Troop One / Great Trail Council scouting

09/27/2026

A Little Scouting Invitation

Greetings, friends of Troop 1 and Great Trail Council!

If you have a minute today, we’d love it if you’d give our page a like and share it with someone you think might enjoy Scouting — a parent, a potential Scout, or just someone who might be curious about what we’re all about.

I saw the sweetest post from a Scout Mom the other day. She talked about how Scouting had helped her son grow, but also how much it had helped _her_ grow along the way.

When my child started out in Scouting, I was a single mom. And,, I can tell you firsthand what a gift this program was to me. My child is now an Eagle Scout and grown but… I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to repay the “ticket” for all the friendships, memories, adventures, and lessons we’ve gotten from being part of Troop 1, Akron, Ohio.

So today, just share the adventure with someone you care about. You never know where it might lead. 💚✅

09/25/2026

You can choose Scouting and sports and friends and family. Join scouting today to learn time management cooperation, and life skills.

08/30/2026

We lost a great Scouter. Someone who supported our troop and was a grand mentor to our young Scouts.
One of the things Houston always used to ask a youth was, “Where is your compass?” He wasn’t referring to a physical compass. He was talking about your moral compass. He always wanted Scouts to remember what it was, where it was, and how important it was to being a Scout.

Houston has now gone to his rest, well deserved. He lived his life as a marked man, a Scout, an Eagle Scout. So many of us were fortunate to know him, learn from him, and simply be in his orbit.

We will miss him, but we know he has gone to his just reward.

Rest well, Houston. You made a difference in the lives of many, and your compass will continue to point the way.

View Houston Roderick Morgan Sr.'s obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

08/25/2026

How much space do you have for camping equipment in your house?

08/06/2026

Head to the forest! Go camping.

🚨BREAKING: A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest can strengthen your immune system for a full month.

Immunologist Qing Li of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo took 12 men on a three-day forest trip consisting of slow walks with no special breathing exercises or set routes.

Blood tests afterward showed a clear surge in natural killer cells — the immune cells that help the body fight viruses and cancerous cells.

The elevated levels were still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release airborne compounds called phytoncides as a natural defense. When people breathe them in, these compounds appear to activate immune cells.

Li’s research suggests that one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated throughout the year.

Sometimes the best medicine does not require a prescription — just time among the trees.

07/29/2026

jamboree on the air, talk to Scouts from all over the world.

07/29/2026

Learn how to tie the friendship knot here:

Every year on Aug. 1, everyone involved in Scouting is asked to wear their neckerchiefs in public. It’s called Scout Scarf Day, a time to proudly make Scouting visible wherever you are.

07/27/2026

America’s largest aquifer is running dry.

The High Plains Aquifer, commonly called the Ogallala, stretches beneath parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.

It covers roughly 175,000 square miles and supplies water to farms, communities and industries across the Great Plains. It is also the largest aquifer in North America.

For decades, farmers have pumped groundwater from the aquifer to irrigate corn, wheat, cotton and other crops and to support livestock production.

But in many areas, water is being withdrawn far faster than rainfall can replace it.

Recharge varies widely. In parts of Texas, the aquifer naturally gains as little as 0.024 inches of water per year. A recent USGS study in northwestern Oklahoma estimated average recharge at about 0.63 inches per year, while groundwater withdrawals remained substantial.

Large-scale irrigation began around the 1940s and 1950s. Since then, groundwater levels have fallen by more than 150 feet in some heavily pumped areas.

The aquifer is not drying evenly. Some northern sections remain comparatively healthy, while parts of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma have suffered severe declines.

As the water table falls, farmers must drill deeper wells and use more energy to pump less water. Eventually, some wells can no longer deliver enough water to irrigate crops economically.

Farmers may respond by irrigating smaller areas, switching to less water-intensive crops or converting fields to rain-fed agriculture.

That could reduce overall production and make harvests more vulnerable to drought.

Irrigation normally protects crops when rainfall fails. Without reliable groundwater, a dry year could cause sharper losses, affecting supplies of grain, livestock feed, meat and dairy products.

Learn more:
"The Largest US Groundwater Supply Is Running Out." Newsweek

07/25/2026

Denmark World Jamboree.