Landscape Architect Merit Badges at 2005 Boy Scout Jamboree

Among the merit badges offered this year at the 2005 Boy Scout Jamboree will be the Landscape Architecture merit badge, sponsored in part by the ASLA. About 2,000 Landscape Architecture merit badges were earned last year. Carl R. Kelemen, Assistant Scout Master for Troop 1 Abington, PA, and an ASLA Trustee from the Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter, will be heading up the efforts of the volunteers who will staff the Landscape Architecture Merit Badge booth at the Jamboree. Held at Ft. A.P. Hill, Virginia from July 25th to Aug. 3rd, 2005, the site is the only place big enough to handle the Jamboree. Three thousand acres of the 75 thousand acres is dedicated for use by the Jamboree. The next Boy Scout Jamboree will be held in 2010, which will also be the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

The Landscape Architect merit badge requirement covers many of the things Landscape Architect’s do in their day to day work. Since 1911, a total of 63,437 landscape architect merit badges have been awarded. “The ASLA is helping support this booth because the profession of Landscape Architecture is shrinking,” says Kelemen, who is also chair of the content on the ASLA website.

To help staff the booth or get more information, contact Carl Kelemen, RLA, ASLA, Principal as soon as possible (215) 887-6607 (V/F), or Email him at c.kelemen@verizon.net