32nd Annual Camp

July 13 -19, 2008

 

Download Application (deadline May 1st)

(must be submitted to your local SWCD Office)

 

Click here for contact information for SWCD Offices

For 31 years, the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts has sponsored a week long summer conservation camp for Virginia high school students (grades 9-12) on the campus of Virginia Tech. The program brings together about 90 interested students for a week of learning about Virginia's natural resources from conservation professionals and faculty from Virginia Tech. Most of the instruction is hands-on and outdoors.  

2007 Youth Conservation Camp Group Photo

Claytor Lake State Park

2007 Press Release

2008 Camp Highlights

Sponsored by the VASWCD. With funding provided by local SWCDs and the Virginia Farm Bureau Foundation.

 

 

 

 

Have you already attended Youth Camp, consider Holiday Lake Forestry Camp

 

June 16-21, 2008

 
Camp Schedule....
 
Sunday, July 13
Tech Campus

Opening program

Tour Campus

Volleyball Tournament

 
Monday, July 14
Claytor Lake State Park
Lake Ecology
Fisheries Management
Water Quality
Cookout

 
Tuesday, July 15
Cascades Hike
Hike to the Cascades waterfall and investigate forestry and wildlife issues
Tour Forest Products Center
Turfgrass Management

 
Wednesday, July 16
VA Tech Campus & Agriculture Farm
Agricultural Best Management
Practices:  Rotational grazing,
alternative watering systems, 
nutrient management, ag stewardship
Soils
Tour Dairy Science
Tour Swine Center
 Tour College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
 

 
Thursday, July 17
Mountain Lake Day

Forest measurements
Dendrology
Wildlife research techniques

Geology 
Forestry BMP Logging Site Visit
          Tour College Natural Resources
Volleyball Tournament

 
Friday, July 18
Canoeing on the New River
          Stream Morphology
          Shoreline Erosion
          Scavenger Hunt Using GIS
          Tour Aquaculture Center

 
Saturday, July 19
Closing Program (Parents are invited)
Check out
Mini-Envirothon
Awards Presentation 
Virginia Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts
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Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111
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