Absolutely the most amazing merit badge clinic of all! Troops from as far away as Montana make the trip to McMinnville, OR (about 4 hours from Silverdale) to participate in the annual clinic — and it’s definitely worth it!
The Evergreen Aviation Museum (Spruce Goose Museum) has its own Scouting coordinator. In addition to [...]

Plant science is one of the more involved merit badges. It requires a lot of planning, and introduces the Scout to a lot of information that is likely new to him.
Three different options are offered to the Scout. This is a great badge to do in conjunction with an introductory Biology, [...]

One of the options for Plant Science is Field Botany. One of the Field Botany options is to visit an Herbarium. What’s an herbarium? That was my first question, too. In short, an herbarium is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study. It’s a lot more interesting than [...]