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CAMP FIRE PROGRAM IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
The Camp Fire Program in Wildlife Conservation is an interdisciplinary team of graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Campfire has always had a long and deep history with the Boy Scouts. The Camp Fire Club of America was founded in 1897 by a group of men who loved the outdoors. They included hunters, target shooters, anglers, explorers, authors, artists, photographers, and most most importantly conservationists. Naturalist William T. Hornaday organized the club. Daniel Carter Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton, the co-founders of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), were two of the original thirty-four charter members of Camp Fire.
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“Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective”
“Leave this world a little better than you found it”
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land”
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans”
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time”
“...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand”
“We and the beasts are kin”
“Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best”
“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country”
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you”