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Fig. 1: Forest-C2-Front

Cloth: Heavyweight tan right twill
Embroidery: Continuous loop silk

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Fig. 2: Forest-C2-Reverse

Back: Plain NO imprint with starch

Item Name: Forestry 1937 - 1938

Item ID: Forest-C2

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements March 1931 until January 1952

1. (a) Identify 15 kinds of trees or shrubs; or

(b) If there are less than 15 such kinds growing within a five mile radius of the Scout's home, identify three-fourths of the different kinds available.

2. Collect and identify ten different kinds of wood and be able to tell some uses for each, which he himself has observed.

3. (a) Collect and identify seeds of 10 different kinds of trees or shrubs, or

(b) If there are less than 10 kinds of trees or shrubs which seed within a five mile radius of the Scout's home, then collect and identify three-fourths of such kinds.

4. Describe (of if possible, point out in the woods) the damage that fire does to tree trunks, bark, roots and seedlings.

5. Describe how to fight and stop a surface fire, or a ground fire is such occurs within his region, and tell the chief causes of forest fire.

6. Measure the heights and diameters of three good sized trees, report measurements, and describe the methods used.

7. Present evidence that he has done something specific in furtherance of forestry, equal in service to one of the following:

(a) Planting 100 trees, preferably seedlings grown by himself.

(b) Thinning or "weeding" (cutting out worthless or inferior species) one-quarter acre of young or medium-aged woodland.

(d) Collecting and burning fifty tent caterpillar or other equally destructive insect egg masses or nests.

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