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Merit Badges on Required List for Eagle

Cloth badges with silver border, Boy Scout, right sleeve, position 4 limited to six, merit badge sash no limit. See list of merit badges for specific number.

  • Camping - No. 10302
  • Citizenship in the Community - No. 10303
  • Citizenship in the Nation - No. 10304
  • Citizenship in the World - No. 10305
  • Communications - No. 10306
  • Cycling - No. 10527
  • Emergency Preparedness - No. 10307
  • Environmental Science - No. 10308
  • Family Life - No. 10316
  • First Aid - No. 10309
  • Hiking - No. 10548
  • Lifesaving - No. 10310
  • Personal Fitness - No. 10312
  • Personal Management - No. 10311
  • Swimming - No. 10315

Optional Merit Badges

Cloth badges with green border, Boy Scout, right sleeve, position 4 limited to six, merit badge sash no limit. See accompanying list of merit badges for specific number.

  • American Business - No. 10502
  • American Cultures - No. 10503
  • American Heritage - No. 10504
  • American Labor - No. 10554
  • Animal Science - No. 10505
  • Archaeology No. 10614
  • Archery - No. 10506
  • Architecture No. 10507
  • Art - No. 10508
  • Astronomy - No. 10509
  • Athletics - No. 10510
  • Auto Mechanics No. 10609
  • Aviation - No. 10512
  • Backpacking No. 10513
  • Basketry - No. 10514
  • Bird Study - No. 10516
  • Bugling - No. 10518
  • Canoeing - No. 10519
  • Chemistry - No. 10520
  • Cinematography No. 10521
  • Climbing - No. 10522
  • Coin Collecting - No. 10523
  • Collections No. 10610
  • Composites No. 10623
  • Computers No. 10526
  • Cooking - No. 10525
  • Crime Prevention - No. 10613
  • Dentistry - No. 10528
  • Disabilities Awareness No. 10547
  • Dog Care - No. 10529
  • Drafting - No. 10530
  • Electricity - No. 10531
  • Electronics - No. 10532
  • Energy - No. 10533
  • Engineering No. 10534
  • Entrepreneurship No. 10620
  • Farm Mechanics No. 10535
  • Fingerprinting No. 10536
  • Fire Safety - No. 10537
  • Fish and Wildlife Management No. 10539
  • Fishing - No. 10538
  • Fly Fishing - No. 10579
  • Forestry - No. 10540
  • Gardening No. 10541
  • Genealogy No. 10542
  • Geology - No. 10543
  • Golf - No. 10545
  • Graphic Arts No. 10546
  • Home Repairs No. 10549
  • Horsemanship No. 10550
  • Indian Lore No. 10551
  • Insect Study No. 10552
  • Journalism - No. 10553
  • Landscape Architecture No. 10555
  • Law - No. 10556
  • Leatherwork No. 10557
  • Mammal Study - No. 10559
  • Medicine - No. 10612
  • Metalwork - No. 10562
  • Model Design and Building No. 10563
  • Motorboating No. 10564
  • Music - No. 10565
  • Nature - No. 10566
  • Nuclear Science - No. 10621
  • Oceanography No. 10567
  • Orienteering No. 10568
  • Painting - No. 10569
  • Pets - No. 10570
  • Photography No. 10571
  • Pioneering - No. 10572
  • Plant Science No. 10573
  • Plumbing - No. 10574
  • Pottery - No. 10575
  • Public Health No. 10576
  • Public Speaking - No. 10578
  • Pulp and Paper - No. 10577
  • Radio - No. 10580
  • Railroading No. 10581
  • Reading - No. 10582
  • Reptile and Amphibian Study No. 10500
  • Rifle Shooting No. 10584
  • Rowing - No. 10585
  • Safety - No. 10313
  • Salesmanship No. 10586
  • Scholarship No. 10587
  • Sculpture - No. 10588
  • Shotgun Shooting - No. 10589
  • Skating - No. 10591A
  • Small-Boat Sailing - No. 10593
  • Snow Sports No. 10592A
  • Soil and Water Conservation No. 10594
  • Space Exploration No. 10595
  • Sports - No. 10314
  • Stamp Collecting - No. 10596
  • Surveying - No. 10597
  • Textile - No. 10598
  • Theater - No. 10599
  • Traffic Safety No. 10600
  • Truck Transportation No. 10601
  • Veterinary Medicine - No. 10602
  • Waterskiing No. 10603
  • Weather - No. 10604
  • Whitewater No. 10605
  • Wilderness Survival - No. 10606
  • Wood Carving No. 10607
  • Woodwork - No. 10608

Wilderness Survival Merit Badge



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Wilderness Survival Merit Badge

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January, 2008

Requirements for the Wilderness Survival merit badge:

  1. Show that you know first aid for and how to prevent injuries or illnesses likely to occur in backcountry settings, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, blisters, insect stings, tick bites, and snakebites.
  2. From memory, list the seven priorities for survival in a backcountry or wilderness location. Explain the importance of each one with your counselor.
  3. Describe ways to avoid panic and maintain a high level of morale when lost, and explain why this is important.
  4. Describe the steps you would take to survive in the following conditions:
    1. Cold and snowy
    2. Wet (forest)
    3. Hot and dry (desert)
    4. Windy (mountains or plains)
    5. Water (ocean, lake, or river)
  5. Put together a personal survival kit and be able to explain how each item in it could be useful. (Sample Kit)
  6. Using three different methods (other than matches), build and light three fires.
  7. Do the following:
    1. Show five different ways to attract attention when lost.
    2. Demonstrate how to use a signal mirror.
    3. Describe from memory five ground-to-air signals and tell what they mean.
  8. Improvise a natural shelter. For the purpose of this demonstration, use techniques that have little negative impact on the environment. Spend a night in your shelter.
  9. Explain how to protect yourself from insects, reptiles, and bears.
  10. Demonstrate three ways to treat water found in the outdoors to prepare it for drinking.
  11. Show that you know the proper clothing to wear in your area on an overnight in extremely hot weather and in extremely cold weather.
  12. Explain why it usually is not wise to eat edible wild plants or wildlife in a wilderness survival situation.

Leatherwork


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