Natural Resource Camp is back for 2016!

Campers will stay at Lake Creek Youth Camp and enjoy three days of fun activities, games and natural resource workshops. Activities include volleyball, horseshoes, geocaching, wildlife tracking, hiking, mountain biking and campfires with s’mores. Campers will also have the opportunity to explore the Strawberry Wilderness, nearby waterways, a National Forest allotment and an active timber sale.

Teens will learn about fire ecology, rangeland management, timber harvesting and stream morphology from a diverse set of local natural resource professionals, including private contractors, permit holders, agency personnel and watershed councils. Campers will team up to develop collaborative forest management solutions with their new-found knowledge and partnerships.

The camp is June 27-30. Youth going into seventh through ninth grades are eligible to enroll, and the registration deadline is June 1.

Registration sheets are available at each school in Grant County or at the OSU Extension office, 530 E. Main St., Ste. 10, John Day, OR 97845. You can also enroll online by visiting extension.oregonstate.edu/grant and clicking the link “4-H Summer Camps.” The link to the registration portal will be found underneath the heading “Natural Resource Camp.”

Natural Resource Camp is brought to you through a partnership between the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, South Fork John Day Watershed Council, U.S. Forest Service, OSU Extension, Grant County 4-H Association, Bureau of Reclamation, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Lake Creek Youth Camp, Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Grant County Bird Club, Blue Mountains Forest Partners, North Fork John Day Watershed Council, Oregon Cattleman’s Association and Iron Triangle.

Funding for Natural Resource Camp is provided by Community Counseling Solutions, Blue Mountains Forest Partners, Bonneville Power Administration, OSU Extension, Old West Federal Credit Union, Grant County Chamber of Commerce, Grant SWCD, Grant County Bird Club, Iron Triangle, Bank of Eastern Oregon and OTEC.