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PhilNewsA Day of New Ranger Rendezvous Combines Arrivals and Old Training and Testing with Fun By Matthew Baide & Garett Franklyn Remembrances Staff Writers By Garett Franklyn A Frisbee cut through the learning things like proper bear and shortcomings. Reviews for open skies, soaring high above the procedure, leave no trace ethics, it among the Rangers, however, Staff Writer many red shirts bustling around and search and rescue practices. were mixed. Beaubien’s meadow during In many ways, the day’s exercises “The backpack was not Monday’s Ranger training. It was reflected the very training they designed for a five-day hike,” said a time of joy and play, the time of will later teach to their crews. Kyle Knoll, a Service Academy exhilaration that followed a long “It’s extremely important,” Ranger who also found the and arduous hike. Weis said. “You use repetition to backpack’s buckles wanting. That Called Ranger notwithstanding, Rendezvous, others had a more Monday saw groups positive opinion of of Rangers with the pack. different itineraries “I thought it was meet at Beaubien great,” said Christine for a capstone day Salsberry, Chief of training after Ranger. “It fit well tramping for several throughout Base days through the Camp…[and] it was The first crew for the 2012 season arrives on Thursday, June 8. backcountry. The sufficient for my MATTHEW PROKOSCH/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER Rangers spent needs.” much of their The atmosphere time unwinding Rangers recite the Ranger song while playing a team- was one of cheer and A bus lopes on to the dirt road mouths broad with cheer. But building game at Ranger Rendezvous. The rendezvous before the Welcome Center on a uniformly their eyes betray the after hiking andis the final step before Ranger Certification. DAVID excitement as groups sandy Thursday afternoon, panting exhaustion within of a 10-hour learning many of the SPITZNAGEL/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER of Rangers competed to a stop with a capitulating snort drive. procedures that they against one another of gas and vapor. Her flanks are “Mostly, I’m very tired right will eventually pass on to their drill it into them. by trying to outscore the other caked with the grit of a long drive; now,” admitted Ethan Lang, 15, a crews. Monday wasn’t only for during each event. For one the Red Carpet Charter on her side Life Scout in Troop 434, which is “The most important reason training either. Some of the new staff member and Ranger, barely legible through the muck. one of the first regular-trek crews is the ‘why’,” said Rayado Trek Rangers were equipped with Mitchell Byrd, the training was Within, she carries the first batch to arrive at the Ranch. He and his Coordinator Steve Weis, a five new 45 and 50-liter Jansport an opportunity that placed him of arrivals. crew rode the Red Carpet Charter season staffer. “The reasons why backpacks and were testing in the shoes of the participants She opens in a hoarse gasp of bus from Oklahoma. they are teaching what they are.” them for the company. Around he will soon be leading. air, allowing a throng of Scouts to Nonetheless, that tiredness To better be able to retain 20 Rangers field tested the “It’s a lot easier to teach when escape through her doors. Their could do little to temper the and teach these procedures, each new pack, named Klamath, you’ve been there yourself,” the faces are mixed: Some are gaunt, excitement Lang felt for arriving at Ranger group went round-robin and provided feedback to the 18-year-old said, reclining back lips tightened with resolve, while Continued on page 5, New from one training area to another, company about its advantages Continued on page 4, others beam with energy, their Arrivals Rendezvous Friday 6/15 Saturday 6/16 Sunday 6/17 Monday 6/18 Tuesday 6/19 Wednesday 6/20 Thursday 6/21 Friday 6/22 Highs Hi 87–Lo 48 Hi 80–Lo 49 Hi 86–Lo 49 Hi 84–Lo 48 Hi 87–Lo 52 Hi 82–Lo 49 Hi 82–Lo 49 Hi 83–Lo 49 Forecast 2 | PhilNews ACTIVITIES PhilmontScoutRanch.org

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Photo Lab Techs In Issue One of PhilNews in the article titled, “Sustainability Team Calls for Staff and Campers to Go Green,” it Zack Sherrard was stated “Last year Philmont sent several semi-trailer loads to recycling. Each trailer is able to carry 127 yards2 Alexander Jokerst of waste. This year Sustainability hopes to increase that volume.” The statement should read “The Sustainability Coordinator started the trail meal bag recycling program last summer and saw great success. We diverted Marketing Manager 250,000 bags from the landfil. Of our estimated 300,000 trail meal bags served we collected nearly 83%. This program will continue with hopes increasing the collected amount. Please deposit your bags at the Services Greg Dunbar check-in window or backcountry camp and encourage all participants to fully participate.”

Marketing Staff In a photo shown on the Photo Feature Page, one photo was caption “David Ayliff, Program Counselor at Abreu.” Vincent Haines The caption should read “David Ayliff, Camp Director at Abreu.”

Lead Videographer Sean Barber

Videographer Nick Pittman PhilmontScoutRanch.org 3 | PhilNews 4 | PhilNews MARK’S MINUTE PhilmontScoutRanch.org Continued Mark’s Minute: from page 1, Excellence... Rendevous in one of Beaubein’s two rocking logs. Habit Byrd, who has been on two treks prior to working at Philmont, originally wanted By Mark Anderson to join his troop, which will be Director of Program arriving later during the summer. Aristotle once wrote to improve in order to achieve However, he was too old to go “Excellence is an art won by the dreams and goals that we set with them, so he decided to work training and habituation. We do during our training? Do we have at Philmont as a Ranger, hoping not act rightly because we have the confidence that we need to we to be assigned to his brother’s virtue or excellence, but we rather deliver the promise? crew. have those because we have acted I hope that you and your team “With any luck, it will be my rightly. We are what we repeatedly are meeting at the end of the day brother’s crew,” he said. “I was too do. Excellence, then, is not an act in a brief huddle to share and old to go with them, so I figured but a habit.” evaluate your delivery. This honest I’d work out here instead.” Our training has given communication can identify those The day eventually drew to a way to delivering our promise things that need additional practice close, ending with the energy that of excellence each day to all in order to become a habit. buzzed through the staff during participants and guests. We are We are what we repeatedly do. training as they slung their now “delivering wilderness and I hope that you and your team learning adventures that last a will work together to understand backpacks over their shoulders. lifetime.” when your delivery becomes a The clear sky had darkened, How strong are our habits? habit not an act. foreboding clouds of a coming Do we still need to practice At that point you will achieve rain, and the laughs and shouts more? What ways do we need excellence. SAMANTHA WAIDLER/ PHILNEWS PHOTO MANAGER 2011 of the morning were replaced by the anticpation of a coming hike. The Frisbee disappeared. Training ended, and hiking began.

