Scouting, Volume 60, Number 4, May-June 1972 Page: 54
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Battling Drug Abuse
In its continuing concern for the needs of
American youth, the Boy Scouts of America
began a nationwide fight against the drug
menace in the fall of 1971. Called Operation
Reach, the campaign is an action plan, not
merely another educational program on
drugs.
Essentially, Operation Reach seeks to
stem the drug tide by providing answers to
the clear needs of youth for good friends,
free and easy communication with their
parents and peers and an understanding
of themselves. It attacks the drug problem
by reaching toward the heart of the matter
—why young people are prone to drugs.
Operation Reach is designed to open
communications channels between youth
and parents and between youth and youth
and to offer potential drug users opportuni-
ties for real highs through friendships and
activities rather than by the spurious and
short-lived highs of drug abuse.
High Adventure
A Scout's natural habitat is the outdoors.
From the Cub Scout's backyard camp-out
and Webelos father-and-son overnight to
the rugged pioneer camping and hiking of
the older Scout and Explorer, millions of
boys and young men enjoyed the outdoors
during 1971. Many Scout councils opened
their camps to non-Scouts and subsidized
camping by disadvantaged Scouts.
Highlight of this adventuresome year was
the XIII World Jamboree in Japan. Among
the 23,000 Scouts from the free world were
7,806 from the Boy Scouts of America. De-
spite buffeting by a typhoon, the jamboree
was a great success.
The Philmont Scout Ranch and Explorer
Base in New Mexico attracted a record of
14,314 Scouts and Explorers, including 336
whose fees were paid by the Waite Phillips
endowment. The Region 7 Canoe Base in
Minnesota and the Charles L. Sommers
Canoe Base in Wisconsin also were near
capacity for their wilderness canoe voyages.
A new high-adventure experience for
members of the Boy Scouts of America be-
came a reality during 1971 with the opening
of the 4-million acre Maine-Matagamon Na-
tional Wilderness Base. Beginning on a
small scale, Maine-Matagamon served 300
young people and adults with hiking and
canoeing treks through wilderness lakes,
streams, and mountains. The base was
founded on a new concept of cooperation
between the state, the lumbering industry,
private individuals and the Boy Scouts of
America. Capacity will expand to 600 voy-
ageurs in 1972, and a sellout is already as-
sured.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 60, Number 4, May-June 1972, periodical, May 1972; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353693/m1/74/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.