Local Eagle Scout presents Boy Scouts Annual Report to Commissioners Court




Boy Scouts of Troop 194 are shown preparing the barrels to be used in burrowing owl nest boxes, from left to right; in front of the table, Josh Glaser, Jesse Fehr, Christoffer Fehr, Ryan Tudyk, William Chancellor, behind the table Enrique Trevino, Kickoff Family members Brenda and Don, Zachary Perez and Danny Morrison II.

Boy Scouts of Troop 194 are shown preparing the barrels to be used in burrowing owl nest boxes, from left to right; in front of the table, Josh Glaser, Jesse Fehr, Christoffer Fehr, Ryan Tudyk, William Chancellor, behind the table Enrique Trevino, Kickoff Family members Brenda and Don, Zachary Perez and Danny Morrison II.

Eagle Scout Jesse A. Fehr of Boy Scouts Troop 194 of Pleasanton, presented the Boy Scouts of America’s report at the Commissioners Court meeting on Monday, Feb. 23. It took place at the Atascosa County Courthouse, in Jourdanton. February 2015 marks the 105th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Since the organization launched in 1910, the BSA has served over 150 million youth. In 2014 the Alamo Area Council served nearly 29,000 youth and 7,500 adult volunteers in 736 Scouting programs in their 13 county territory.

Last year was our 14th year of consecutive growth. Each year the Boy Scouts of America conducts a Report to the Nation where a delegation of Scouts submits an official brief to the President of the United States as well as to congressional leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

A delegation of 25 Scouts and leaders represented the Alamo Area Council at the Texas Report to State on Feb. 7. The Scouts presented the council’s 2014 report to the newly sworn in Governor Abbot.

This year marks the inaugural year the scouts will conduct a Report to Atascosa County. The report Jesse presented on behalf of the Alamo Area Council contained some of their 2014 successes including 7,087 youth participated in camping programs, the addition of Mays Family Scout Ranch located in South Bexar County, Good Scout and Hornaday awards programs and the Eagle Scout Service Projects.

Jesse’s Eagle Scout Service project was a conservation project to build burrowing owl nest boxes on a local Ranch in Floresville. The ranch had been setup by the Kirchoff Family and Texas Parks and Wildlife as they join together in a Landowner Incentive Program.

One of North America’s most engaging and beneficial birds, the burrowing owl is experiencing a decline in population as nest sites are lost to development. Unlike birds that nest in trees, the burrowing owl is dependent on a ground burrows dug by other animals.

With the decline on badgers, prairie dogs, ground squirrel or any animals that burrow, the borrow owls are having less and less burrows to nest in. On Sept. 20, 2014, Jesse Fehr and his group of volunteers from Boy Scouts Troop 194 built six burrowing owl nest boxes.


Completed burrowing owl nest box.

Completed burrowing owl nest box.

Boy Scout Jesse Fehr with his father Bill Fehr, Scoutmaster Troop 194 digging holes with the excavator donated from Double P Rentals in Pleasanton in preparation for the building of the burrowing owl nest box.

Boy Scout Jesse Fehr with his father Bill Fehr, Scoutmaster Troop 194 digging holes with the excavator donated from Double P Rentals in Pleasanton in preparation for the building of the burrowing owl nest box.

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