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National Projects and Opportunities
The LGTTL Program offers a range of national projects and opportunities for Girl Scouts, including our two featured patches: the Get with the Land patch and the Water Drop patch. Both patch programs offer Girl Scouts opportunities to expand their knowledge of the environment and their surroundings, while having a lot of fun! We encourage troops and councils to take advantage of the projects on this page!
Get with the Land Patch
By earning this patch girls will learn about the Linking Girls to the Land partnership, work
side by side with a federal or state natural resource agency professional and choose an
environmental project or activity in which to participate or complete. Get with the Land Patch information is available online
on the GSUSA website. Patches can also be ordered online.
Download the Patch Criteria (2 pp., 385K, about PDF)
Access the Get with the Land Downloadable Recognition Certificate
Updated Water Drop Patch Project 
The project offers learning opportunities to Girl Scouts in watersheds, non point source pollution,
wetlands, and groundwater/drinking water. The Water Drop Patch Project Manual can be viewed and downloaded online.
Copies of the booklet are also available FREE by calling the National Service Center for Environmental
Publications at: 1-800-490-9198. Patches can be ordered via the GSUSA Web site.
The Nature of Learning Grants Program: A Linking Girls to the Land Opportunity
The Nature of Learning is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System’s newcommunity-based environmental education initiative. The Nature of Learning grants provide financial
and technical assistance to help Girl Scout Councils and their communities use National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor
classrooms to promote a greater understanding of local conservation issues. Any Girl Scout Council can partner with a national wildlife refuge and apply for funding in order to develop a natural resource conservation or education project.
Linking Girls to the Land Council Grants
Any Girl Scout Adult Volunteer, Council Staff Member, Campus Girl Scout, or Girl Scout aged 14-17 who has full support of her council can apply for funding in order to develop a natural resource conservation or education project along with a federal or state natural resource conservation agency.
GSUSA Leave No Trace Master Educator Scholarships
Partial scholarships from the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor
Ethics are available to Girl Scout
adults who are already LNT Trainers
and wish to become Master Educators. Leave No Trace Master Educator Course information is online
or contact Leave No Trace via email.
Recipients are responsible for integrating Leave No Trace practices
within their councils, training LNT Trainers and doing Awareness
Workshops.
Take Pride in America ®
Participate in this national partnership that aims to encourage, support, and recognize volunteers who work to improve our public parks, forests, grasslands and wildlife refuges, as well as our cultural and historic sites, local playgrounds and other recreation areas. Take Pride is an excellentopportunity for Girl Scouts to demonstrate local pride, initiative, and stewardship by volunteering onpublic lands. Unique Girl Scout opportunities are in development.
Wyoming’s Wildlife Wonders STUDIO 2BSM destination 
This travel opportunity teaches Girl Scout partner teams ages 14-17 about the ecology and
natural history of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The week is filled with hiking, canoeingand trekking through the Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest. Teensobserve wildlife such as antelope, bison, coyotes and ospreys, participate in a national bird-banding effort, and keep track of their ecological discoveries in their homemade naturalist journal. Teen partners
share their experience with their friends, family council and community by developing an environmental
action or research project to complete at home.
USFWS Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program
Girl Scouts of all ages can participate in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design
Program, a dynamic arts curriculum designed to teach wetlands and waterfowl conservation.
Girl Scouts who participate in the program complete a Junior Duck Stamp design as their visual ”term paper,” allowing girls to use visual
arts, rather than verbal communication to articulate what they have learned. Contestants enter their designs in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest at the state level for a chance to win a number of prizes in four different age categories. All State Best of Show designs are then sent to the national contest. Email USFWS Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program or call (703) 358-2000.
For more information on Linking Girls to the Land programs and opportunities contact Jodi Stewart at Girl Scouts of the USA, linkinggirls@girlscouts.org or 1-800-223-0624 x8076.
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