LNT Camp Lead responsibilities
1. Ensure everyone in your camp understands Firefly’s Leave No Trace guidelines.
Communicate this information to your camp members before the start of the event, and make sure individuals in your camp comply with those guidelines. (Please please please look around for potentially MOOPy costume items!)
2. Have a camp trash plan.
If group meals or any of your events will create trash, where will that go?
What (if anything) counts as communal trash rather than personal trash?
Who will be responsible for taking any communal trash off-site after the event?
3. Lead daily MOOP sweeps and bring any Lost & Found items to MOMM.
Lead (or designate volunteers from your camp to lead) daily MOOP sweeps of any spaces in your camp where you host guests or hold events. Please complete your daily MOOP sweep before 2 pm each day.
If you identify and Lost & Found items during your MOOP sweep, please bring them down to the central Lost & Found, which will again be MOMM (The Museum of Modern MOOP), located just up the path from upper parking. As a backup, we’ll send Lost & Found Heroes around to pick up items from 2-4 pm Wed-Sat and from 9-11 am Sun.
Every year, a lot of items get dropped off at the central Lost & Found during exodus, or handed off to the LNT core from theme camps after the conclusion of the event. This makes it hard to get items back to their owners during the event, which is why we’re hoping to develop systems to funnel lost items to MOMM throughout the week. Our long-term goal is to make our Lost & Found hero volunteer shifts unnecessary by having camps bring items to MOMM themselves.
To facilitate this, we recommend that you designate a “Camp Lost & Found” container to collect items that guests leave in your camp. You’ll also want to protect camp members’ belongings from getting swept up in the MOOP sweep; ideas for this include
- Designating specific spaces where people can safely leave their personal belongings, separate from general events areas
- Leaving at least an hour between the end of the MOOP sweep and the time when items will be taken to MOMM so camp members can check that none of their items got swept
- Providing labels and sharpies to encourage people to put their name on anything they might accidentally leave out
4. Lead a final MOOP sweep of your camp during Exodus.
Your last responsibility as camp LNT lead is to ensure that your camp has left no trace on its designated area. To do this, lead a final line sweep across your entire area (everything you roped off during Placement). Plan this for after most tents and infrastructure have been broken down, but before everyone has left — line sweeps are much faster and more thorough when you have more people!
Don’t forget to look up in trees and under ground cover. People often forget bungee cords, tent stakes, and other items that aren’t easy to spot.
If you will not be the last person at your camp, please make sure you delegate this task to a trusted campmate. The LNT core will reach out to both you and your camp leads if we find excessive MOOP left in your area.