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===Marin Council=== {{Infobox WorldScouting |name=Marin Council (#035) |image= Marin Council CSP.png |type=council |owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]] |headquarters=[[San Rafael, California]] |location= |country=United States |coords= |f-date=1919 |defunct= |founders= |founder= |members= |chiefscouttitle=President |chiefscout=Chris Cardinal |chiefscouttitle2=Council Commissioner |chiefscout2=Sam Guyton |chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive |chiefscout3=Michael Dybeck |website= {{url|http://www.boyscouts-marin.org}} }} One of the six councils that serves the [[San Francisco Bay]] area, the '''Marin Council''' was formed in 1910. In 1918 it absorbed the Mill Valley and Sausalito Councils.{{listref|a}} The Marin County's Scouting community was born just six months after the national Boy Scouts of America organization in 1910.<ref>{{Cite news |title=After 100 years in Marin, Boy Scout tradition lives on |url=http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20101018/NEWS/101018937 |access-date=2017-10-30 |language=en}}</ref> ====Camps==== *Camp Marin-Sierra (Chubb Lake) located in Emigrant Gap, CA. The camp features 320-acres of forested terrain with significant facilities, including Ibach And Murray lodges, a rifle, shotgun and archery range, full commercial kitchen, rock climbing wall, camp fire bowl and waterfront facilities. Marin Sierra hosts resident camp for Scouts BSA troops and Venture crews. The facility is also used year-round by various Scout units and is staffed by a full-time ranger. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Marin Sierra |url=https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-facilities/camp-marin-sierra/4056 |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=www.boyscouts-marin.org}}</ref> *[https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-programs-and-facilities/camp-tamarancho/4057 Camp Tamarancho] located in [[Fairfax, California|Fairfax, CA]]. 412 acre camp available for year-round use, the camp has developed facilities including a full commercial kitchen, archery and rifle ranges, a chapel and both developed and primitive campsites. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Tamarancho |url=https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-programs-and-facilities/camp-tamarancho/4057 |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=www.boyscouts-marin.org}}</ref> Tamarancho hosts BSA units from around Northern California as well as Marin Council programs such as Cub Scout day camp. The camp is staffed by a full time ranger. Surrounding the camp is one of the Bay Areaβs largest network of maintained single-track mountain bike trails.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Tamarancho Loop Mountain Bike Trail, Fairfax, California |url=https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/808937/camp-tamarancho-loop |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=MTB Project}}</ref> *{{Commonscat-inline|Camp Tamarancho}} ====Order of the Arrow==== *Talako Lodge #533<ref>{{Cite web |title=Talako Lodge History |url=http://usscouts.org/honorsociety/tribetalako.asp |website=usscouts.org}}</ref>
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