Friends of Maine State Parks

Conservation Camp Scholarship Program

The purpose of the program is to encourage children to think about the natural world from different perspectives, and foster a stewardship ethic that will secure the future for Maine's environment that they can be proud of.

Each year as many schools as our scholarship funds allow, are solicited for participation in an essay contest to determine the recipients of a one-week scholarship to Camp Tanglewood in Camden Hills State Park.  The theme of the essay is the importance of State Parks and Public Lands to other entities in nature.  The students are asked to take on the perspective of another entity in nature such as a tree, rock, mammal, bird, insect, etc and write about their adopted view point.