Youth Rangers 2016
Check out the adventures and hard work of our 2016 Youth Rangers. They have been very busy bracken bashing along the Slieve Gullion Famine wall walk, weeding and clearing out St. Jude’s church, Camlough, before planting it with wildflower seeds. They have also learned first aid and bushcraft survival skills, to name just a few. Throughout the programme they have also been discovering all about the diverse landscape and rich heritage of the Ring of Gullion and sharing their experiences with us and one another, all the while working towards the Explorer level of their John Muir Award.
If you’d like to read more about the Youth Rangers adventures, in their own words, visit our Projects page to read their daily blog.
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- Getting to know you games
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- Environmental improvement aka litter lift
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- Map reading skills
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- Before Work
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- Before work
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- Before work
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- Before work
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- Clearing ivy and bramble roots
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- Clearing brambles
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- Ground clearing completed, ready for re-seeding
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- After work
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- Clearing a path to graves
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- Removing a bramble patch
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- Clearing a bramble patch
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- Cleared bramble patch
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- After work
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- Clearing a path to the graves
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- After work
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- Collecting grass seed for the cleared ground
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- Before work starts
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- Clearing the ground for wildflowers
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- Laying out squares for planting
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- Scattering wild flower seeds
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- Church cleared and planted with wildflowers
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- Preparing the ground outside for wildflowers
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- Before work began
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- Before work began
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- A hard earned break
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- Grasshopper
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- Slieve Gullion Summit
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- Gathering ingredients for bread and pine needle tea
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- Bell heather
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- Pine needles for tea and birch bark for fire tinder
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- Wood sorrell
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- Blayeberries / Blaeberries – native wild blue berries
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- Ringlet butterfly / Aphantopus hyperantus
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- Dry pine cones for the fire
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- Birch back for fire lighting
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- The boys’ shelter
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- The girls’ shelter
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- Campfire
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- Bread making
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- Greywacke – An excellent rock for building roads
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- Getting kitted out for climbing
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- Pádraig
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- Tiernan
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- Orlagh
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- James
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- Conor
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- Cliodhna
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- Órlaith
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- Paddy
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- Olivia
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- Alison
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- James dancing in the rain
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- Weeding needed
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- Certificate presentation
