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Outdoorsman The Outdoorsman Award is particularly demanding. It is awarded to a Venturer upon the decision of
Award the Venturer Company executive and the advisor, having satisfied themselves that the Venturer has
requirements completed the requirements in each of the four (4) sections below:
Section 1 - Discovery
Complete the first plus any other two (2) in this section. Projects may be carried out in groups. In each
case participate in the preparation of a written, sketched, taped or photo log of the trip.
• Visit a place of interest on foot involving an overnight stay and at least a total of 32 km
walking, OR 64 km cycling, OR 320 km by car, train or bus OR a similar trip at equivalent
level by means of the Venturer's own choosing.
• In ten (10) hours walk 32 km, OR cycle 120 km, OR swim 1.5 km non-stop, OR jog/run 4.5
km non-stop OR complete an endurance test at equivalent level of the above of your own
design.
• Visit a palce of interest on foot involving a total of 16 km walking, OR involving a total of 40
km by cycling, OR involving a total of 240 km by car, train or bus OR a similar trip at
equivalent level by means of the Venturer's own choosing.
• Participate in the planning, organizing and carrying out of a Company overnight trip to a
Venturer Company in another District or Region. Participate in the organization and execution
of a joint activity with the Venturer Company visited and participate in the preparation of a log
covering the event.
• Over a winter, spring, summer or autumn season, practise an outdoor interest such as: plant
collection, photography, forestry, meteorology, sketching, bird watching, leaf collection,
survival training, animal tracking, or another interest of your choice. Study a stream or lake
and state what condition it is in and what, if any, proposals are needed to correct bad
situations. Make a report or visual presentation to the Company describing the study.
Section 4 - Conservation
Investigate and give a report to the Company on any one (1) of the following subjects. The report must
be at least twenty (20) minutes long and may be illustrated by any means of your own choice. A group
of Venturers can investigate and make a report, but this report would have to be at least thirty (30)
minutes long and would need to be illustrated.
• Animal conservation or plant conservation
• Air conservation
• Water or sea conservation
• Soil conservation
• Mineral conservation
• Ecology
• Governmental conservation measures
• Volunteer conservation groups
• What any industry or company is doing about conservation
• Any subject of your own choice dealing with some aspect of conservation or ecology.