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Paul Bunyan Woodsman Award
This Award is meant for Scouts BSA.
![Paul Bunyan Woodsman](/i/woodsman_card.jpg)
A scout that has earned his Totin' Chip can demonstrate advanced woodsman skills by teaching Totin' Chip skills to other scouts and completing a woodsman work project.
There is a wallet card and patch for backpack or blanket available.
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To earn this certification, study the Scouts BSA handbook and the Camping merit badge pamphlet, and demonstrate to your Scoutmaster or other qualified person the following:
- Explain the most likely hazards you may encounter while using woods tools listed in Requirement 5 and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, manage, and respond to these hazards.
- Show that you know first aid for injuries that could occur while using woods tools.
- Earn the Totin' Chip.
- Help a Scout or patrol earn the Totin' Chip, and demonstrate to them the value of proper woods tools use.
- Be familiar with the proper and safe use, maintenance, and storage of woods tools including:
- Ax
- Hatchet
- Loppers
- McLeod
- Pickax
- Pry bar
- Pulaski
- Saw
- Shovel
- Demonstrate proper use of four of the tools listed in Requirement 5.
- With unit leader approval and supervision, using woods tools, spend at least two hours doing one of the following conservation oriented projects:
- Clear trails or fire lanes.
- Trim a downed tree, cut into 4-foot lengths, and stack; make a brush pile with branches.
- Build a natural retaining wall or irrigation way to aid in a planned conservation effort.
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