Major Tasks of the Camping and Outdoor Program Committee Chair and Members

1. Report to the district program chair for your district.
2. Recruit and orient enough of the right kind of people for the district camping committee.
3. Understand each unit’s camping and outdoor record.
4. Implement the council’s outdoor promotion plan in the district.
5. Work with commissioners to help packs, troops, teams, and crews plan a year-round schedule of camping and outdoor program events.
6. Promote use of camperships.
7. Give guidance on health and safety concerns.
8. Promote unit participation in council camping opportunities (Boy Scout resident camp, Cub Scout day camp, Cub Scout resident camp, family camps, teenage camps, and Venturing and Sea Scout outdoor activities). In cooperation with unit commissioners and Order of the Arrow chapter members, visit unit parent meetings to tell the summer camp story and help unit leaders plan for camps.
9. Assist the council committee with maintaining and developing quality outdoor program facilities.
10. Promote units earning the National Summertime Pack Award and the National Outdoor Challenge award.
11. Supervise use of off-council campsites by permits and inspections.
12. Track and attain camping and outdoor objectives.
13. Implement the planned council camping and outdoor programs.
14. Guide the Order of the Arrow, through the chapter officers and adviser, to help promote camping in the district