Brownsea Island is the Scoutcraft center at Chief Logan Reservation. It’s the best place for first year campers to start their camp experience. It is a great place to get basic Scouting and outdoor skills down pat. Earn the privilege of using a knife or other woods tools and know how to use them properly. You can also learn how to build fires. All adult leaders know that new Scouts are latent pyromaniacs, so make sure that they know the proper and safe way to set a camp or cooking fire! Learn how to prevent the Troop from getting lost on a hike. Learn the six basic knots. If that isn’t enough, learn 15, 20, 50 or "o’er a hunnert." Whatever Scoutcraft skill you are interested in, BSI can meet your needs.

Merit Badges

Camping

This is a Eagle Required Merit Badge. This is a good merit badge for the first or second year camper. The merit badge will take most of the week to complete. Camping merit badge will teaches the camper basic first aid knowledge and how to properly plan for a camping trip.
Note: The only requirement that can not be completed at camp is the 20 nights camping.

Cooking

This is a very fun merit badge, that will teach you the basics of cooking while in the outdoors. BSI teaches both stove and over the fire cooking with grates and dutch ovens.
Note: Meals for Cooking Merit Badge must be prepared before camp in the manner prescribed in requirement #3. Each Scout must cook the required meals.

Pioneering

Certification is available in:

• Totin’ Chip
• Firem’n Chit
• The Paul Bunyan Axeman Award

Selected Special Programs: (from past years, many instant recognition awards change each year)

• Knot Clubs - From the basic 6 up to "o’er a hunnert" (camp record is 247, come break it!)
• Patrol Gateway Competition - Come compete for the best gateway in camp!
• "Order of the Fork" allows a Scout to meet all the cooking requirements for advancement to First Class.
• The 5 mile hike will satisfy advancement hiking requirements.
• The "Splicemeister" award is granted to those that have mastered the wily cousins of knots, splices.

Demonstrations BSI is the place to see many special demonstrations over the course of the week. How can you start a fire with a bowdrill? What is a Dakota Hole and how can you use it to cook? What sort of fantastic pioneering project will the Brownsea Island staff take on this year? This crazy staff is one of the most experienced, creative and skilled of any Scoutcraft area around. Come, see, and learn and find out why no one who has come to CLR ever forgets BSI.

Campfires Come to the BSI campfire for great food (from fresh grouse to piping hot cobbler) and the wildest sing along you’ll ever attend! Location varies, so keep an ear out for the time and place.