my I hope you’ll take the time to outside of the ranch, I look for you to get to know a little nutrients created by previous local camps. After a successful come and visit PTC. One of my forward to meeting each and bit about me. I joined the full generations of trees. Philmont tenure as a district executive, favorite places is the greensward every one of you. Come have time staff in December of 2014 has 76 years of tradition – years I had the chance to join the behind the Villa Philmonte. fun this summer! Everyone is but my Philmont story goes professional staff here, and I With lush green grass and welcome to come over to PTC back much longer than that. jumped at the chance. Along stately cottonwood trees, this and take part in our evening As a Scout I had the chance to “Philmont’s greatest for the ride is my wife, Roni, spot becomes a little oasis in programs: Monday is cobbler attend a number of programs and our son, Garner. We love the high desert of Philmont. strength has always night at the East and South at the ranch. Two of the most being members of the Philmont The weathered cottonwoods Tent Cities. On Tuesdays, our memorable were OATC and been the talented and family! that span the greensward have buffalo barbecue takes place at hiking on a 12-day trek with My favorite part of withstood eighty years of remarkable staff who 5:30 PM on the Greensward, my father as an advisor. Those this job so far has been getting drought and wind. They have followed by a Western Night programs inspired me to apply work here, all committed to know a new generation watched thousands of children, dance at 7:00 PM in the to work on summer staff so I of Philstaff. I am impressed Scouts and Scouters experience toward executing at the Assembly Hall. Wednesday could play a role in delivering every day by the dedication the magic of Philmont for the evenings, we feature the classic the program that has shaped highest level.” and passion you bring to first time. They have watched Boy Scout movie ‘Follow so many of us. I was fortunate every aspect of your jobs this as people have stared up into Me, Boys’ at 7:00 PM in the to be selected to serve on staff summer. I would like to leave the heavens into the expansive Assembly Hall. Thursdays, for three summers during my of experiences and adventures you all with some thoughts as sky, seeing stars as never before. the one and only ‘Wannabe college years. One summer as that can teach us so many we prepare for the arrival of They have watched as staff Band’ will play on the Dining a program counselor at Apache valuable lessons. The lessons we participants. have played Frisbee in the cool Hall Veranda. Our Opening Springs and two summers learn from the past of Philmont First, have you thought about touch of their shade. And I bet Program is on Sundays and as a camp director at Baldy combined with our own the kind of staff member if we listened, there is a lot we Closing Program is on Fridays. Town and Sawmill. Those contributions this summer will that you want to be this can learn from these wise, old The Craft Center is open and summers spent as a steward direct the future. summer? Take some time to trees… available through the week for of our program were such an In the poem “Good Timber,” consider what you would like staff as well. It has exciting important time in my life to • Trees always grow toward Douglas Malloch wrote: to accomplish by the end of projects including ceramics, learn and grow, while having the light. As Philmont staff, we Good timber does not grow August and write those things leatherwork, mosaics, the opportunity to provide should be positive! Be energetic! with ease: down. By doing that you can be incredible tie-dye and so much world class program in the best Be the light that motivates The stronger wind, the intentional with your actions. more! It’s the perfect place place on earth. others to grow in their Philmont stronger trees; I challenge you all to keep to work on craft projects or Prior to moving to Philmont experience. The further sky, the greater looking for ways to be better at make gifts for your friends and I was working as a district • Trees require opposition to length; what you do. Only then can we family back home. Check out executive in the Conquistador thrive. The Philmont experience The more the storm, the keep innovating and improving the flyers in the SSSAC for a Council located in Southeast is challenging. Each of us more the strength. upon the wilderness adventure full list of the fun PTC has to . I was very will experience obstacles this By sun and cold, by rain and to exceed our customers’ offer each week. fortunate during that time to summer. Let’s see these challenges snow, expectations. See you on the Trail! 6 | PhilNews Friday, May 29, 2015 PhilmontScoutRanch.org

The Carson National Forest invites you to Meet the chaplains Think Like a District Ranger at a Forest Plan Revision Elder Paul Anderson LDS Chaplain Community Meeting

