Pelotes Island Nature Preserve
Service Projects
Boy Scouts
Pelotes Island Nature Preserve is a great
place to complete projects for Boy Scout Eagle
Scout Awards, merit badges or just to
volunteer your time! All participants who complete at least 2 hours of service will receive a Pelotes
Island Service Badge.
We can help you design a project that meets your award & badge
requirements or you can choose from the following topics:
Kids Helping the
Environment
- Trash clean-up at
the Preserve (all ages)
- Building and
donating nesting boxes for wood ducks, bats, small birds, etc. (12 years old and up)
- Weeding, watering,
and planting in our wildlife gardens (all ages)
Kids Helping the Preserve
- Touch-up painting
and cleaning at our nature centers and on our trails (12 years old and up)
- Native hut
thatching (12 years old and up)
Kids Helping Kids
- Cutting leather
strips, raffia, rolling clay, and making dolls for our Native American program (8 years
old and up)
- Cutting paper and
materials for our solar and bird programs (8 years old and up)
- Painting boxes for
our solar program (10 years old and up)
- Collecting acorns
for our Native American program (all ages – available only in the Fall)
- Making plaster
tracks for our animal program (12 years old and up)
- Helping to create
archaeology practice dig sites for our Native American program (12 years old and up)
For more information, call the Preserve staff at
(904) 665-8856
or email cooptd@jea.com
Click here to check
out a past Eagle project.
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