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Scouts erect sign for Eagle Project

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Scouts from Williams Boy Scout troops 140 and 138 constructing a visitor information sign at Walnut Creek. The scouts working on the sign are Derrick Johnson, Rafael Hernandez, Chris Shelton, Cody Davis (former scout), Colter Hooker, Trevor Adkins, and Mariano Rodriquez. Not shown are scout leaders Tom Hooker and Howard Jackson and Forest Service representative Elaine Zamora.

Submitted photo<br> Scouts from Williams Boy Scout troops 140 and 138 constructing a visitor information sign at Walnut Creek. The scouts working on the sign are Derrick Johnson, Rafael Hernandez, Chris Shelton, Cody Davis (former scout), Colter Hooker, Trevor Adkins, and Mariano Rodriquez. Not shown are scout leaders Tom Hooker and Howard Jackson and Forest Service representative Elaine Zamora.

WILLIAMS - On Nov. 5-6, scouts from Williams Boy Scout troops 140 and 138 assembled at the site of the former Ranger Station at Walnut Creek on the Prescott National Forest. The occasion was a volunteer project to erect a forest visitor information sign as part of Colter Hooker's Eagle Project. Walnut Creek is located in a somewhat remote part of the forest 35 miles south of Seligman and about 50 miles from the current Ranger Station in Chino Valley. The grounds with the one-time rangers house and station barn built in the 1930s is now the Walnut Creek Center for Education and Research under partnership with the US Forest Service.

One of the requirements for a Boy Scout to advance to the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest Boy Scout rank, is to organize and perform a Leadership Service Project. This project involved building the structure to support a commercial metal and glass display using cut juniper logs and redwood. A fence walk through and a log seat were also constructed as well as making fence repairs.

The scouts and leaders participating in the project camped under the walnut trees with a clear sky and bright stars for one night. Everyone had a good time enjoying the fall colors, cooking dutch oven meals, eating buttermilk-chocolate chip pancakes, playing with the local dogs and swinging on the big swing under a walnut tree. They all worked hard to complete the project just after sunset on Nov. 6.


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