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Thank you for your cooperation! PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org NEW ARRIVALS CONTINUED 5 | PhilNews Continued Continued from page 1, New Arrivals from page 1, Northern Tier trek, shares similar emotions. more than hiking. and Seabase Savitski endured a 19-hour train “For me, it’s turned into a Rendevous and hopes his ride from Plano, Ill. and snaking home away from home in a way,” experiences will across the Midwest before ending he said. help him here at in Raton. Not only for Barber, but for Philmont. “[It’s] a once in a lifetime others, too. Gordon McKinnie, “[There opportunity,” Savitski said. “You’ll Base Camp Manager, first came is] a little bit of never see anything like this again— to Philmont in 1963, excitement and unless you come again.” remembering how his father nervousness, but Which is easy, if the tradition greeted him with the news they’d not too much of the Arrowhead Rock is true. be going to New Mexico to hike. nervousness,” As lore has it, if you look back “I remember him coming in Lang, an Eagle at the Arrowhead Rock while and saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to Scout, said. leaving Philmont, you are bound Philmont,’” McKinnie, 63, said, a “I survived to someday return. Little surprise chuckle parting his lips. “And Northern Tier, then that some participants would I said, ‘Okay.’” so I should be eventually find their way back to Moreover, the total trip fi n e .” Philmont as staff to quench a thirst preparation for his ’63 trek was A f t e r for the land they had come to love simple: A cowboy hat. A far cry Childers steps as a youth hiking through the from many of today’s participants, off the trail he backcountry. who arrived at the Ranch on Expedition 608 V4 is the first traditional crew to arrive at Philmont on Thursday, will be eligible Sean Barber, the 22-year-old Thursday prepared to tackle the June 7. MATTHEW PROKOSCH/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER for the coveted Lead Videographer at Philmont, mountains of Philmont with Philmont. Lang, who also trekked was not without excitement, Triple Crown went on two treks and returned backpacks bursting tight with through Northern Tier, heard according to Lang. patch. Awarded only to people later as a staff member for three equipment. about Philmont from other troop Deep within the outskirts of who have successfully completed years. His reasons for coming to “I learned some lessons the members. northern New Mexico, no more each of the High Adventure trips, the Ranch for the first time are first time,” he said. “I learned I “I heard great stories from than 30 minutes from Philmont, it is a symbol representing the hard similar to today’s participants. could do hard things. It was the my Assistant Scoutmaster [about Lang and his troop were pulled work and dedication necessary to “I heard of all the opportunities first time in my life where it wasn’t the] amazing experience we’ve had over by a police officer. Though complete treks across the rugged and the beautiful landscape,” all about me.” being out here,” he continued, as the exact reason why is unknown mountains of New Mexico, Barber said. With any luck, Thursday’s one of his fellow Scouts wrangled to Lang, the incident was enough the boundary waters between When given an opportunity to participants will learn similar himself beneath a backpack during to shake him. Fortunately, the bus Minnesota and Ontario, and the return to Philmont a second time, lessons when they leave the trail. the bus’s unloading. was allowed to continue, eventually sprawling oceans of the Florida Barber didn’t shy away from the Andas they leave Philmont, their Lang’s journey to Philmont arriving to the Ranch at 2:30 p.m. Keys. chance. Much of the land was still bus wheezing through a road began at 4 am, when the bus was Lang was joined by one of his Childers’ excitement is hardly unexplored for him, so returning entombed in dust, they may look a little less marred from the rigors childhood friends, Zack Childers. uncommon. Marshall Savitski, provided him with another chance over their shoulder at Arrowhead of the road. However, their romp The 18-year-old, who hails from who arrived an hour sooner for to visit new areas. After the second Rock and perhaps one day return. from Oklahoma to New Mexico Ducant, Okla., also participated in an Order of the Arrow Trail Crew trek, however, the land grew to be 6 | PhilNews BASE CAMP PhilmontScoutRanch.org Experience the Power of Music Photographer Class at

By Beverly Ponterio Baldy Pavilion Staff Writer Music lessons began June 12 By Matthew Baide at 8 p.m. in the Walcutt room and Staff Writer the next lesson will be June 19. Photographer Jerry America. Nokosee Fields teaches the upright Poppenhouse will be lecturing at Articles about his work have bass, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle the Baldy Pavillion, June 16th at been featured in Communicaitons and says anyone is welcome to join 8 p.m. His lecture will be “How to Arts, Oklahoma Today, America regardless of skill level. See the World as a Photographer.” Cinematographer, Photomethods, If you lack an instrument, Poppenhouse received his Bartlesville and Hasselblad Forum come out anyway and Fields will Bachelor of Fine Arts from the magazines. He has exhibits in try to find a way to make it work. Kansas City Art Institute. He many museums and galleries in Fields has been playing violin was the Director of Publications Oklahoma. for 12 years and is transferring to for Oklahoma State University Poppenhouse will also e East Tennessee University to study Institute of Technology in hosting a photography workshop bluegrass fiddle. He said he loves Okmulgee for two years, then in the Express UU-Bar Ranch Philmont staff members play traditional bluegrass songs during a taught photography and graphic in Cimarron, New Mexico, June bluegrass because it is so inclusive jam at the SSSAC on Monday, May 28. KATY MOONEY/PHILNEWS and social. PHOTOGRAPHER design until retiring in 2005. 16 and 17. Other photographers He was project director, a included are Kelly Kerr, Nathan Music for Fields is more than for its potential healing powers. the power music holds. On April photographer and photo editor Harmon and Clay Allen. just a good tune. “Musicophilia” by Oliver Sacks 25, 2006 the Beaconsfield Mine for the book, Philmont “Where “It’s meditative…you can take details specific occurrences when of Tasmania, Australia collapsed Spirits Soar” for the Boy Scouts of time for yourself for something music has literally healed people. trapping two miners for 14 days. more mind and body,” said Fields. One of the stories relates to Rescuers were able to reach the He says it is communicative in those suffering aphasia, usually due miners, but it was unsafe to remove a way that nothing else can be, and to stroke, blunt trauma or brain them. For exactly two weeks the “it’s good for the soul.” tumors. Aphasia robs victims of the miners were trapped, and at one Moreover, anyone who has ability to communicate verbally. point they requested that MP3 been around for the musical A specific type of music therapy players be sent down with Foo rehearsals of the backcountry harkens to these individuals. First, Fighters on it to keep their spirits bluegrass groups and those groups they learn musical instruments. up and keep them alive longer. The randomly forming has probably Then they learn to sing and find Foo Fighters wrote the song “The experienced the soul moving they can form the words if they Ballad of The Beaconsfield” shortly experience. correlate to music. In the final after in honor of the mine collapse. For centuries, music has been stage, the therapists progressively Music holds power in healing, a human obsession. “It’s such an remove instruments from the song but it is also transformative. As age old tradition for humans… and have the patients sing on their culture has progressed, so has being a part of that connects you own. After some time of singing a music and the instruments that in something exclusively human,” capella, they are able to form the make it. Fields said. words with no music at all. Instruments changed much Music is so powerful among This is not the onlyContinued on page 10, New Music the human race that we study it commanding demonstration of

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Get it to go! Call 575- 376-2457 617 South Collision Ave. Cimarron, NM 87714 PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org BASE CAMP 7 | PhilNews Photographer Class at Philmont Baldy Pavilion Museum Exhibits By Katie Sill America. Staff Writer Articles about his work have The Philmont Museum The exhibit features authentic been featured in Communicaitons currently features three main Native American garments from Arts, Oklahoma Today, America exhibits. Two of the three exhibits the Seton’s personal collection. Cinematographer, Photomethods, focus on E. T. Seton while the third The “Indian Costume Bartlesville and Hasselblad Forumillustrates the history of Philmont Book” was designed to educate magazines. He has exhibits in Scout Ranch. the American public on Native many museums and galleries in Museum Director David American culture. It also provides Oklahoma. Werhane said many of the items instructions on how to recreate the Poppenhouse will also e have not been on display since they clothes from different tribes. hosting a photography workshop were donated to the Boy Scouts As the exhibit explains in the Express UU-Bar Ranch of America (BSA) in 1965. The “[Julia’s] intention was to create a in Cimarron, New Mexico, June exhibits offer a thematic glimpse of craft book for those who wanted 16 and 17. Other photographersthe collection’s highlights. to more accurately portray Native The E.T. Seton and The Indian Costume Book Exhibit at the Philmont Museum opened April 24 and included are Kelly Kerr, Nathan When visitors enter the American culture in pageantry, will be closing in January. It features clothing and craft artifacts collected and created by Seton as Harmon and Clay Allen. museum, they are encouraged to dance and theatre.” well as illustrations for The Indian Costume Book written by Julia Seton. LYNN DECAPO/PHILNEWS start in the room to the right of the At the time of publication, PHOTOGRAPHER gift shop. From there they make a only 500 copies were produced; a brief history of Philmont Scout “My favorite part of this Museum houses over 5,000 counter-clockwise circuit as they of those 500 copies, 100 books Ranch. Making a clockwise exhibit is the graphs,” said Patrick pieces of E. T. Seton’s personal progress through the museum. had hand-colored illustrations. progression around the room, McCarty, museum shop clerk. artwork. Due to space restrictions, The first exhibit visitors see The Philmont Museum has two of visitors can follow the development “They show the enormous leap in however, the museum cannot is entitled: E. T. Seton and the these rare books on display. One of the Ranch. Visitors can read participation from when Philmont display all of Seton’s pieces. Indian Costume Book. The exhibit is behind glass for protection and the actual correspondence opened till today.” The exhibit begins in the east focuses on the “Indian Costume another is available for visitors to between Waite Phillips and the The third and final exhibit hallway and continues into the Book” written by Seton’s wife Julia look through. BSA negotiating the donation of focuses on E.T. Seton as an author Seton Memorial Library. In the and illustrated by Seton himself. The second exhibit features Philmont. and illustrator. The Philmont Continued on page 10, Exhibits Tooth of Time Trader Award

