The Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) is still accepting applications for its 2017 summer youth camp scholarship program. The deadline to apply is Apr. 5.

The program helps send deserving area youngsters to summer camps that emphasize conservation and the environment.

Scholarships are available not only for the Society’s own day camps in Berkeley and Jefferson counties but also for camps at other locations in West Virginia.

Any youngster within the Society’s membership area (the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and Washington County, Maryland) is eligible to apply.

Funds for the scholarships come from the proceeds of the Society’s annual fall Bird Seed Sale and from donations and other community sources.

Currently, scholarships to eight different camps are still available. The camps, locations, ages/grades served, and dates are as follows:

Audubon Discovery Day Camp: PVAS’s own local camp at its Yankauer and Stauffer’s Marsh nature preserves and Peter Burr Farm; pre-school to grade 12, plus junior staff opportunities for grade 7 and up; a variety of week-long sessions during June and July.

PVAS Nature Photography Day Camp: at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown; grades 9-12 (ages 14-18); June 19-23.

Oglebay Institute Junior Nature Camp: at Dallas Pike (near Wheeling); ages 10-15; July 16-22 or July 23-29.

Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies: at Capon Bridge; ages 11-15; June 25-July 8, July 11-25, or Aug. 2-15.

Mountain Stewards Summer Camp Middle School Program: at Mountain Institute, Spruce Knob; entering grades 6-8; June 11-17, June 18-23, June 25-July 1, July 2-7, and July 9-15 (this camp’s weeks vary in length).

Mountain Stewards Summer Camp High School Program: at Mountain Institute, Spruce Knob; entering grades 9-12 (up to age 17); June 11-17, June 18-23, June 25-July 1, July 2-7, and July 9-15 (this camp’s weeks also vary in length).

West Virginia Junior Conservation Camp: at Cedar Lakes, Ripley; ages 11-14; June 19-23.

West Virginia Senior Conservation Camp: at Camp Caesar, Webster County; Campers must be age 14 by Jan. 1 and not past age 18 on June 1; June 12-17.

For more information about all these camps and scholarship application forms go to the PVAS website at www.potomacaudubon.org or contact Kathryn Henry at 304-876-6681 or dhenry@myexcel.

com.