Designed baseball caps and patches to identify Leave No Trace Trainers and Master Educators.

Sponsored a Leave No Trace Trainer course with 66 adult participants. Free Training kits and posters were provided to Order of the Arrow Chapter Leave No Trace Advisors.  Advisors were instructed to implement an outreach program for their local communities and schools to ensure nature awareness education opportunities were available to all interested parties.

The handbook “Teaching Leave No Trace” authored by Don Gale was published by the Boy Scouts of America as their official Leave No Trace publication.

Don received the William T. Hornaday Gold Medal, the oldest conservation award in the United States.  The Gold Medal had only been awarded to 24 recipients since its inception in 1914.       

Committee presented a report to Utah National Parks Council risk management committee indicating Leave No Trace had the potential of reducing risk and liability issues within the BSA.

The committee organized the LNT-BSA Guide program in conjunction with Bill Wagner, Bureau of Land Management Leave No Trace and Tread Lightly! Coordinator for Utah and Stew Jacobson, Bureau of Land Management National Leave No Trace and Tread Lightly! Coordinator.

Sponsored three Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers events in Utah which included the Boys Scouts of America, Girls Scout of the United States and public schools.

Don and Bill participated as staff on the Conservation Trail and The Outdoor Adventure Place Leave No Trace sites at the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree at Ft. A.P. Hill, Virginia.

Completed planning for LNT-BSA Guide program in conjunction with Scout councils from Portland, Alabama, and Washington D.C. with pilot program instituted.

Developed Timberline Junior Leader Training syllabus implementing Leave No Trace in all future week long training sessions.

Requested permission from Leave No Trace, Inc. to implement LNT BSA Guide  program.  Prior to request they had no provisions for a course less than 16 hours in length.  The request led them to develop the current workshop format that has proven so beneficial to all organizations teaching Leave No Trace.

Developed and implemented LNT BSA Guide program to be used at all Boy Scout resident camps in Utah.  Instructed camp directors and trained their staff so they could implement the program within their camps.

Developed and implemented nature awareness programs for church organization young women summer camps.

Provided Leave No Trace workshops for students enrolled in Brigham Young University Recreational Management programs.

Don and Bill attended the National Leave No Trace Coordinators meeting held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 

Added 3 additional councils to LNT BSA Guide pilot program.

The nature awareness and conservation message reached 76,751 people during 2001.