By Matthew Baide Staff Writer It was 7 a.m. on June 8 and industry and youth involvement. time for the first meeting before TOTT prides itself on being the Tooth of Time Traders (TOTT) different and unique from other opened. outdoor retailers. Opening at 7:30, Aaron “We are balancing that Loncki was prepared to motivate souvenir trading post thing at a the staff. standard Boy Scout camp and we “I played some Remember the are balancing the outdoor retailer Titans in the background, and we like REI, so it’s in the middle,” gave them a pep talk like a football Loncki said. “We don’t want to be team, went out there and got them either one, we want to be our own, fired up” Loncki said. so it’s real easy to blow them out of Motivation is what earned the water but we have to make sure awards for the TOTT the last two we do it every time.” years. In 2011, they won the award Randa Celley was hired as for Outdoor Retailer of the Year full-time staff to focus on the for Growth of Outdoor Sports. merchandise in the front of the In 2012, the store won Outdoor store. Both she and store manager Retailer of the Year for Youth Shelley O’Neill have been working Involvement. on streamlining the product mix The youth involvement award and merchandising the store. has created a lot of buzz around This summer the staff is ready the industry, with Store Manager for another award winning season. Shelley O’Neill being offered Getting ready for crews is Sean Branneller, left, inspects a stuff sack for his sleeping bas as A.J. Shippe assists him on Saturday, numerous opportunities to share Continued on page 15, Award June 9 at Tooth of Time Traders. ERIN NASH/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER her knowledge about the retail 8 | PhilNews BACKCOUNTRY PhilmontScoutRanch.org Scatter to the Country By Katie Sill Staff Writer PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

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After days of long training Merchandise Warehouse. Here The roads to the backcountry, sessions, Scatter is the first sign that staff members retrieved tools, tents, though dry, remained ever the season is getting underway. foamies, and housekeeping items. treacherous. The combination of Over the course of three During the summer, backcountry loose dirt, blind turns, and large days all 34 backcountry camps staff members are expected to rocks made the trip seem more were dispersed to their respective maintain the appearance and like a rollercoaster than a car ride. campsites. cleanliness of their campsites. Carly Ficke, staff member The process began at the Staff members also have to from Cypher’s Mine said riding Welcome Center Pavilion. cook for themselves during the with Backcountry Distribution Everyone loaded their personal summer. Across the street from and Supply Manager Gene Schnell gear into Philburbans and trucks. the Merchandise Warehouse is the was an adventure. On average, each camp had three Commissary Warehouse where all “The ride gave us a little vehicles to pack their supplies into. the food for backcountry staff is whiplash, but we’re all good,” said The excitement among staff stored. Staff members were given Ficke, laughing. members was clear. one week’s worth of food to take The excitement piqued upon From the Welcome Center, with them for Scatter. arrival to the campsite. Everyone each camp’s vehicles caravanned By the time everything was had a smile on their face. Before across basecamp to retrieve the loaded, there was barely enough the staff could move in to their remaining supplies. The vehicles room for the actual staff members. new summer homes, however, the for every camp stayed together Packs pressed against the back buildings had to be de-hantad. throughout the process. windows of the Philburbans. The This Philmont lingo is derived At the Backcountry threat of an avalanche was very from from the hantavirus, a Warehouse, the staff received real for anyone who dared open disease spread by rodents. their program materials. Each the trunk. Foamies were piled so De-hanta is the process of camp’s supplies was meticulously high in the back of trucks they had ridding the buildings of rodent sorted and labeled for easy access. to be tied down. With each vehicle droppings. Only 15 minutes was allotted to effectively weighed down with “Nothing bonds a staff more preventcongestion. supplies, the caravan set out to the than de-hanting mouse turds,” said The next stop was the backcountry campsite. Continued on page 11, Scatter PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PHILMONT TRAINING CENTER 9 | PhilNews Rayado Focused Family Program By Matthew Baide Staff Writer The PTC is introducing new are Ropers, and the 10 year old races, potato sack race and the tour that we give other groups since and [everyone] were all there, this things this year, most notably boys are Sidewinders. stick and bucket game. it is such a unique demographic.” is how they would have done it. focused programs at Rayado. Each age group has a different More complex pioneer games The sidewinders have a So they can get a sense of what it “We haven’t been taking our program. are the marble spin and water different schedule. They will be would be like and how things are kids there for a while,” Associate The Mustangs will take a flow. The marble spin tries to see doing a candlelight tour, along different now.” Director of Program Andrea shortened tour of Rayado, bake how long participants can keep a with candle making. They also And hopefully by the end of Watson biscuits, learn how to make butter, marble spinning in a cone. And have a campfire and camp at it, the participants have a better said. “We, from the Training throw tomahawks and grind corn. water flow is a team game where Rayado overnight. appreciation for the things they Center, had not done a lot of work The Ropers will also take a a team tries to transport a cup of Watson wants the young have. to see what they would get out of shortened tour, followed by setting water over a plastic tarp that has participants to experience what it “I want them to get a sense of the experience. We just assumed up teepee’s, grinding corn and use holes in it. There is one person was like back then, and not just tell the Old West and what it would be they would go down and have a muskets. underneath the tarp, with teams them. like to live on the Santa Fe Trail,” good time, but now we are taking a Both will have a chance to trying to keep that person dry. “They are going to talk about Watson said. “Especially to be more focused approach as to what look around La Posta, the Rayado “The idea was to give them what it was like back then to live a kid their age, what it would have we want them to get out of the store. more hands on with the age there and actually work there,” been like to have been a 13 year old experience.” Both younger groups will also groups,” Associate Director of Watson said. “For example, they girl living at Rayado, and how does Rayado programs vary based get to participate in pioneer games. Program Andrea Watson said. might ask a kid who is there, how that compare to the life you have on age. Eleven to 13 year old girls These games include a rolling the “Things that they could do, as does your mom do laundry? If you n ow.” are Mustangs, 8 to 10 year old girls hoop, stick pull, wheel barrow opposed to giving them the same lived in Rayado when Kit Carson 10 | PhilNews INVASIVES PhilmontScoutRanch.org Philmont Invaded Continued from page 7, Continued Exhibits from page 8, library, visitors can view a painting “Triumph of the Wolves” on,” said Werhane. documentary on Seton’s hunt for on the wall adjacent to Lobo’s Every corner of the Philmont Lobo the wolf. Lobo’s pelt hangs in pelt. The painting depicts a pack museum and Seton Memorial a glass case as the focal point of the of wolves devouring the remains Library offers visitors a piece ofScatter room. of a human skeleton and sound of New Mexico History. While the “Lobo’s pelt is probably one teeth grinding on bone haunts the building may seem small, it offers of our most iconic pieces” said image. limitless amounts of historical and Ashley Martin, another museum “The only way to truly cultural knowledge. shop clerk. appreciate the painting is to stand Visitors can also view Seton’s on the table and look at it straight Continued from page 6, New Music like the first European immigrants One beautiful thing about music tribes passed their culture, history changed when they got to the is that no instrument or genre ever and knowledge of their ancestors Americas. Mandolins used to look truly becomes a relic. through music. similar to the European lute, but Beyond emotional messages, It is never too late to start as American culture evolved, the music conveys actual messages learning an instrument. If you instrument adapted to fit the folk from group to group or group already know how to play, Fields tradition that grew in the heart of to society. Slave spirituals gave still welcomes you to come out and the new Americans. essential information for escape jam. There is never a better time Music continues to grow and routes and methods to other slaves. than right now to experience the adapt with us. Violins have gone In many religions, music power of music, right here in God’s electric and look like nothing more explains the theology or tells country. than a thin metallic outline of the stories through the lyrics. In wooden instrument it imitates. addition, several Native American

