NatureSkills Weeklong
Spend
a week exploring the natural world and learning outdoor survival skills
with Wilderness Awareness School’s most experienced instructors.
Classroom instruction will be paired with mentored dirt time in the field where we take theory into practice tracking, birding, studying plants, and exploring the natural world. It’s a wonderful mix of nature awareness, outdoor survival skills and wilderness survival skills training.
A full day will be spent exploring each of the following areas...
Field Observation Refine your physical observation skills and learn to integrate intuitive awareness into your study of nature. Chris Laliberte weaves stories, current research on human perception and brain patterning in with concrete practices for learning to see and hear more in nature, while expanding both your awareness and ability to retain new learning!
Wildlife Tracking Practice track and sign location, identification, interpretation, aging, ecological tracking, and trailing. A mix of technical skills training and dirt time provides the opportunity to both build skills and work through challenging mysteries with a mentor looking over your shoulder to guide you. Jenn Wolfe guides your study for the day.
Edible and Medicinal Plants Develop your identification skills and learn to use plants for food and medicine. Collection and processing techniques are covered. John Gallagher guides you down the path towards a deeper relationship with wild plants.
Wilderness
Survival & Outdoor Living Skills A skilled naturalist must
be comfortable traveling and living in the natural world. Learn shelter
construction, fire making, crafts for primitive outdoor living and other
wilderness survival training basics with Dan Corcoran.
Bird Language Interpretation As the master tracker Olaus Murie wrote "One should always listen to the warnings of the birds." Learn to recognize the different calls and alarms of the birds and a whole new world of awareness opens up to you. A day in the field with Alexia Stevens will transform your awareness of what’s going on in the forest around you.
Although class will be held in the beautiful forests of the Pacific Northwest, you will leave with a set of invaluable core routines you can take anywhere. This class covers indispensable skills for naturalists!
NatureSkills.com, our content web site with numerous free articles, is a great supporting resource for this class!
Register for NatureSkills Weeklong
| Add to Cart | Ages Adult $785 Food and camping included. July 18-24, 2010 6:00pm Sunday-12pm Saturday Our land in the foothills of the Cascades, near Duvall, WA Airport shuttle available. |
Instructor Biographies
Dan
Corcoran shares his passion and experience with wilderness
survival skills and naturalist studies. He serves as the Director of
the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and as an instructor with Youth
and Adult Courses at Wilderness Awareness School. Dan received his B.S.
in Biology from Indiana University, is a 2003 graduate of the Wilderness
Awareness Residential Program, is a Kamana graduate, and a Wilderness
First Responder.
David
Moskowitz is our lead Wildlife
Tracking Programs Instructor and the project manager for the Cascade
Wildlife Monitoring Project. He joined Wilderness Awareness School
in 2005, bringing with him over a decade of experience teaching outdoor
and environmental education throughout the United States including at
Outward Bound and the North Cascades Institute. David is a skilled field
researcher and has been involved with forest carnivore research and wildlife
monitoring in the Cascades for many years. He holds a bachelors degree in Environmental Studies through Prescott
College with an emphasis on Field Ecology and Wildlife Tracking. David's new book Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest:
Tracking and Identifying Mammals, Birds,
Reptiles, Amphibians and Invertebrates is forthcoming from Timber Press and is available for pre-sale in our nature store.
Alexia
Stevens shares her skills and passion with Bird Language
and Behavior. She is a 2002 Anake Outdoor School Graduate, and serves
as a staff specialist in Bird Language at the Residential Program and
other adult courses. Alexia has worked as a bird biologist in the
North Cascades and Olympic National Parks, and has a degree in Environmental
Science with a concentration on bird behavior and communication. She
is currently recording an audio guide to bird behavior.
Lindsay
Huettman is a Youth School Instructor
and Outreach Coordinator for Youth Programs at Wilderness Awareness School. Her primary passion is
connecting humans to wilderness through the use of native plants. This
inspired her to complete a degree at WWU in Ethnobotany Stewardship
Education. This can include anything from eating Hemlock cambium and
discussing its nutritional benefits, to making baskets out of Cedar
roots and dying them with lichens! She has a background in organic farming, landscaping, horse packing
& training, homeschool support and is an avid plant dork when it
come to biochemistry. Most of all she loves to sit in the woods and
watch the leaves uncurl each spring.
Mike
Prince: Mike is a core instructor with Community School, and Facility
Manager for Wilderness Awareness School. Mike graduated from the Anake Outdoor School (formerly the Wilderness Awareness Residential Program) in 2004, and followed that with a second
year as a Apprentice Instructor with Community School. Mike's previous
experience as an educator includes teaching High School, directing a
Boy Scout Camp, and working for the YMCA.
