Links to Wilderness Courses

Wilderness Awareness School has provided links to these websites as a helpful resource, and we hope you find them useful. While we support the work of many of these organizations and individuals, this listing is not intended as an endorsement, and we encourage you to independently research these sites.

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Featured Links

NatureSkills.com
Our content site featuring tons of free articles and other resources for your learning journey!

NatureTalk.net
Join the conversation about nature, tracking, wilderness survival skills, bird sounds interpretation (bird language), youth mentoring, Kamana, and more...

Conservation Concepts
Unique travel to Uganda offering an authentic experience visiting with local people partnered with BeadforLife, and getting to know the wildlife and environment first-hand - brought to you by our friend Mark Jordahl...

Affiliate Schools

Wilderness Youth Project
Wilderness Youth Project inspires and guides youth, adults, and families toward finding, expressing, and manifesting their inherent gifts... (California)

White Pine Programs
White Pine Programs is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to renew connections to the earth and deepen awareness of place... (Maine)

The Riekes Center Nature Awareness Department
A division of The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement, the program provides quality nature immersion opportunities that promote fun, adventure, and life-long learning... (California)

Our Co-founders

Jon Young - Wilderness Awareness School founder, now based in California, who still serves as a master teacher for some of our courses...

Ingwe (1914-2005) - Co-founder and "Grandfather" of Wilderness Awareness School

Some Friends in the Pacific Northwest

RavenCroft Garden
Education connecting people, plants and the earth.

Earthwalk Northwest
Frank and Karen Sherwood. Survival skills & wild edible plants.

Elder Awareness
A great new program located in our area, and directed by Residential Program graduate Barbara Russell. Elder Awareness is offering summer adults/kids adventures, "Knowing Your Place" programs, and more! Elder Awareness

Earthways Nature Education Programs
Cody Beebe and Lisa Boyda in the Bellingham, WA area.

Community Threads
For the expression, education and celebration of community.

The Polishing Stone
A wonderful magazine published in our back yard. "Refining the life you live into the live you love."

Foundation for Sustainable Community
FSC has an interest in all things that support the concept of sustainable living and community...

LearningHerbs.com
Herbal Medicine Making Kit, Roots and Branches Herbal Home Study Course and more! Created by our own John Gallagher and his wife Kimberly.

Wilderness Schools & Education Organizations

A Naturalist's World
Ancient Pathways
Animá Wildlands Center & Women's Sanctuary
Archway Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
Biogems
Boulder Outdoor Survival School
Camp Encounter
Cascadia Wild
Central Coast Vigil Center
Common Ground Tracking
Coyote's Path
Coyote Regional Outdoor Adventures
CyberTrackerWorld
Dancing Coyote Camp
Das Wissen Der Wildnis
Deep Wilds
Earth Connection
Earth-Based Institute - Center for Transformational Learning (CO)
Earth-Heart Institute of Vision and Healing
Earth School - Nature Awareness and Self Reliance
with Richard Cleveland
EarthWalk Northwest, Inc
Earthways Nature Education Programs
Earthwise Ventures
EarthWork Programs
Earth Skills
Foraging with the "Wildman" - Steve Brill
Four Feathers Wilderness Programs
Global Living Project
Hans-Joerg Kriebel's Home Page (Germany)
Hawk Circle
Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School
Ingwe's Wilderness Trail
Institute of Noetic Sciences
IslandWood
Jim Halfpenny
Keeping Track
Kokopelli Earth Survival School
Living Earth School
Maine Primitive Skills School
Mentoring UK - Mentoring UK and other related mentoring links
Mountaineers, The
Nature Awareness School
Nature Awareness Tracking School, LLC
Natur Agentur
Nature and Legend in Story Society discussion forum
Nature Mapping
NatureSkills.com
North Cascades Institute
Paul Rezendes
Quail Springs - Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm (CA)
Ravenwood Natural Science Center
RavenCroft Garden
Riekes Center Nature Studies Department
ROOTS School
Schule unterwegs
Seattle Wisdom School
Sharing Nature Foundation
Shikari Trackers Guild
Sihasca, für ein naturnahes, bewusstes Leben (Schweiz)
Tatanka Mani Camp
Tom Brown, Jr., The Official Tracker School Home Page
Tracks and Trees Learning Center
Tree of Peace Society
Twin Eagles Wilderness School
Überlebensschule Tirol
Uwe Belz's school in Germany
Vermont Wilderness School
Whidbey Institute
White Pine Programs
Wild-Live
Wilderness Awareness School
Wilderness Survival Skills for safe wilderness travel
Wilderness Youth Project - in Santa Barbara
Wildlife Tracking in North America - Mark Elbroch's site
Windwalker
Wood Skills - Vancouver, BC

Other Resources

Alternative Healing, Education & more

William Wittmann, M.Ed., LMP & Vital Arts Incorporated

Animals

Animal Diversity Web
Nature of New England
Tree of Life

Blogs

Wilderness Skills Blog - Wilderness Awareness Residential Program student blog, with photos, about life in this intensive program for adults!
Writer by Nature - Writer and naturalist offers creative nature curriculum, wild food recipes, fiction, poetry, articles and writing services for individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses and ecologically aware companies.
Erdwissen - German nature blog by Kamana graduate Axel Trapp, with useful information for German and European Kamana students and naturalists such as recommended books, weekly foto blog, stories, and nature mysteries.
Views from My Tent - Positive Impact Living blog by Louise Brookes, a free online sustainable living and buschraft course - take a step at a time to living free...

Clothing, Gear & Footwear

Chief To-Me-Kin's Hand-Made Moccasins
Jenntle Wolfe Designs
Sodhoppers Custom Footwear - Buffalo & Elk Moccasins/Boots, Tracking-Hunting-Hiking-Motorcycle-Stage, Medieval-Reenactment-Renaissance-SCA, Western-LARP-NERO, Play-Comfort-Fun!
The North Face - US Outdoor Store - Buy the north face jackets, clothing, hiking boots, trail running shoes, backpacks and camping gear.

Community

Community Threads
Daniel Quinn's Ishmael Community
Foundation for Sustainable Community

Eco-tourism/ Wilderness Adventures

BP-Outdoors Adventure Travel
Chinook Expeditions
Conservation Concepts - Ugandan travel
Crooked Trails
Jabiru Lodge - Belizean ECO Center
White Wolf Wilderness Expeditions

Music & Instruments

Victor Lemonte Wooten - Victor Wooten is one of the world's foremost bass players and musicians, and is also an accomplished student and teacher of nature awareness and tracking!

Victor and his staff blend music and nature awareness in his annual Bass/Nature Camps, and Wilderness Awareness School had the honor of hosting the first such program held in the Northwest. Victor played a phenomenal tribute to Ingwe as part of the memorial and dedication of the Ingwe Library at Cedar Lodge.

Kaleidoscope School of Music
Raven Song Flutes

Native Folklore

Native American Lore Index

Plants

LearningHerbs.com
Foraging with the "Wildman" - Steve Brill

Primitive Skills

NatureSkills.com
Lake Superior Traditional Ways Gathering

Publications

Heron Dance
Orion Magazine
Polishing Stone
Wilderness Way
Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness

Technology (Ancient)

Native American Technology and Art

Tracks

Animal Tracks by Steve

Wilderness Survival Skills

Wilderness Survival Skills for safe wilderness travel