Leave No Trace is an internationally recognized outdoor skills and ethics educational program from The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics. The BSA has embraced the LNT program as the core methodology of its Outdoor Ethics program because it provides a strong, science-based set of tools and concrete actions that we can use to apply the Outdoor Code to Scounting's fundamental outdoor activities. Since Scouting and Venturing are about personal responsibility, leadership and making good choices, by practicing Leave No Trace, we take responsbility for our own impacts, provide leadership to those around us by reducing their impacts by making good choices, and we work together to help preserve and conserve our environmental heritage. Leave No Trace is best understood not as a set of rules and regulations, but as an educational and ethical program for the Backcountry (remote wilderness, Philmont and Northern Tier) and the Frontcountry (open space trails, city, county and state parks, established campgrounds and scout camps).