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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks, PPs, and will check again to see if anyone adds something here.

22:15, nothing's wrong with being a park ranger!  I'm just trying to figure out what's out there--I overheard the guide saying something like, "well, (occupation, maybe S&R) works with the park rangers and then takes over if there's (whatever they were talking about, probably a lost hiker)."

And I realized that if I knew about the different jobs, and how they interact, I could talk to my DD about them.

Is there anything (along the lines of boy scouts, or even an adult-type groups that allows kids) that I could get her into right now?

I had her in girl scouts, but it was very different than boy scouts.  Great stuff, on how to run a business (which happens behind-the-scenes; all we see is them selling cookies) but my kid is sort of the perfect fit for the boy scouts in the whole camping, get your wilderness-skill-badge type of way.[/quote]

I don't know anything around here (I'm sure there is stuff but I didn't grow up here and my kids are too young yet). But have you thought about wilderness camps during the summer, if they are in your budget? Or if she is old enough, she could go as a counselor rather than a camper, which avoids the money issue? There are many, many out there. I worked for several years at this one in Vermont and adored it:  http://www.keewaydin.org/songadeewin-for-girls/about-songa/ Very outdoorsy focus; every camper does a long-distance hiking trip and a long-distance canoe trip. All girls but did not have the catty vibe that some girls-only camps do (and no competition for boys, either, since the boys camp is across the lake). Many of my fellow campers went into outdoors-related fields. Mostly out West. (I became a lawyer. But that wasn't the camp's fault. :))[/quote]

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