A highlight for the Beaver County Conservation District education program every year is being able to host the Beaver County Sportsmen's Conservation Camp for 2 days on District grounds. The Beaver County Sportsmen's Conservation camp is a weeklong camp for kids ages 12-15 to learn about nature, conservation, hunting, trapping, boating, fishing, water rescue, compass navigation, dog training, and so much more. The goal of camp is to expose kids to as many opportunities in nature as possible throughout the week in order to keep kids outside and involved with future conservation efforts. This year there were 42 kids that attended the camp. They stayed at Group Camp 2 at Raccoon Creek State Park and had a variety of guest speakers come each day to educate and interact with the kids. Two big days for the campers are the days they get to come to the Beaver County Conservation District Grounds. Day one is Wednesday. On this day the District's front lawn is transformed into gundog training grounds. Duck blinds are set up, goose decoys are set out, the pavilion picnic tables are lined up to seat children and hold hold...continue reading.