Magazine

Character Building

Learn how outdoor ‘free play’ helps Scouts grow

By Scouting magazine

Scouting offers an ideal opportunity to restore some sanity to childhood. All we have to do is remember the words of Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell, who wrote: “Play is the first great educator.”

Backpacking & Hiking

Six stoves to heat up your campout menus

By Scouting magazine

For today’s primitive adventures, namely camping or backpacking deep in the woods, a reliable camp stove can still be a dream—turn on the gas, touch a match to the burner, and a blue flame pops to life, a torrent of channeled energy ready to do your culinary deed.

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BSA's Philanthropic Foundation

Jim and Cathy Justice describe why they support Scouting

By Scouting magazine

The BSA “factory” produces good citizens. That’s why Jim Justice recently decided to become a major financial supporter of the Summit Bechtel Reserve, site of the 2013 National Scout Jamboree and located not far from his home in Lewisburg.

Aquatics

Travel to East Texas’ Big Thicket National Preserve

By Scouting magazine

Deep in the eastern part of the Lone Star State, about 250 miles east of Austin, lies a vast, tangled quilt of pine and cypress forest, hardwood forest, meadow, bog, blackwater swamp, and arid sandhills appropriately called the Big Thicket.