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By Beverly Ponterio Staff Writer Either I-Camp or email Thirteen plant species are Integrated Pest Management currently invasive on Philmont Plan at Philmont using two any articles you wish to be property, the most detrimental primary removal methods: considered. Please submit of which are the noxious weeds. biological and mechanical. The Philmont Invasive Species Biological is the use of all articles by Saturday to Team in the Conservation predators from the invasive Department is working hard to plant’s natural environment, be in the following Friday’s eliminate the invasive problem. mostly bugs. In order for a bug issue. Noxious weeds are weeds to go into use, it must go through that cause economic harm or extensive study. The studies are harmful to humans and need prove that the bug’s life depends removal. The reason these plants entirely upon the plant so that Email: philmontnps@ become a problem is because when it has eaten and killed all philmontscout ranch.org they have no native predators of the targeted invasive species in the new location and thus it too will die. This prevents have a growing advantage adding in a new invasive species over native species. There is an Continued on page 15, Invaded PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org CHAPLAIN’S CORNER 11 | PhilNews Continued from page 7, Continued Chaplain’s Corner: Exhibits from page 8, on,” said Werhane. Beyond What’s Expected Every corner of the Philmont museum and Seton Memorial By Father Mike Library offers visitors a piece ofScatter Wheelahan New Mexico History. While the building may seem small, it offers Chaplain limitless amounts of historical and Greetings to all. This corner cultural knowledge. of the newspaper is reserved for a thought from one of the illustrious and honored Chaplains. Elder Davis has given me the privilege of being as the first to Continued from page 6, share my thoughts. I suspect the reason he chose me was that he New Music knows the staff has been waiting with breathless expectation for a tribes passed their culture, history word of encouragement and lofty and knowledge of their ancestors holiness from me. Perhaps he through music. knows that the things I have to It is never too late to start say will inspire all of us to work learning an instrument. If you hard at loving one another and already know how to play, Fields sacrificing ourselves in our labors still welcomes you to come out and for the glory of God. But I think jam. There is never a better time more likely it is because by the next than right now to experience the printing I will be gone back to my power of music, right here in God’s real job in Oklahoma. country. We have all gone through a great deal of training. Not only do we know a lot about our own jobs and responsibilities, but we have also come to know a lot about each other’s jobs and responsibilities. This gives us all an appreciation for the complexity of work that goes on here at the ranch. It also brings awareness that work as a whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. Part of the challenge we give to each other as scouts is to “do our best” We accomplish our best by Father Mike Wheelahan. RACHEL TAYLOR/PHILNEWS raising the bar and expecting PHOTOGRAPHER more from each other than is often master, “. . . does he thank the higher standard this summer and Crews load up a truck at base camp before Cypher’s Mine scatter on Wednesday, June 6. AL GERMANN/PHILNEWS expected in the “off ranch” world. servant for doing the things which go beyond only what is required PHOTOGRAPHER The movie classic, “Ripples” he is commanded to do? I think of us. Setting the example for the issues the same challenge when it not. So you also, when you shall participants of what it really means Schnell with a chuckle. Each camp announced their stated negatively “I’m just doing have done all these things that to “do our best.” In assembly lines the staff 10-8 for the summer amidst my j o b.” are commanded of you say, ‘We member unloaded the supplies cheers for all to hear. With that This relates to Scripture when are useless servants, we have done on to their cabin’s porch. Like announcement, the staffs were Jesus speaks of the master- servant only that which was required of a well oiled machine, they left to prepare for the participants’ relationship. Jesus says about the us.’” Luke 17:7-10 moved everything quickly and arrival. Taking in the general Let us hold each other to a efficiently. There was still a fair splendor of his new home, Ben share of laughter and gleeful Hinkle of Phillips Junction stood chatter throughout the entire in awe of his surroundings. process. While the staff was busy With arms spread wide in a unloading, the pilot lights were lit sweeping gesture, Hinkle said, “I and the water system was checked. can’t wait to wake up to this view Once everyone was settled, every morning!” the last thing to do was make radio contact with basecamp. 12 | PhilNews ART & ENTERTAINMENT PhilmontScoutRanch.org Mylie Cyrus Engaged Devil Wears Prada Sequel McAvoy Hoists the Torch Storyteller Cinema By CNN By EW.com Actor James McAvoy carried 110 Old Talpa Canon Road, Taos, NM Mylie Cyrus, 19, is engaged to Author Lauren Weisberger is the Olympic torch through “The Hunger Games” star Liam currently writing “Revenge Wears Glasgow, Scotland on its way (575) 751-4245 Hemsworth, 22. The couple met Prada: The Devil Returns,” a to London. This was only part when they co-starred in the 2009 sequel to her debut novel “The of the torch’s 70-day journey film “The Last Song.” Hemsworth Devil Wears Prada.” The sequel around the United Kingdom. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) proposed on May 31 with a picks up eight years after the Excitement is mounting as the Ben Stiller, Chris Rock 3.5-carat diamond in 18-karat main character, Andy, left her boss torch nears the Olympic site. gold with carved diamond floral Miranda. Andy is now working 93 minutes motifs in an art nouveau pattern. for a premier bridal magazine 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:15 while simultaneously planning Cake Boss Shares Creations her down wedding. However, By Associated Press Third Lady Gaga Albumwith the fashion industry being Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Complete close knit, it’s only a matter of Buddy Valastro, star of TLC’s Ben Stiller, Chris Rock By RollingStone.com time before the Devil Returns. show Cake Boss, is developing a cake line for bakeries across 93 minutes Lady Gaga announced the America. This will give fans Christopher Lee Metal Rock Star completion of her third full-length of the show an opportunity to 12:30, 3:35, 6:30, 8:45 By WENN album. The artist is currently taste the desserts from the New on tour in Asia to support her Jersey bakery. Prometheus (R) 2011 album “Born This Way.” Actor Christopher Less, known for When Lady Gaga returns for his role in the Lord of the Rings Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender her stateside tour, the show franchise, celebrated his 90th 124 minutes may be altered to incorporate birthday by releasing a second songs from the new album. heavy metal album. Charlemagne: Comedian Tommy Chong 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 The Omens of Death is the Fighting Prostate Cancer follow-up album to Charlemagne: By CNN By The Sword And The Cross. Prometheus 3D (R) Tommy Chong, part of the Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender Concerts and Shows “Cheech and Chong” comedy 124 minutes duo, announced Saturday that June 17: Roberto Carlos; El Paso County Coliseum he is battling prostate cancer, 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Having first noticed symptoms about eight years ago while June 19: Alison Krauss & Union Station; Inn of the incarcerated for selling drug Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Mountain Gods Resort and Casino paraphernalia, Chong said he Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth was diagnosed “about a month ago.” He revealed his condition 127 minutes June 22: Dave Koz; The Plaza Theatre Performing in an interview about his support 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Arts Center for decriminalizing marijuana use and sales. Men in Black 3 (PG-13) July 6: The Beach Boys; Sandia Casino Amphitheater Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones 106 minutes July 20: Sublime with Rome; Hard Rock Casino Robin Roberts Reveals MDS 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Albuquerque Presents the Pavilion Diagnosis By CNN

Marvel’s The Avengers (PG-13) Robin Roberts, a “Good Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans Morning America” co-anchor Movies Coming out June 15 who battled breast cancer for five 142 minutes years, “Good Morning America,” 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 now faces another dangerous Rock of Ages (PG-13) health condition. In April, Extraterrestrial Roberts, 51, was diagnosed with That’s My Boy (R) myelodysplastic syndrome, also called MDS, the same day her The Tortured show defeated NBC’s “Today The Woman in the Fifth Show” in ratings for the first time in nearly 16 years. She said. “Talk about your highs and lows!” *These movies may not be available at Taos’ Storyteller Cinema PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org SPORTS 13 | PhilNews Local and Regional National Sports

