Leave No Trace is a nationwide (and international) program designed to assist visitors with their decisions when they travel and camp on America's public lands. The program strives to educate about the nature of their recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts. Leave No Trace is best understood as an educational and ethical program, not as a set of rules and regulations. If you click here you can receive a copy of the BSA Leave No Trace teaching manual.
This manual contains a variety of activities designed to teach the skills necessary to earn the Leave No Trace Awareness Award. As you review the manual you will realize how easy these lessons are to prepare. You can focus many months of weekly activities on teaching and learning Leave No Trace skills and ethics.