Turk wrote:
> In the mid 90s the BSA and the NPS were at odds do to
> problems with a few bad apples. BSA promised the NPS
> many millions of hours of service to make amends. See
> BSA memo
> http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/00-nps.html . The
> Sevice to America program ended in 2003 (extended 3
> years) with the service promised short a few million hours.
My troop tried to participate in this program. Despite having more national
parks and monuments than any other state, there were very few available
projects listed in their database in our area. I called the volunteer
coordinator of one of the most popular parks in the nation. They had never
even heard of the program.
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Jeffrey W. Knoll
Grand Canyon Council
Phoenix, AZ
'02 627-H1 Trek 26
'04 610-D Trek 31
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