Albuquerque Isotopes Colorado Rockies A Sports Update With Matthew Baide By Isotopes.com By ESPN.com

Isotopes were 3-4 this week, with The Rockies went 3-4 over the Stanley Cup Finals NBA Finals Boxing a big 12-0 win over Memphis to break, almost sweeping the By ESPN.com By ESPN.com begin a seven game homestand. Dodgers, but losing two out of The Oklahoma City Thunder The Isotopes will finish the series three against the Diamondbacks. After being down 3-0 in the series, defeated the San Antonio Spurs In a controversial decision, the New Jersey Devils have won in six games to earn a berth in the Timothy Bradley defeated Manny Cake Boss Shares Creations with Memphis, and play Round The Rockies began interleague the last two games against the Los NBA finals. The Thunder came Pacquiao, earning the WBO By Associated Press Rock for three games before play on Friday at home against heading on the road to take on the Angels, losing 7-2. Angeles Kings to force game 6. The back from 18 points down in game welterweight title. Bradley won series is 3-2, check ESPN.com who six. The Miami Heat defeated the a split decision, with one judge Buddy Valastro, star of TLC’s Iowa in a four game series. The won the series. Boston Celtics 100-88 in game scoring the fight 115-113 for show Cake Boss, is developing Isotopes are currently 3.5 games seven of the Eastern Conference Pacquiao, while the other two a cake line for bakeries across back of first place. Finals. Lebron James scored 31 judges scored the fight 115-113 America. This will give fans NCAA Track & Field Denver Broncos points to lead the team, and scored Bradley. This is Pacquiao’s first loss of the show an opportunity to By Associated Press 45 points in game six to force game since 2005. Pacquiao has a rematch taste the desserts from the New New Mexico Stars The Florida Gators won the seven. clause in his contract, which Jersey bakery. By newmexicostars.com NCAA outdoor track and field D.J. Williams sent out a tweet sources say he is likely to use. The championships that may have revealed some of rematch would be scheduled for The Stars played their final on June 9. Florida beat LSU by the Broncos playbook. Williams Nov. 10. home game against the Wichita sent out a tweet that appeared two points and Texas A&M by 10 Hockey Wild, losing 55-42. The Stars to have shown formations. The points. Florida became the By Associated Press are now 2-10, and will finish the tweet was later removed. The first team since the 2003 Arkansas College Softball season on the road against the Broncos have given the team Razorbacks to win both the indoor Vladimir Krutov, former Soviet By ESPN.com Allen Wranglers. iPads to help them learn plays. and outdoor track and Union hockey player, died June 5 field titles. in Moscow. Krutov was best known The Alabama Crimson Tide for playing on the KLM line, which have their second national was one of the best scoring lines in championship of the college College Baseball history. Krutov won gold in the season, defeating the Oklahoma ‘84 and ‘88 Olympics. He is best Sooners in game three of the The college world series begins known in America for playing Women’s College World Series 5-4. today in Omaha, Neb., with eight against the 1980 U.S. Gold Medal Oklahoma won the first game, but teams competing in a double hockey team in Lake Placid, which the Crimson Tide won the next elimination format to determine the Soviets took third that year. two games of the series to capture the best college baseball team in Krutov was 52. the title. This is Alabama’s and the the nation. SEC’s first softball title.

Sports June 15-22 Baseball By Associated Press NBA Finals- Thunder vs. Heat: French Open Game 3, June 17; Game 4 June 19; The Seattle Mariners had six By Associated Press Game 5 (if necessary) June 21 pitchers combine to throw a no- hitter against the Los Angeles Maria Sharapova defeated Sara U.S. Open Golf- 2nd round today; Dodgers in a 1-0 win. Mariners’ Errani in straight sets to win the 3rd round Saturday; 4th round starter Kevin Millwood pitched six French Open. This is Sharapova’s Sunday; television coverage on innings, but hurt himself warming first French title, completing ESPN Friday and NBC Saturday up in the seventh inning. Five her grand slam of major and Sunday Mariner relievers came in and championships. finished the job. It was the fourth Soccer- Euro 2012- key matches: no-hitter thrown this season, Sweden vs. England, Netherlands and the first thrown by multiple vs. Portugal pitchers since 1994. 14 | PhilNews WORLD AND U.S. NEWS PhilmontScoutRanch.org Emory University Professor Stocks Have Best Week of Year Massacre at Syrian Village Troop Suicides Surge in 2012 Eurozone Discusses Spain Named 19th Poet Laureate By CNN Money By BBC News By BBC Bailout By The Huffington Post By BBC U.S. stocks rose sharply on Friday, A reporter for the BBC, Paul As of June 3, the army’s 2012 The Library of Congress named giving the Dow Jones industrial Danahar, found the remains of active-duty suicides reached 154 The International Money Fund Natasha Trethewey to be its 19th average and the NASDAQ their a deserted tiny village near the compared with 130 in the same has estimated that Spain’s most U.S. poet laureate. Tretheway best week of the year. The Dow western city of Hamas named period last year, according to vulnerable banks need at least won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Jones rose 93 points to close at Qubair. People in the area told the Pentagon. “We are deeply $50 billion. Thus far, Spain has her collection of poems, “Native 12,554, while the NASDAQ rose a UN team that everybody in concerned about suicide in the resisted pressure to ask for a Guard,” about the Louisiana 27 points to close at 2,858. The Qubair “had died except for a few,” military,” a Pentagon spokeswoman bailout. Reports say that the Native Guard, a black Civil War weeks’ increases occurred amid according to a UN spokeswoman. said, adding it was “one of the most banking system could get loans of regiment assigned to guard white speculation that Spain would urgent problems” they faced. up to $100 billion. On Friday, the confederate soldiers. request a bailout for its trouble IMF reported that some of Spain’s banking sector. Much of the financial sector was well managed; increases were driven by hopes for Man Given Old George however, measured were needed Racehorse I’ll Have Another a coordinated intervention by Zimmerman Phone Number E. Coli Outbreak Sickens 14, for those hit by the property crash Not to Participate in Belmont, global central banks to support the By BBC Kills 1 and recession. Ending Triple Crown Bid international economy. By The Huffington Post By CNN News Junior Alexander, from Florida, has been receiving death threats In Atlanta, a mysterious and Iran Says Moscow Nuclear Talks The racehorse I’ll Have Another ever since being assigned the scattered outbreak of the E. coli Could Stall will not be participating in Al Qaeda Leader Incites Tunisian mobile phone number that once bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses, By The Huffington Post Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, ending Violence belonged to Trayvon Martin. including a child’s death, its chances of potentially becoming By The Huffington Post Alexander, 49, bought himself a health officials say. No form of An Iranian negotiator warned the first Triple Crown winner in 34 mobile phone for the first time but contaminated food or other cause Sunday that this month’s talks years, a spokesman for trainer Al-Qaida leader Ayman al- was bombarded by about 70 angry has been identified in the illnesses, in Moscow over Iran’s nuclear Doug O’Neill said. The spokesman Zawahri called on the Tunisian phone calls at all hours of the night which occurred in April and program could stall because of cites swelling in one of the horse’s people to rise up against the after activating it. May, according to the Centers for faulty preparation. legs for its withdrawal, which was country’s Islamist ruling party for Disease Control confirmed by O’Neill during the accepting a constitution not based and Prevention. Ali Bagheri, Iran’s No. 2 nuclear “Dan Patrick Show.” on Islamic Shariah law, according French Election: Socialists and to a recording released Sunday. Allies “set for win” negotiator, said advance talks were By BBC News agreed on to clarify the agenda for In an audio recording posted on the Moscow round, set for June 18- U.S. Trade Deficit Down militant forums, al-Zawahri said The Socialists appear tied with the Sept. 11 Health Fund Cleared To 19. By The Associated Press the leaders of the Ennahda party, right-wing UMP party on about Cover Cancer a moderate Islamist group that 35% of the vote, but the support By The New York Times The official IRNA news agency The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in formed a new government after of Green allies gives them closer said Bagheri made the complaint April by 4.9 percent to $50.1 billion, October elections, are violating to 40%. A federal health official’s ruling on in a letter to senior EU official the Commerce Department said. Islam’s teachings by accepting Friday has cleared the way for 50 Helga Schmid on Sunday. and causing further damage. Mechanical removal is U.S. exports have fallen 0.8 percent a constitution that does not The outcome of the polls is different types of cancer to be simply digging up a plant to $182.9 billion. On the other consider Shariah the sole source expected to determine the extent added to the list of sicknesses hand, imports dropped even for legislation. and pace of reform under new covered by a $4.3 billion fund set and removing it at the root further at 1.7 percent, lowering to President Francois Hollande. up to compensate and treat people Man Writing Book on or cutting it down with a saw, $233 billion. exposed to the toxic smoke, dust Kindness Shot in Mont. depending on the species. and fumes in the months after the Run-offs are to be held a week later. By Associated Press These two methods do not Mass. Town OKs $20 Fines for Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. work on all invasive species Swearing in Public A West Virginia man who told and so there is a third method, Mother of 19-Year-old Killed By Associated Press authorities he was hitchhiking which is not as preferable by Border Patrol Sues across the country and writing due to other environmental Nevada Tunnel Accident Kills Wildfires in Colo., NM Burn By Associated Press Residents in Middleborough a memoir about kindness impacts, herbicidal. This uses Worker, Hurts Another out of Control voted Monday night to make was injured in a seemingly chemicals to destroy the plants, By Associated Press By Associated Press The mother of a 19-year-old man the foul-mouthed pay fines for random drive-by shooting near but that can also have a negative fatally shot in the back by a U.S. swearing in public. Montana’s booming Bakken oil effect on the soil making it A construction worker was killed Massive wildfires in drought- Border Patrol agent has sued patch. difficult for anything else to and another worker was injured parched Colorado and New the federal government and the At a town meeting, residents grow where the spray touches. in a tunnel under construction at Mexico tested the resources of agent himself, claiming it was “an voted 183-50 to approve a Ray Dolin, 39, was shot in the Another reason these plants Lake Mead after some material state and federal crews Monday appalling use of excessive force” proposal from the police chief arm as he approached a pickup prove problematic is that they became loose and pressure sent and underscored the need to because her son was unarmed, to impose a $20 fine on public Saturday evening, thinking the tend to take over the area in grout flying through the air. replenish an aging U.S. aerial had his back to the agent and profanity. driver was offering him a ride,which they began growing. This firefighting fleet needed to posed no threat. said Valley County Sheriff Glenmakes grasses unable to grow, combat a year-round fire season. Meier. depleting a major food source for many animals including cattle. That is where the economic dilemma comes into play. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org MISCHELLANEOUS 15 | PhilNews Continued from page Continued 10, Invaded from page 7, Award

