For our new members, returning wardens and parents, the first award we will be working towards is your Bronze Badge.  You must earn this badge before you can receive any of the other Program Badges.  We will be looking at some basic JFW information in order to get your Bronze Badge. You will be receiving resources for this as well as any leaders or other group members can give you. Let us know.  A great way to learn is threw some cheat sheets we will handing out.  A great place to ask questions is driving down the road.  Challenge your warden to see who can get there Bronze Badge First.  Will it be Mom & Dad or your Pathfinder. 

 Leaders appreciate parent involvement for many reasons. As we are all volunteers and are learning weekly, we welcome any knowledge contribution parents can provide during discussions at our weekly meetings. There will be a general skeleton of lesson plans for the year. If you feel you can contribute to knowledge and application of forestry principles, please do not hesitate to approach your leaders.

Conversely, it is an opportunity for some parents (like myself) to learn about the club and program information.

As many of our activities are hands on, they require some set up and definitely some clean up after words and many hands make light work. Help with supervision and crowd control are always welcome.

The wardens will have to bring some equipment to certain meetings. This will be on the yearly schedule on the website, and there will be verbal reminders. It is very difficult to teach a group when half the group is not prepared with the requirements for the lesson plans.

Parents are encouraged (we will be flat out asking you) to participate alongside your children in our weekly activities and prompt wardens to come up with observations and questions, because this is our main goal, encouraging active thinking, not "feed me with a spoon" attitude.

Online Parent meetings are held on Google Meets once a month and will be announced prior to so watch your email. During these meetings, you will also get to put in some feedback and vote on important matters.

Thanks in advance for contributing to the success of our club!