New Alsace Conservation Club Taking Registration for Summer Conservation Camp

Camp fee will be paid by New Alsace Conservation Club if you're accepted.

(New Alsace, Ind.) – The New Alsace Conservation Club each year raises funds to send children in the 5th and 6th grad to the Karl E. Kelly Conservation Youth Camp.

This year, there are extra openings available for the camp, which is run by the Indiana Conservation Officers Organization (ICOO).

The camp experience is open to any boy or girl that has completed the 5th or 6th grade in the preceding school year. Camp fee is $350 per camper and includes all meals, lodging and needed equipment for camp.

The $350 fee is covered by the New Alsace Conservation Club for those selected students.

All camp registration must be coordinated with Club Secretary Dale Back. Over the past 18 years, the New Alsace Conservation Club has sent over 132 children to this camp.

The registration deadline is February 1. Click here for the signup sheet.

More details about the camp are provided below.

The summer camp program educates youth about conservation of natural resources by:

• Offering certification in the Outdoor Education programs of the DNR Law Enforcement Division.
• Introducing campers to outdoor life sports which will teach appreciation for natural resources and cultivate respect for the Indiana Conservation Officers that protect those resources.
• Each camper will take part in or have access to the following:
• Certification in Boater education and Hunter's Education Certification
• Range Day (firearms, bows, tomahawks, etc.)
• Water day at Raccoon Lake with the DNR SCUBA team, canoe safety class, air boat and jet ski rides
• Canoe Trip down the Sugar Creek
• 7 day/6 night overnight Camp running the third week of June each year at Ross Camp, W. Lafayette, IN