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The Agatha A. Durland Scout Reservation is a Scout camp owned by the Westchester-Putnam Council in Putnam Valley, New York. It is of mostly deciduous forest containing five lakes, bordered by Clarence Fahnestock State Park to the northeast. It has about forty campsites and nine cabins. In the summer months, it is used as one of three Westchester-Putnam Council cub scout day camps. ==History== In 1968, environmentalist and National Geographic Director of Exploration William O. Field sold his property to the Boy Scouts of America. The camp was originally named Clear Lake Scout Reservation for one of the lakes on the property. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation offered to buy the land from Field to add on to the newly formed and neighboring Clarence Fahnestock State Park, but Field declined, claiming that the BSA would be better caretakers of the land, keeping it "forever wild". The estate was sold to the council in 1968. In 1993, the council voted to save the then "Clear Lake" from being sold for $4.5 million to private developers who would build a golf course on the land. The council voted down the proposal. In 2007, the council renamed Clear Lake to the Agatha A. Durland Scout Reservation. The reservation's namesake had donated oceanfront property in Rye, New York on Milton Point, to the council and a 20-year trust to the council. The trust was terminated and the money split throughout the council. In 2007, the waterfront property, Durland Scout Center, was sold to private developers. The name and trust were transferred to Clear Lake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Durland Scout Reservation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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