Warner to receive volunteer award from Boy Scouts

On Dec. 10, Davey Warner, Outdoor Leadership coordinator, accepted the 2009 Most Important Volunteer award in the “Connecting Land to People” category on behalf of the Order of the Arrow Wilderness Voyage Program of the Boy Scouts of America. Warner received the award at the U.S. Forest Service Region 9’s annual honor awards ceremony in Milwaukee, Wis. He has spent the past five summers working for the Boy Scouts and currently serves as the Wilderness Voyage program’s director.

The OA Wilderness Voyage program provides Boy Scouts ages 16-20 from all of over the country the opportunity to spend two weeks in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness or in the Quetico Provincial Park. They spend their first week repairing centuries-old portage trails and their second week on a wilderness canoe trek.

Region 9 of the US Forest Service encompasses 20 states and 40 percent of the population of the U.S.