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1 - 16 BEARS AND CAMPERS New York State harbors the second largest black bear population in the Eastern United States in three ranges. By far the largest is the Adirondack bear range (9300 square miles) inhabited by approximately 3,600 bears. Basically an opportunist, the black bear takes advantage of almost any food source that is readily available. While the black bear has an innate aversion to humans, the attraction of man’s food and garbage has overridden the human avoidance tendency in certain individual bears. This has resulted is situations of bear-human conflict. Although some people have experienced property damage and physical injury in comparatively rare instances, the bear has been the real loser. Many bears have been killed in retribution; regardless if they were the foraging offenders or not, while others have been physically abused. Black bears no longer fearful of people are a product of man’s carelessness and indifferent attitude. Camping in bear range is an example of a potential bear-human conflict. People who camp in bear range bring food and generate garbage. Camper’s food and garbage attract black bears. By eliminating food and garbage, bears will not forage for food and scraps within the campsite. The following recommendations for camp management and camper conduct will reduce potential bear problems: 1) Remove the garbage from patrol area to garbage collection points immediately following every meal and by 7:00 PM after the supper meal. 2) Use plastic bags, which are provided for temporary garbage storage. 3) Strictly forbid storage of any food, e.g., candy bars, fruit, etc., in the camper’s tents. Strictly forbid overnight storage of any food in patrol boxes. 4) Strictly forbid burning of any food scraps, garbage or cooking grease. 5) Strictly forbid burying of food scraps and/or garbage, including pouring cooking grease on the ground. 6) Strictly forbid feeding, baiting, approaching or harassment of bears by campers or adults. 7) Return all leftover food, e.g., peanut butter, jams, etc., in bear buckets to food pickup points before 7:00 PM. Store foods between breakfast and lunch, and lunch to dinner, in bear buckets. Also, at Sabattis thoroughly wash all tables and patrol boxes at least once daily following each meal. Use sanitized rinse water if possible.
1 - 17 ASC Health and Safety The Health lodges are staffed with fully trained medical professionals 24 hours a day. In addition, the camp maintains first aid equipment in each program area. We have ambulance response teams and a helicopter landing area for major medical emergencies. Physical Examinations All Scouts and adults are required to have a physical examination within one year prior to coming to camp and must have their physician fill out the Annual BSA Health and Medical Record Form 34605. This is for both an In camp stay and Trek participants of any age. ***For Youth All prescription and/or over the counter medication MUST have a written permission form H-1 approved by your physician in order to dispense. Form H – 1 can be found on our web site cnyscouts.org. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ALL MEDICALS BE SENT TO THE COUNCIL OFFICE OR CAMP 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO YOUR ARRIVAL. Collect all medical forms prior to leaving for camp and turn remaining medicals that were not sent in ahead of time over to the office staff when you arrive in camp. Make sure each medical form is dated and signed by the physician and parent or legal guardian, and has the dates of inoculations on the form. You will be asked to leave camp if these medical forms are not correct. If you are going to Sabattis you can mail your forms to the council office by June 15th. After June 15 th please send the forms directly to Sabattis Scout Reservation. You will save a substantial amount of time on the check in procedure if you do this. At check-in you must also report any medical changes not noted on the forms. Copies of all required medical forms are available at the Scout Service Center and from the council website at http://cnyscouts.org. Special Note: It is New York State Department of Health policy that each camp retains one copy of your medical form for a period of 30 years. Please make two copies of your medical form, one for your records and one for the camp. We will not return any medical forms that are turned in and we are unable to make copies of them in camp or ones that were previously turned in. Emergency Phone Numbers Sabattis Scout Reservation Tupper Lake Health Center 1-518-359-9283 1-518-359-7000 Adirondack Medical Center Clifton-Fine Hospital 1-315-848-3351 1-518-891-4141
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