a long process at the TOTT. It unique to Philmont. He loves that began before any crews showed he is always busy when working at up at Philmont with extensive TOTT. training, with staff completing 18 “I love the action that we clinics about store products before have in the store on the sales opening for regular summer hours. floor and the warehouse getting “...Our vendor support things delivered, there is always Iran Says Moscow Nuclear Talks from our industry reps was something going on,” Loncki said. Could Stall unbelievable,” O’Neill said. “They Regardless of how many By The Huffington Post know the power of product at years they’ve been on staff, all Philmont. We are outdoor retailer staff members enjoy working at An Iranian negotiator warned of the year for lots of things the the TOTT. First year TOTT staff Sunday that this month’s talks store does for sure but it is the Christina Chambers likes having in Moscow over Iran’s nuclear brand of Philmont that brings this the expectations of being on an program could stall because of recognition and every department award-winning staff. faulty preparation. and every staff member contribute “Working with the people, the to that title.” staff here are awesome and fun, Ali Bagheri, Iran’s No. 2 nuclear A typical day at the TOTT meeting the campers is a ton of fun negotiator, said advance talks were is standard for a retail store, with and learning about cool outdoor agreed on to clarify the agenda for customers coming in and out, products,” Chambers said. the Moscow round, set for June 18- selling products and stocking The store expects to be busy 19. shelves. But there is something from the time the first crews show that staff at TOTT incorporates to up until the last crew leaves on a keep up morale: they have fun. bus. The official IRNA news agencyYellow toad flax grows in Base Camp. This plant later grows yellow flowers. RACHEL TAYLOR/ said Bagheri made the complaint PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER “Shelley takes the FISH And the TOTT hopes that in a letter to senior EU official philosophy and lets us play, lets us they will have another award- Helga Schmid on Sunday. and causing further damage. Introduction of grass that get spores and seeds motivate the customers,” Loncki winning summer. Mechanical removal is invasives happens in two tangled in and hide from view. said. “I can’t tell you how many “We are so excited to have an simply digging up a plant ways: seed contaminants Alfalfa itself is a non-native plant characters or theme nights or opportunity to win it all and believe and removing it at the root and ornamental escape. originating in Asia. If farmers different interactions we have with we have the momentum from our or cutting it down with a saw, Seed contaminants are were only to import the seeds a customer…there is never a dull participants and customers and moment.” the outdoor industry to hopefully depending on the species. seeds that travel by firstto grow themselves and not the Loncki, special operations achieve the big one,” O’Neill said. These two methods do not attaching themselves to actual grass, it could help to cut at TOTT, has been working at work on all invasive species something such as hay or socks. down on invasive introduction. Philmont for three years. His and so there is a third method, Ornamental escapes are trees Preventing introduction favorite product in the store is which is not as preferable and flowers that people plant for through ornamental introduction the belt buckles, because they are due to other environmental their beauty, but end up taking is easily achievable by not impacts, herbicidal. This uses over the land on which they grow. planting non-native or exotic chemicals to destroy the plants, Both of these forms trees. At the very least extensive but that can also have a negative of introduction are easily research should occur identifying effect on the soil making it preventable. Seed contaminants what preys on those plant species difficult for anything else to that humans carry generally to see if predators exist in the grow where the spray touches. attach to their clothes and shoes, planting location. If no known Another reason these plants so when traveling from place predators exist there, the plants prove problematic is that they to place, such as from home should not exist there either. tend to take over the area in to Philmont, it is essential to In order to preserve the plant which they began growing. This check clothing, especially socks population that was here when makes grasses unable to grow, and shoes, for seeds and spores. Waite Phillips possessed this depleting a major food source for Seed contaminants that land participants and staff must many animals including cattle. enter from shipping are a bit help prevent the introduction That is where the economic trickier to catch. One of the and spread of invasive species. dilemma comes into play. biggest culprits is hay and alfalfa 16 | PhilNews THE WILD WITHIN PhilmontScoutRanch.org

Stay involved The Wild WithinVenomous snakes throughout the year! By Beverly Ponterio Staff Writer Sometimes we get so lost hemotoxic venom. Hemotoxic intake. Venom injects via fangs looking at the mountains venom effects blood and tissue or stingers while poison absorbs Keep up-to-date with the latest that we forget to be aware as opposed to neurotoxins, by touch or ingestion. Snake of what is by our feet. which attack the nerves. venom not only paralyzes the High Country, regional reunions, New Mexico has Many people fear snakes prey, but also begins breaking access to the member’s directory, eight species of venomous because of how “creepy” down the tissues before it is snakes, seven of which are they seem. In reality, the even swallowed, making the cool stuff, and much more... rattlesnakes: the Mojave, body of a snake is incredibly digestion process far easier. western diamondback, prairie, functional in its design. According to Lay, the best ridge nose, black tailed rattler, Snakes need their long way to avoid rattler bites is space. massasauga, and the coral snake. bodies because they swallow Give snakes a wide berth and Rattlesnakes are the their food whole. The intestines never try to pick them up. He largest threat in the Philmont stretch the length of the snake also says to avoid tall grasses area, particularly the western in order to allow for digestion during the day and roadsides diamondback. Diamondbacks as the food travels through at dawn or dusk where snakes are usually five to seven feet the body. Snakes are thus the spend much of their time. long on average. They are often most vulnerable after a meal, Though it is true that A fellowship of current and former brown, tan or red, blending easily which is frequently when they venomous snake bites are rare with the desert environment. sunbathe to gather extra energy. here, they are simple to avoid. Philmont staff They have dark toned diamond Snakes also need their Check your sleeping bag before patterns on their back. venom to aid in digestion; crawling in at night, turn your According to Nate Lay of the they are venomous as opposed shoes over in the morning, SIGN UP NOW!!! Health Lodge, Philmont generally to poisonous. It is a subtle and stay alert while hiking. deals with pit vipers, which have difference specifying the form of It’s only $15 for a year’s membership

