Any Wood Badgers out there?

[Tatonka]

I recently posted a picture of me in my scout uniform and a kilt and by doing so found out there are a few Wood Badgers out there. Just wondering if there are any others.

I am a Buffalo from SR-492

I also have the distinction of being the only one in my council with a tattoo of my critter!

[Spartan]

That's a great tattoo.

Thanks for starting this thread. As I noted in the other thread:

I used to be an Eagle..... NC-146 (1983) (Medicine Mountain, Black Hills South Dakota)

and many more as a staff member until......

Course Director C-11L-95 (Camp Wilderness, Minnesota - Northern Lights Council) -- so now four beads

BTW, we had trouble with the Buffalo Patrol in an area of the country where they are Bison.

[Tatonka]

BTW, we had trouble with the Buffalo Patrol in an area of the country where they are Bison.

I think that is a story I would like to hear!

[McNulty]

I am a fox. A good ol fox too, and when I'm finished foxing, I don't know what I'll do. Back to Gilwell, happy land. Got my first set of woggles back in 1985 and have gotten two more since.
Nulty

[Spartan]

I think that is a story I would like to hear!

It's not a big deal. The WB course that I attended was in the Black Hills of South Dakota "where the buffalo roam." Most people in South Dakota realize that (I believe) what we call buffalo are not buffalo but bison. The mascot for North Dakota State University is the Bison.

[EagleJCS]

I used to be a Bear... and I can BEAR NO MORE!!! SR-211 (1997). Finished my ticket in mid '99 (kinda sqeaked in). Side note: The Course Director was once a leader in the troop I was once SPL in.

Another side note: I went to the World Scout Jamboree in '07 (the 100th anniversary of Scouting), and was originally signed up to be International Service Team (IST). Guess where I was to be assigned - Gilwell!!! I wound up accompanying the Kentucky contingent troop as a last minute replacement (got the call the Friday before we left on Monday) for a leader who became ill, so I didn't get to work there. We did visit for a day during the Jamboree, so I can say I've been there - Happy Land!

[Sir William]

I used to be a beaver and a good ol' beaver too!

National Capital Area Council, 82-80.

Three beads for me. I picked up a new set when I visited Gilwell in 2006 made from a very old tree on the property.

One of these days I'd like to get a McLaren kilt to wear to Scouting events.

[Tatonka]

One of these days I'd like to get a McLaren kilt to wear to Scouting events.

I just got the email confirmation from Jerry! I will have a MacLaren kilt in a couple of days. I can not believe how bad I am jonesing already. My wife is just laughing and pointing at me pacing around the house.

[O'Callaghan]

Not me, but my wife has her wood badge. I was last active in scouting as a cub scout, LOL! I did go to Gilwell, though!

I offered to buy her a Maclaren kilted skirt, but she only wants one in her clan tartan (Davidson).

Actually, any scout can wear the Maclaren tartan, it's only the scarf with that little swatch on it that you have to have your wood badge to wear. Even having been a cub scout should entitle me to wear Maclaren, I suppose. Of course, a Maclaren kilt is only scout uniform in Scotland, or elsewhere in the UK if you are of Scottish descent. The right to wear it and the uniform rules are two different things.

[EagleJCS]

Actually, any scout can wear the Maclaren tartan, it's only the scarf with that little swatch on it that you have to have your wood badge to wear. Even having been a cub scout should entitle me to wear Maclaren, I suppose. Of course, a Maclaren kilt is only scout uniform in Scotland, or elsewhere in the UK if you are of Scottish descent. The right to wear it and the uniform rules are two different things.

O'Callahan, I agree that the right to wear and the uniform rules are two diffeerent animals, but I do want to clarify.

I have it on authority from several Scottish Scouts I met at the 2007 World Scout Jamboree (wearing Scott, MacKenzie, Bell, Stewart, and Black Watch, among others) that the Scottish Scouts wear kilts in any tartan they care to (mostly cast-offs from the hire shops, their granda's, or whatever they can scrounge), usually in their family tartan if they can get it. Usually they don't wear MacLaren because of the association to the clan and to Wood Badge.

Other Scouts in the UK (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) with Scottish heritage can also wear a kilt in their own tartan. There are also a couple of Scottish Scout corporate tartans in the tartan registry.

As has been noted in other Scout-related threads, there's nothing in the Boy Scouts of America Insignia Guide about the wearing of kilts or anything else tartan-related beyond the tartan swatch on the Wood Badge neckerchief. Adult members of the Boy Scouts of America are authorized to become members by the Clan MacLaren Society of North America only if they have completed Wood Badge.

This is just my take based on my 30 years in Scouting, but if a troop chose the MacLaren tartan for a neckerchief, that would probably be accepted since the troop chose it (nothing requires a troop to have a neckerchief at all), but some people might raise a stink about it being reserved to Wood Badgers. In a similar vein, if a Venture Crew (a co-ed unit for older kids) chose the MacLaren tartan and kilts as their regular uniform (they'd still be expected to have the standard Venturing uniform - dark green shirt and gray slacks/shorts - for regional/national/international events), it would probably be accepted, but some people may object.