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Gerber Scout Reservation
Gerber Scout Reservation (GSR), located in Twin Lake, Michigan is a resident camp owned and operated by the Michigan Crossroads Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It began operation in 1950 and had its first official summer camp program in 1951. The Original property was purchased through a gift of 275 shares from Dan Gerber, President of the famous baby food company. The reservation operates two camps; Gerber Scout Camp and the Betty Ford Cub Scout and Webelos Adventureland, as well as numerous year round weekend programming outside of the summer months. Geography Gerber Scout Reservation lies within the boundaries of the Manistee National Forest in Blue Lake Township, Muskegon County, Michigan and is approximately 800 acres in area. The property is bordered on the north by Owasippe Road. The Blue Lake Township Hall and Fire Department lie within a quarter mile from the camp's main entrance. On the south and east borders of the property, Camp Gerber borders Owasippe Scout ...
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Twin Lake, Michigan
Twin Lake is an unincorporated community in Muskegon County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes. Local government services are provided by Dalton Township. As of the 2000 census, the community population was 1,613. It is the home of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the YMCA's Camp Pinewood, the Boy Scouts' Gerber Scout Reservation and Owasippe Scout Reservation. The Twin Lake CDP includes only the areas surrounding the Twin Lakes and the nearby North Lake and West Lakes in the northeast corner of Dalton Township. The Twin Lake ZIP code 49457 serves a much larger area, including much of northern and eastern Dalton Township, most of Cedar Creek Township to the east, parts of northern Egelston Township and Muskegon Township to the south, much of Blue Lake Township to the north and the southwest corner of Holton Township. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of , of which ...
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Roger B
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is '' Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term " Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double ...
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Local Council Camps Of The Boy Scouts Of America
There are hundreds of local council camps of the Boy Scouts of America operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Some of these include: = Active Camps = Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Outside the 50 US states = Closed Camps= Alabama Arizona ...
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Gerber Scout Camp 1960s Patches
Gerber may refer to: Companies * Gerber Legendary Blades, a maker of consumer knives and tools headquartered in Oregon, USA * Gerber Products Company, manufacturer of baby products in Michigan, USA ** Gerber Life Insurance Company, affiliated with Gerber Products * Gerber Scientific, a company specializing in graphics and flexible material machinery in Connecticut, USA Places United States * Gerber, California * Gerber, Georgia, a ghost town * Gerber/Hart Library and Archives in Chicago, Illinois, USA * Gerber Scout Reservation, a summer camp for Boy Scouts, in Michigan, USA People * Gerber (surname) * Von Gerber Other * Gerber convention, an ace-asking convention in contract bridge * Gerber format, computer file format for fabricating printed circuit boards * Gerber failure criterion, an engineering stress-life method of estimating a structural material's fatigue life See also * Gerbera, a type of daisy *Gerbert (other) Gerbert is a Germanic given ...
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Blue Jay
The blue jay (''Cyanocitta cristata'') is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America. It lives in most of the eastern and central United States; some eastern populations may be migratory. Resident populations are also in Newfoundland, Canada; breeding populations are found across southern Canada. It breeds in both deciduous and coniferous forests, and is common in residential areas. Its coloration is predominantly blue, with a white chest and underparts, and a blue crest; it has a black, U-shaped collar around its neck and a black border behind the crest. Males and females are similar in size and plumage, and plumage does not vary throughout the year. Four subspecies have been recognized. The blue jay feeds mainly on seeds and nuts, such as acorns, which it may hide to eat later; soft fruits; arthropods; and occasionally small vertebrates. It typically gleans food from trees, shrubs, and the ground, and sometimes hawks insects from the air. Blue ...
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Northern Cardinal
The northern cardinal (''Cardinalis cardinalis'') is a bird in the genus '' Cardinalis''; it is also known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal (which was its name prior to 1985). It can be found in southeastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, New Mexico, southern Arizona, southern California, and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It is also an introduced species in a few locations such as Bermuda and Hawaii. Its habitat includes woodlands, gardens, shrublands, and wetlands. The northern cardinal is a mid-sized songbird with a body length of . It has a distinctive crest on the head and a mask on the face which is black in the male and gray in the female. The male is a vibrant red, while the female is a reddish olive color. The northern cardinal is mainly granivorous, but also feeds on insects and fruit. The male behaves territorially, marking out his territory with song. During cour ...