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Owen’s Corner By Owen McCulloch, Associate Director of Program The Wild Within Pro-Scouting Interest Reception – Tuesday, June 26, 6 PM, Villa Philmonte Gallery The Boy Scouts of America through helping to organize Gallery Room for individuals is the largest youth organization their membership recruitment, who are interested in learning in the world, serving almost fundraising, volunteer more about Professional 4 million youth and adult recruitment and training, and Scouting. Joining the reception volunteers through a network program support. are several Scout Executives who of local councils in every state The Boy Scouts of America is are the CEO’s for local councils, in America. Volunteers and looking for individuals who may as well as representatives from programs are supported by a be interested in a profession with the regional and national offices local council; there are over 300 a purpose; this is the District of the Boy Scouts of America councils operating as part of the Executive. Starting salary starts to answer questions about Boy Scouts of America, and each at around $30,000 per year plus professional Scouting. one hires a team of professional benefits, and raises are earned If you are interested in and support staff. annually based on performance. attending the reception or In a local council there is You must have a 4-year college want to learn more about a position called the District degree, and either be a US professional Scouting, contact Executive. This is a full-time Citizen, or have declared your Owen McCulloch at Camping person hired by the council intent to become a citizen. Headquarters, 575-376-1131 to support the volunteers and Within the Scouting program (office) or 575-447-2115 programs within a geographic there are a wide variety of career (mobile), or I-Camp your name area of the council known as a paths, and employees with tenure and department. An invitation district. They are the person are valued. is not required, but please RSVP that the community in that On Tuesday, June 26, 6:00 so we have an accurate count of district looks towards to help PM, there is a reception being attendees. support their Scouting programs held at the Villa Philmonte

Philmont Museums: Philmont Museum-Seton Memorial Library and Gift Shop Villa Philmonte-Kit Carson Museum Owen McCulloch is the Base Camp and Seasonal Personnel Director at Philmont. KATY MOONEY/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER The Philmont Museum-Seton Memorial Library’s current exhibits focus on Native American clothing and illustrations from the Ernest Thompson Seton collection and an updated look at Philmont history. The Museum Gift Shop markets Native American jewelry, pottery, a large collection of pawn and over 500 regional books titles. Open Daily.

Villa Philmonte was the summer home of Philmont’s benefactor Waite Phillips. Open to the public daily for guided tours. Reservations are If you have a cool wildife encounter required. whilst hiking in the backcountry or The Kit Carson Museum at Rayado is a living history museum on the around base camp, please come by mountain route of the Santa Fe Trail. The settlement, located seven miles south of the Philmont Museum was formerly the home of frontiersmen the News and Photo office and ask Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson. Summer hours 8-5 daily. for Beverly. We’d love to share it in Philmont is located 4 miles south of Cimarron on Hwy 21 our next issue if possible. Call 575-376-1136 for tour information. 18 | PhilNews ANTI-SMOKING PhilmontScoutRanch.org Stopping Smoking: Risks and Rewards Reprinted with permission from Mayo Clinic Health Letter. All rights reserved.

No matter what your after five to 15 years, your counseling program. In to use medications to help risk of dying from other lung age, your health will benefit stroke risk will be the same addition, every state has stop smoking. However, side diseases by 12 to 13 times almost immediately if you as that of a nonsmoker. at least one telephone quit effects of these medications and increases the risk of stop smoking. If you’ve tried to stop line, which you can access are usually infrequent, minor bone loss and fractures. Risk Just 20 minutes after smoking but failed, don’t by calling 800-QUIT-NOW and manageable, either by of infection, slow wound your last cigarette, your give up. Most smokers make (800-784-8669) reducing doses or switching healing, gum disease and heart rate goes down. Twelve many attempts to stop before • Medications— Theseto another medication. If you other health problems are hours later, levels of carbon they have long-term success. can help with withdrawal think you’re experiencing higher. Secondhand smoke monoxide in your blood You’re more likely to succeed symptoms. side effects, contact your raises the risk of health return to normal. Lung by using: Due to recent reports doctor right away. problems in those around function improves and your • Behavioral counseling— about the side effects of drugs In contrast, the toll that you. circulation starts to get better This can help you develop to help you stop smoking— continued smoking takes is within three months. After the skills to stay away from including depression, severe. Smoking increases a year, your risk of having tobacco over the long run. agitation, unusual behavior heart disease and stroke risk a heart attack because you Your doctor may recommend and even suicidal thoughts— by two to four times, lung smoked drops by half. And local support groups or a some people may be reluctant cancer risk by 13 to 23 times,

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Bupropion Increases levels of brain chemicals that are Sleep disturbances, dry mouth and headache. also boosted by nicotine, decreasing withdrawal Very rarely associated with psychiatric symptoms. (Zyban) symptoms and reducing pleasure from smoking. Doubles odds of stopping. May help minimize weight gain as you stop smoking. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org GAMES 19 | PhilNews Sudoku WORD JUMBLES kcbunoacytr

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Ready for change? It’s the Philmont program,” asserts sure there’s enough quarters in not a wash-- this month, the O’Neill. “Can you imagine there.” Speaking of quarters, the Laundromat at Camping coming off the trail after 10 MC720-DA holds 6,400. Headquarters will receive a new days? All you want to do is your As for the new machine’s change machine. laundry and you have to wait in a arrival, “Expect to see it up and Shelley O’Neill, store line of people to get change at the running June 20” said O’Neill. director at Tooth of Time trading post. Unacceptable.” “In the meantime, we are so sorry Traders, knows the importance Luckily, a replacement is on for any delay in hygiene, laundry of a working change machine. the way. It is called the MC720- and cleanliness.” “In a true customer service point DA “Dual Rhino” Standard If you need change, Tooth of of view, nobody should have to Change Maker, and takes one, Time Traders won’t hang you out worry about going somewhere to five, 10, and 20 dollar bills and to dry. Stop in the store from 7:30 get change if they’re smelly and features two bill acceptors. a.m. to 6:45 p.m. or the snack bar their clothes are smelly,” she says. O’Neill explains, “When one from 8-10 p.m. The clerks will be The current change machine [acceptor] gets grimy and dusty, happy to cycle you through. at the camping headquarters the other one will still work.” That (Change machine photo Laundromat has been out of allows for a technician to fix the courtesy of changemakerstore. order since the beginning of the broken side while the machine com) summer season. Attempts to fix remains fully functional. the machine proved fruitless. It’s a relief for O’Neill. “I’m And with crews looming, it was looking forward to not having time to make a change. to figure out the engineering “It’s our Philmont laundry behind the change machine” experience-- it’s another part of says O’Neill, “... and making

