Most teenagers have plenty to do to keep them busy in the summer. How about doing more than just keeping busy this summer?

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is offering teens ages 14 – 17 a camp where they can learn about wildlife and the outdoors, make new friends and create good memories. The Game and Fish annual WILD About O.R.E.O. Youth Conservation Camp is scheduled for August 2 – 7, 2009. The department’s Whiskey Mountain Wildlife Conservation Camp is located near Trail Lake, ten miles southeast of Dubois, Wyoming.

Green River Regional Information and Education Specialist Lucy Wold says the camp is a great bargain and a lot of fun.

“The camp is free. Young men and women enjoy a week of learning outdoor skills, and conservation ethics, and participate in hands-on activities like shooting sports, fishing skills, hiking, canoeing and campfire time,” says Wold. “Students learn and recreate together in some of Wyoming’s most beautiful mountain country. Students won’t find an experience like this camp anywhere else in Wyoming and they get it all for no charge.”

Wold, who has been working at the Youth Camp since 1993, says the camp is well balanced with outdoor, indoor and hands-on activities. Most of the activities are done in groups with ...

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