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Woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, and the Gila woodpecker specialises in exploiting cacti. Members of this family are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for insect prey on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beaks, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds' eggs, small animals, tree sap, human scraps, and carrion. They usually nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes ...
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Gerber Scout Camp 1950 Logo
Gerber may refer to: Companies * Gerber Legendary Blades, a maker of consumer knives and tools headquartered in Oregon, USA * Gerber Products Company, manufacturer of baby products in Michigan, USA ** Gerber Life Insurance Company, affiliated with Gerber Products * Gerber Scientific, a company specializing in graphics and flexible material machinery in Connecticut, USA Places United States * Gerber, California * Gerber, Georgia, a ghost town * Gerber/Hart Library and Archives in Chicago, Illinois, USA * Gerber Scout Reservation, a summer camp for Boy Scouts, in Michigan, USA People * Gerber (surname) * Von Gerber Other * Gerber convention, an ace-asking convention in contract bridge * Gerber format, computer file format for fabricating printed circuit boards * Gerber failure criterion, an engineering stress-life method of estimating a structural material's fatigue life See also * Gerbera, a type of daisy *Gerbert (other) Gerbert is a Germanic given ...
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Merritt Lamb
Merritt Udell Lamb (April 4, 1892 – June 28, 1918) was the founder of scouting in West Michigan and the 13th Eagle Scout in the United States. Lamb was killed in action during the battle of Juvigny, France, on August 28, 1918. Lamb is currently buried in his hometown of Rockford, Michigan. Scouting career As a boy Merritt joined the Boy's Brigade The Boys' Brigade (BB) is an international interdenominational Christian youth organisation, conceived by the Scottish businessman Sir William Alexander Smith to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inceptio ...; By age 13 Merritt became captain of the brigade, and by age 18 Merritt convinced the members of his Brigade to disband and reform as a troop in the newly created Boy Scouts of America. By November 1910 the first unit in West Michigan, "Rockford Troop 1," was formed with Merritt Lamb as the first scoutmaster. A little less than a year after forming Rockford Troop 1, Merritt Lamb mov ...
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 10th-largest state by population, the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicization, gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe language, Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula of Michigan ...
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Camp Merritt Year Patch
Camp may refer to: Outdoor accommodation and recreation * Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site * a temporary settlement for nomads * Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to describe a cottage * Military camp * Summer camp, typically organized for groups of children or youth * Tent city, a housing facility often occupied by homeless people or protesters Areas of imprisonment or confinement * Concentration camp * Extermination camp * Federal prison camp, a minimum-security United States federal prison facility * Internment camp, also called a concentration camp, resettlement camp, relocation camp, or detention camp * Labor camp * Prisoner-of-war camp ** Parole camp guards its own soldiers as prisoners of war Gatherings of people * Camp, a mining community * Camp, a term commonly used in the titles of technology-related unconferences * Camp meeting, a Christian gathering which originated in 19th-centu ...
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Owasippe Scout Reservation
Owasippe Scout Reservation (OSR), located in Twin Lake, Michigan is the resident camp operated by the Pathway to Adventure Council (formerly Chicago Area Council) of Boy Scouts of America The Boy Scouts of America (BSA, colloquially the Boy Scouts) is one of the largest scouting organizations and one of the largest List of youth organizations, youth organizations in the United States, with about 1.2 million youth partici .... It began in 1911 as Camp White on of land on Crystal Lake donated by the White Lake Chamber of Commerce. It is the United States' oldest and longest continuously operating Boy Scout camp. Background At its peak of use the reservation covered and served over 10,000 Scouts per summer, but the overall decline in Scouting nationwide has seen yearly attendance fall to approximately 3,800 campers. Previous property consolidations has left the camp at in size, and the council was attempting to sell the camp but met with stiff resistance from the loca ...
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