2015 is going to be a banner Be prepared to discuss year. I have been asked by Management Ideas the Church of Jesus Christ of Philmont Training Center for the following key Latter-day Saints to serve as the findings that LDS Chaplain at Philmont this affect the way you use summer. I am very excited to Buster Brown Conference Room, the get to know and serve the Staff Carson National Forest:

and Scouts. 17 Deer Run Road A little about me: I am 1. Aspen a retired Laboratory Quality 2. Climate Assurance Coordinator and Thursday, June 4 3. Fire Adapted Ecosystems have worked with nine hospital youth. 4. Forest Infrastructure laboratories by helping them My wife Mary and I live in 6:00 – 8:00 PM 5. Grass Cover maintain quality, accuracy and Orem, Utah. We have two Eagle 6. Hunting/Fishing/Wildlife regulatory compliance. I am Scout sons and one daughter. Viewing a First Class Scout and have We have three grandsons who 7. Ranching earned both the youth and adult have all been to Philmont. What is the Assessment and why does it matter? 8. Recreation religious awards (LDS). I have My goal for the summer  Our current Forest Plan is 29 years old and does not adequately provide a “vision” of 9. Social Economics served for 45 years in scouting is to always have a smile and the future to manage for sustainable forest ecosystems and best provide for the 10. Riparain/ Aquatic Habitat needs of today’s forest user. on the unit, district, council, a word of encouragement for 11. Soils area, region and national level. those I meet.  The forest is analyzing resource areas to assess current condition and trend based on current plan direction to determine which are not in a sustainable condition. 12. Water Although this is my first Always leave them with  The results (key findings) highlight those resource areas most at risk of not being 13. Woody Species year at CHQ, my wife and I a smile on their face. Maybe sustainable under current plan management direction. Encroachment have worked at PTC for the last it will be infectious and all of 20 years. We have a great love Philmont will have a smile and What is this Important? for Philmont and its service to look out for each other.  Resources that are unsustainable will not provide that same benefits for Forest Users that they do today.

Pastor John Lampley What is the purpose of these meetings? Protestant Chaplain  The Forest will present the key findings (resource areas at risk) identified by the assessment and the preliminary change to plan management directions needed to I am so pleased to be returning address these risks. to Philmont for my third summer  We want your input on the best way to address the risks to sustainability as one of the protestant chaplains.  The public will have the opportunity to provide new or alternative plan It is so energizing to drive into management solutions. base camp and begin seeing so many friends from the past two If you need assistance with verbal translations or accessibility For more information or to provide input: seasons. I am looking forward to please contact us beforehand so that we can plan www.fs.usda.gov/goto/carsonforestplan the opportunity to meet hundreds accordingly. (575) 758-6221 • [email protected] • 208 Cruz Alta, Taos, NM more staff and participants in the coming weeks. To those who I don’t know yet, I have been married to my wife professional high-performance Chapel services begin Friday, Claudia for 30 years and have three and off-road driving instructor. grown children. Both my sons are I have been working on restoring Eagle Scouts, and participated on a Formula Vee sports car and am the OATC in 2012. They have close to the point of getting it on May 29 at 7 p.m. both served on staff, and one is a the track. program counselor at Pueblano But what is probably most this summer. rewarding to me, is the time I In my free time, I enjoy spend in scouting - either on They will continue each night at Camping hiking, backpacking and skiing. the trail or as a chaplain. I look I have a real passion for motors forward to a busy and exciting Headquarters until August 20 with the following ports and have raced numerous summer of 2015. I hope to see classes in Sports Car Club of you somewhere around the ranch services offered: Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and America competitions. I have and hear about what is going on in also been privileged to work as a your life! Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ever Upward. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, May 29, 2015 PhilNews | 7 Chip at Philmont by Jim Stocks Dr. Jim Stocks and his friend Chip explored Philmont and the surrounding area during their time at Philmont. Thank you to Dr. Stocks for submitting these photos. If you have any photos, poems, stories or art that you want to submit please stop by the News and Photo Services office or I-Camp “Patrick McNeill at NPS.”

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Kreable Young/Philnews Cassidy Johnson/Philnews Mitchell Thomas/Philnews Horses graze in the horse pasture next to the staff Ponil program counselor Ephraim Moore sets up tents Cross of the Protestant Chapel, Sunday, May 24, 2015. parking lot on Sunday, May 24, 2015. at Philmont Training Center on Friday, May 22, 2015.

Cassidy Johnson/Philnews Dominic Baima/Philnews Members of Philmont leadership demonstrate how electric current travels on Staff members participate in their final simulation during the Wilderness First Saturday, May 23, 2015 at the PTC Assembly Hall. The device, created by the Responder course on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at the Philmont Training Center Philmont utilities department, helped teach the reason for lightning procedures. Archery Range.

Kreable Young/Philnews ABOVE: Staff members play frisbee while waiting for lunch outside of the Camper Dining Hall on Sunday, May 24, 2015. Cassidy Johnson/Philnews LEFT: Kit Carson camp director Zach Brand extinguishes a fire during camp director training at Philmont Training Center on Friday, May 22, 2015.