On November 21, Lois Carpenter and I, along with our moms, participated in the Canon birdhouse conservation project. During that time, we planted a native flower garden and installed birdhouses for bluebirds and ducks at the Canon plant in Newport News. Mr. David Singletary arranged this conservation project along with people at Canon, and taught us about how something like this could be organized as an Eagle project, and told us about other kinds of conservation Eagle projects that he has seen. We got to work with Master Naturalists to plant native plants that attract and feed wildlife, and before we left, we saw a butterfly already at one of the flowers we planted.

Lois and I were the only Scouts from 242B and 242G, and there were about 20 scouts from other troops participating.
Bryan Higinbotham, webmaster Troop 242B