Most Recent Articles from Camping Magazine

• A convenient truth how our past can save the future 

  What an opportunity! Camps began in the late 1800s as a way to connect kids with nature. The first camps introduced boys to hiking, fishing, and...

  11/01/07 by Zayanne Thompson · More from publication

• What's the big deal? Taking a look at "in" issues for teens teens today 

  In the first Teens Today column, presented in the September/October issue of Camping Magazine, a profile of today's teen campers was developed,...

  11/01/07 by Jeff Jacobs Barry A. Garst · More from publication

• It's not that easy, being green … 

  Almost forty years ago (!), a certain celebrity frog first sang a melancholy tune bemoaning being overlooked because he shared his color with so...

  11/01/07 by Rick Stryker · More from publication

• Planting the seeds to grow an environmental stewardship plan 

  Without a plan, we do not know where we are going. Four years ago I was sitting in a meeting with all of our camp department heads, talking about...

  11/01/07 by Zayanne Thompson · More from publication

• Notes from the field risk management 

  A variety of risk management issues influence the management of camps today from challenge courses and water slides that fall under "amusement...

  11/01/07 by Edward A. Schirick · More from publication

• The value of working at camp on the lives of young camp staff research 

  The impact of working as a member of a summer camp staff is seldom recognized for the valuable contributions that often arise from the experience....

  11/01/07 by Theresa M. Ferrari Janel K. Digby · More from publication

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