Things to Know:
Pool Time!
Summer might be over but its always the season to strengthen your swimmig skills. Join park staff to work on any water-related skills whether its learning to switch from the very beginning to practicing lifeguarding skills, we have open pool time for any and everyone. MPS Training staff will be on hand to offer swimming skills help.
10/14- Cumberland
11/24- St Marys
With more to come!
MPS Trainings:
10/9-10- Foundations of Search Operations -Soldiers Delight
Click here to register!
This course covers the basic techniques of search and rescue, mapping, compass, and grid reader work. Note: This is a two-day class that includes classroom and field activities. Please dress appropriately for the weather.
SAR Tech III Certification is available through NASAR. LTC and classified MPS employees who pass the exam will receive certification at no personal cost. All others must pay the $70 certification fee and take the online exam to receive a NASAR certificate. Instructions to complete the NASAR exam will be reviewed during the class session.
10/16- Mock Search- Patapsco Click here to register!
Join MPS staff members as well as volunteer SAR organizations to refresh your searching knowledge and participate in a mock search. We will meet at shelter 706 in the Pickall area of Patapsco.
Bring a handheld radio, clothing appropriate for the weather, a flashlight, and the normal daily equipment you carry while on duty.
Search Tactics Review
15:00 - Arrival
15:30 - 16:30 SAR Resource Orientation
16:30 - 17:00 Dinner, Bring your own
17:00 - 20:00 Search
20:00 - 21:00 After Action Review
22:00 - Clear Park, Lock Gate
Mock Search
4:30 pm - 10 pm
Search Tactics Review is an option session prior to the Mock Search where students will review the fundamentals of ground search and be acquainted with any technology and equipment being used for the Mock Search.
Non-MPS Trainings:
Our partners with the Baltimore County Police Peer Support and Wellness Team will be hosting two 2-Day Boulder Crest Struggle Well trainings in November and one 5-Day Boulder Crest Struggle Well training in December. Please see below for additional information and locations.
Struggle Well is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the transformation of the active serving military and first responder culture, rather than the implementation of another wellness program. Struggle Well training is guided by two objectives: normalizing the struggles that are a part of every service member and first responder’s life, and democratizing their ability to struggle well. Struggle Well trains active serving military units and first responder agencies so participants are able to transform struggle into strength and growth, and be of better service to themselves, their family, community, and country.
Struggle Well training enables participants to develop a plan for personal growth by transforming their struggle into strength through training in six main areas:
- Trust and Connection: Recognizing the importance of trust and how to foster deep and meaningful connections.
- Education: Identifying the physical, psychological, and spiritual impacts of stress; examining the ways in which struggle can lead to growth and transformation.
- Regulation: Adopting mental, physical, financial, and spiritual wellness practices to regulate thoughts, feelings, and actions.
- Disclosure: Developing ways to self-disclose personal experiences which can be effective in strengthening interpersonal relationships.
- Story: Creating a positive, forward-looking personal story that integrates past, present, and future.
- Service: Developing a new plan to provide service to their family, workplace, and community.
The two-day training allows for those in attendance to develop an understanding of Post-Traumatic Growth and the six main areas identified above. The five-day allows those in attendance to dive deeper into the topics and activities that are offered. Anyone who has previously attended the two-day course is welcome to attend the five-day to continue working on the areas of growth started during the two-day. The two-day is not a prerequisite for the five-day, and all are welcome to attend.
2-Day Offerings (****Please Note: This is a 2 day course that is 8 hours each day. Under “Highlights” on the Eventbrite page it says “1 day, 8 hours" the host is unable to change that.****)
November 5 & 6, 2025
Time: 8:00 a – 4:00 p.m. (each day)
Location: Long Green Volunteer Fire Company Event Hall, 4506 Long Green Road, Glen Arm MD 21057
To register please click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-crest-foundation-2-day-struggle-well-training-tickets-1644981817899?aff=oddtdtcreator
November 13 & 14, 2025
Time: 8:00 a – 4:00 p.m. (each day)
Location: Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company (40 E. Sudbrook Ln., Pikesville, MD 21208)
To register please click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-crest-foundation-2-day-struggle-well-training-tickets-1644914305969?aff=oddtdtcreator
5-Day Offering (****Please Note: This is a 5 day course that is 8 hours each day. Under “Highlights” on the Eventbrite page it says “4 days, 8 hours” and the host is unable to change that.****)
December 1st-5th, 2025
Time: 8:00 a – 4:00 p.m. (each day)
Location: Long Green Volunteer Fire Company Event Hall, 4506 Long Green Road, Glen Arm MD 21057
To register please click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-crest-foundation-5-day-struggle-well-training-tickets-1645024916809?aff=oddtdtcreator
Food will be provided, and light refreshments and coffee will be available during the training. Participants with dietary restrictions are encouraged to bring food/snacks as the menu/food provider is at the discretion of Boulder Crest.
Each class is limited to 25 participants. A waitlist will be established automatically through Eventbrite if the maximum number of registrations is exceeded. This training is open to all active and retired first responders and professional staff members.
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Trapper Certification Course
Saturday Nov 1, 2025 9:00AM -4:00PM
Casselman Valley Sportsman's Club8751 National Pike
Grantsville, MD 21536
ABOUT THIS EVENT:
This class is the in-person Maryland Trapper Education Course. This is part of the Maryland Hunter Safety Program’s Advanced Hunter Education Series. A Trapper Ed Course is NOT required to purchase a Maryland Furbearer Permit or to hunt furbearers in Maryland without a trap. However, a Maryland Furbearer Permit AND Trapper Ed Certification is required if a person intends to trap furbearers in Maryland. ***Students of any age are welcome; however, a written test will be given, and must be passed, in- order to receive certification. Every student must bring a completed “Maryland Trapper Education Workbook”. This workbook will be examined and scored by an instructor at this class and is mandatory. You can complete the workbook by using the “Maryland Trapper Student Manual” as a reference and study guide. ***Both of these books can be downloaded on the Maryland Trapper Education webpage. ***Please see the printable “Welcome Letter” file for a direct link to the Trapper Webpage as well as a detailed description of the class, what to bring and what to expect. For further information, contact Clarissa Harris @ 301-777-2136 or clarissa.harris1@maryland.gov.
"The Transformation of Hunting and Forest Management in the Early 20th Century U.S. South" with Julia Brock October 6, 2025 1-2 PM ET |
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In her new book Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South, historian Julia Brock traces the creation and evolution of game and fish laws in the Deep South from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, with a close eye on the social imagination of conservation advocates, the response by everyday southerners, the changing field of wildlife science, and the increasing role of the federal government in wildlife protection. She’ll introduce these themes in her talk and also consider how forestry and forestry laws were featured—or not—in the new game and fish commissions established in this era. |
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| Julia Brock is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama, where she coordinates a Public History Concentration. Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South (UNC Press 2025) is her first book and is now available from the publisher. |
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This webinar is approved for 1 hour of CFE credit from the Society of American Foresters! |
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