Project Report
| May 19, 2017
Time to WAKE UP Camp Forest!
By BEVERLY STONE | Director
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Time to Wake up Camp Forest!
Camp Forest is preparing for its 2017 season. We are looking forward to teaching indigenous and wilderness skills from around the world. The summer is a mix of day camp and expeditions! A unique schedule allows us to offer a Day Camp option during the expeditions. The expeditions are local this year and allow a parent to pick up and drop off children not desiring to sleep away from home, while those a bit more adventurous remain at Camp to enjoy the campfire and night sounds.
Camperships for Camp Forest allow those children from low income families to experience the wilderness. Often families need just a little help to cover the amount outside of their budget. Others need a full campership. Your donation of any amount is added with others to provide the needed assistance so no child has to miss the experience.
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Feb 21, 2017
Camp Forest Under a Blanket of Snow
By BEVERLY STONE | Director
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Keeping a safe "Blood Circle"
Camp Forest is covered in snow. It rests quietly blanketed while the administration is extra busy planning the summer’s events! WE are looking forward to welcoming some new staff and campers as well as greeting past campers and our consistent staff. Eight weeks of summer is a busy active time. Camp Forest has been introducing primitive and wilderness skills from three cultures to children for several years now. Many of our past campers are married with children of their own almost old enough to head to CAMP. They still sing the praises of a Camp that gave them the freedom to explore, the knowledge to be confident, the love of the natural world.
We are honored to continue this tradition into 2017. Thank you for assisting campers to experience the wonder that changes lives.
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Free the Inner Child
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Nov 28, 2016
November at CAMP FOREST
By Beverly Gilbert Stone | Director
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Coal Burning a bowl takes patience
November is the time the Camp Forest staff gathers to plan the next year. As the snow falls and covers Camp, we look forward to changing the lives of children when the ice is gone and school is out.
While planning the Camp Schedule we keep in mind the growing research that indicates the work of Camp Forest has far reaching effects. Not only are the children engaged in outdoor healthy exercise but also the time spent at Camp Forest has long term positive benefits.
“Spending time in natural environments helps with recall and memory, problem solving and creativity.”
“Mental health and wellbeing benefits from play in natural settings appear to be long term, realized in the form of emotional stability in young adulthood.” Open Space Research Center
The low enrollment ratio we cherish for more one to one contact makes it difficult for the children who need an outdoor wilderness experience the most. Your donations for camperships help to make it possible. Thank you
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