Scout Badge History, Venturing, Patch designing, World Scout Coins and more!
Most of these webpages were the first of their type. Several of the pages have now been copied by others but still bring you unique material. I hope that what I have done helps you become more knowledgeable in scouting for the benefit of our youth.
Quick links to popular pages
- Tips from the Trenches
- Keeping Informed
- Venturing Uniform & Patch Placement
- Examples of Venturing Bylaws
- Venturing Ceremonies
- Venturing Super-Activity Planning
- Venturing Awards Star
- Outdoor Tips for Female Scouters
- Venturing Conservation Awards
- Venturing Resource Links
- Frequently Asked Questions
- News from Crews
- History of Venturing and Venturing Mentors
- The Venturing Corps of Discovery is a grassroots movement to form a servant leadership society within Venturing that Joe Garrett and I are doing our best to promote by inducting many of the young adults we come in contact with through our Kodiak whitewater treks.
- The Eagle Scout Medals
- The Eagle Badge 1924 - 2012
- Boy Scout Cloth Rank Badges 1913 - 1925
- First Class Scoutmaster Badges 1911 - 1969
- Scouting's First Ranger Award 1944 - 1949
- Did you know? (various facts about scouting history)
- Illustrated History of BSA Square Knot Evolution and Private Issues by George Crowl
- Cub Scout & Den Mother Badges 1930 - 2010
- Silver Outranks Gold
- National & Private Issue Venturing Badges
- Scout Leader Pins by George Crowl
- Die Cut Rank Badges
- Commissioner Badges 1911 - 2010
- Venturing Square Knots
- Venturing Patches
- The Hiker's Patch Blanket - Patches that I designed
- Certificates for Recognition - Modified old scout certificates that are personalized.
- Centenary of Scouting
- Year of the Scout, 1982-1983
- Scout Coins from various countries
- Miscellaneous coin items
- Coin Collecting Merit Badges, 1938-present
- Good Luck Tokens (primarily good luck swastika tokens)
- As a long time scouter who has enjoyed hiking, I have acquired many patches and am now making them available at discount prices.
Venturing Magazine
www.venturingmag.org
Joe Garrett and I have taken over the site and plan to bring you bi-monthly updates.
Clip art that I have drawn or created and am making available to other scouters.
International Scouting Museum, Las Vegas
www.worldscoutingmuseum.org
San Gabriel Mountains Regional Conservancy
www.sgmrc.org
Glendora Community Conservancy
www.glendoraconservancy.org
Kodiak-BSA
www.sageventure.com/kodiak-bsa/
For over six years (2005-2011), I maintained the Kodiak website for BSA. With the end of the Venturing Division, BSA was not interested in having the site maintained so the domain expired. Some of the interesting part of the site are still available on the above link.
With the splitting of Old Baldy Council, Navajo Lodge is no longer but I am keeping the history that Bill Woodward maintained for the lodge. The lodge web site was a 2004 NOAC Honor Site recipient.
Venturing Crews I work with:
Over two million page views on sageventure.com since the beginning of 2004.
If you have a question or additional information, please feel free to email Craig Murray from my contact page.