The Story of Ernest PSA Seasonal Staff Scholarship Thompson Seton The Philmont Staff Association $500 for first year staff, $1,000 for Seasonal Staff Scholarshipsecond year staff, and $1,500 for By The Philmont Museum Staff program has steadily grown over third year staff will be made for the Ernest Thompson Seton was took months rather than weeks thousands of books and artifacts the past five years. More money Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 academic born in England in 1860. When to capture the elusive wolf. In the to the BSA to be displayed at the for college expenses have been year. Payment of the scholarship his father lost the family fortune process Seton had a life changing Philmont Museum. Mrs. Seton awarded each year, and more staff will be distributed directly to in 1865, the family moved to experience and fell in love with wanted the Philmont Museum have submitted applications for the school. Applications are due Toronto, Canada. Ernest amused New Mexico. and Seton Memorial Library to be these funds. Both trends continued August 31, 2012. himself by playing Indians in the As a result of his experiences a place of education and history last summer. Ninety-eight summer Over the past five years, nearby woods. In doing so, he he started the Woodcraft Indians, about the Boy Scouts, Philmont, staff applied for the PSA Seasonal $96,000 was been awarded to developed rules that would lay an organization similar to the Boy and New Mexico for all who came Staff Scholarships in 2011. Thanks Philmont staff. First year staff to the groundwork for the Boy Scout Scouts, in 1902. Seton felt drawn to enjoy its collection. to our members’ generosity, the seasoned veterans, Wranglers to Handbook. to helping boys and girls develop This information wasPSA awarded a total of $34,000 to PTC staff to Rangers, freshmen Seton’s professional legacy is strong moral character. collected by the Philmont Museum thirty recipients last year. to graduate school students, extensive. In addition to being an Seton’s model served as an Staff using the following sources: The Philmont Staffthe Philmont staff has been award winning wildlife illustrator inspiration to Lord Baden-Powell Springer Tribune October 13 1966, Association is working hard to well represented amongst the and naturalist, he was also known in starting the Boy Scouts of Lobo DVD documentary, E.T. make 2012 an even bigger year scholarship winners. All college as a bestselling author of animal England. Ernest Thompson Seton Seton Biography, and Mrs. Seton’s for the Seasonal Staff Scholarship and post-secondary education stories. became the first Chief Scout for speech at the Philmont Museum’s program. There will be more funds students are encouraged to apply Seton eventually came to New the BSA and author of the first Boy groundbreaking ceremony. available for you to use for school this year. Mexico in 1893, hired to search Scout Handbook. expenses. However, you need to out and kill the rogue wolf Lobo. Because of his love for New apply. Forms are available around Lobo proved more elusive Mexico and the Boy Scouts of the ranch, including the Silver than Seton had imagined and it America, Seton’s wife donated Sage Staff Activity Center and the PSA office. Scholarship awards of PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org FEATURE 21 | PhilNews Change is Coming Staff Highlight of the Week: The Historian By Katie Sill Staff Writer all ranch purchases. Taylor joined In the past, Taylor worked returned to Philmont for a her parents on staff in 1978. alongside Summer Transportation second summer. sure there’s enough quarters in Her first job was at the Coordinator Vicky Harper and “Robin is a graceful, strong there.” Speaking of quarters, the Philmont Training Center. She Villa Philmonte Curator Nancy woman I respect both personally MC720-DA holds 6,400. worked in the Handicraft Lodge Klein to design multiple museum and professionally,” said Meeks. As for the new machine’s managing a miniature version exhibits. An aspect of the magic of arrival, “Expect to see it up and of the Trading Post. Taylor has “Robin cares so much about Philmont Scout Ranch is derived running June 20” said O’Neill. since transferred her experiences Philmont and the museum she directly from the employees. “In the meantime, we are so sorry to her current position as Gift made it her own objective to learn This is especially true for people for any delay in hygiene, laundry Shop Manager and Librarian at as much as she could,” said Harper. like Robin Taylor who continue and cleanliness.” the Philmont Museum and Seton Taylor was responsible to foster education and positive If you need change, Tooth of Memorial Library. for the research that went into experiences with everyone she Time Traders won’t hang you out Taylor is responsible for constructing the exhibits. She encounters. to dry. Stop in the store from 7:30 buying all the jewelry and books also selected which items would a.m. to 6:45 p.m. or the snack bar for the museum’s gift shop. She be displayed from the museum’s from 8-10 p.m. The clerks will be goes out of her way to ensure collection. In the current exhibit: happy to cycle you through. the museum’s selection does not E.T. Seton and the Indian Costume Robin Taylor. MATTHEW PROKOSCH/PHILNEWS (Change machine photo PHOTOGRAPHER overlap with the Tooth of Time Book, Taylor selected which of courtesy of changemakerstore. Traders. Taylor said the Philmont Seton’s watercolor paintings to com) Robin Taylor, 56, is a Philmont mother, Betty Tate, worked as the Museum’s gift shop offers regional, feature. Assistant Manager Caitlin legacy. Starting in 1976, both Seasonal Registrar while her father, cultural and historical items for Meeks said that the prospect of Taylor’s mother and father began Bill Tate, worked as the Business purchase rather than Philmont- working with Taylor is the reason working at Philmont. Taylor’s Services manager responsible for themed souvenirs. she

$500 for first year staff, $1,000 for second year staff, and $1,500 for third year staff will be made for the Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 academic year. Payment of the scholarship will be distributed directly to the school. Applications are due August 31, 2012. Over the past five years, $96,000 was been awarded to Philmont staff. First year staff to seasoned veterans, Wranglers to PTC staff to Rangers, freshmen to graduate school students, the Philmont staff has been well represented amongst the scholarship winners. All college and post-secondary education students are encouraged to apply this year. 22 | PhilNews MEET THE STAFF PhilmontScoutRanch.org Featured NPS Sustainability Partners Staff: with Whole Foods Garett Franklyn By David Pedrick Hi. My name’s Garett, and I Sustainability Coordinator recently graduated from Middle The Sustainability teamindividuals and their Gimme5 Tennessee State University is proud to announce a new program to supply them with raw with degrees in philosophy and partnership with Whole Foods and material, #5 plastics. journalism and minors in English the Preserve Gimme5 program. As the Sustainability team and writing. Through this partnershipmoves forward with new recycling While there, I worked as Philmont will start collecting #5 initiatives they would appreciate a writing center tutor helping plastics, primarily yogurt cups, input. The Sustainability Team graduates and undergraduates from the backcountry to send to a will be hosting an open forum alike with their essays and tutored Whole Foods in Albuquerque. to start an inter-departmental athletes in philosophy and English. Whole Foods has been conversation about sustainability. Within academia, my interests generous enough to provide Energy use, recycling and waste, focus largely on social and political Philmont with all necessary food, and transportation will be philosophy, logic (formal and equipment and will cover the discussed. informal), and media studies. shipping costs of the recycling to The Sustainability Forum will Outside of that, I’ve written for Preserve Products. be held in the Walcutt Room at my student newspaper, as well as Preserve Products is a small 7p.m. June 22. Attend the Forum worked for The Nashville Scene company in New York that has to learn about the Ranch’s efforts and The Miami Herald and have identified the need to eliminate to reduce the resources needed to been published in The Durango waste from finding itself in a successfully produce wilderness Herald. landfill. To address this issue, experiences and to give ideas for This is my third year here at Preserve picked an in-frequently new initiatives for the Ranch. Philmont, and I imagine it will be recycled plastic from which they fun. Garett Franklyn. MATTHEW PROKOSCH/ could design and manufacture PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER a product. Preserve relies on PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PHOTO FEATURES 23 | PhilNews

A staff member plays the role of a Native American who used to live on the land that is now Philmont Scout Ranch. Several actors and actresses performed monologues about the history of Philmont at the opening campfires on Saturday, June 9, at the Opening Campfire pit. ERIN NASH/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

A scout heads back to Philmont Base Camp after the opening campfire on Saturday, June 9, at the Opeing Campffire pit. ERIN An arriving crew begins their adventure at Cimarroncito Turnaround. NASH/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER LYNN DECAPO/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER 24 | PhilNews PHOTO FEATURES PhilmontScoutRanch.org

An arriving crew begins their adventure at Cimarroncito Turnaround. LYNN DECAPO/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER Rule Holt and Bear Researcher Ben Carlucci discuss a recent bear skull found on Philmont property. Holt, who works in Maintenance, used to own a taxidermy business and has helped the bear researchers with similar situations as recentyly as last year. AL GERMANN/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

Crew leaders receive American flags from their troop rangers to symbolize their leadership of their crew at the opening campfire on Saturday, June 9. ERIN NASH/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER