https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-camp-study-update-ten-promising-practices-healthy-camp

Since the outbreak of H1N1 during the summer of 2009, camps have been diligently updating their health and safety protocols and practices for the management of communicable diseases. By accessing and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-orient-health-center-staff

Everyone knows that camp staff need orientation to effectively do their job. Why, then, do health center staff often report that they don’t get any? The team hired for your health center certainly...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/putting-sustainability-practice-simple-strategies-implement-camp

Next to national, state, and municipal parks, camps manage some of our most important natural resources. Camp settings not only introduce children to natural resources, build their skills to recreate...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/role-skill-building

Building Camps That Care About Kids — Third in a Series of Four Articles Maybe Walt Whitman was on to something. When we think of the very best ways to help young people grow into...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-culture-sensitive-are-your-camp-health-services

Campers and staff come from a variety of backgrounds. An urban-savvy camper becomes the bunkmate to a youth raised on a rural farm; two girls — one from a small mountain village and the other from a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/what-did-winter-do-your-camp-property

The winter of 2018–2019 was one that many hope is not repeated soon! Winds, torrential rains, snow, and even drought were prevalent. As you prepare for the upcoming summer, it is important to pay as...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-much-wood-could-woodchuck-chuck-would-you-know-how-decipher-tag-lumber

A decade ago, the United States market voluntarily abandoned the long-standing wood preservative and treatment method where an arsenic and copper compound was forced into the fibers of the lumber....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/whatever-weather

One of my fondest camp memories is of sitting in a large platform tent with my other new friends during a torrential downpour. Like most suburban kids I knew, I had long been schooled to come in the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/safe-sanitary-water

It's been years since we talked about potable water systems in Building Principles, and with opening camp just around the corner, this seems like an ideal time to revisit some of the key points that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/going-green-camp

What if every camp in America united behind a new model for sustainability to lead a national movement for pro-environmental change? “Going Green” is a vague and intimidating term. We all know we...