Friends and Resources

This page is intended to connect you with a broader network of related resources — in our region and beyond.

Nature-Connection Resources

What the Robin Knows
This book is an excellent resource for diving into the world of Bird Language, and launching this awareness-expanding Core Routine in your life. This groundbreaking book unites indigenous knowledge, up-to-date research, and the author’s nature experiences spanning four decades to lead us toward a deeper connection with animals, and a deeper connection with ourselves.

Coyote’s Guide
coyotesguide.com
This book passes on the subtle nature-based educational methods that were used long ago, when subsistence lifestyles kept humankind close to the natural cycles of the earth. It presents a fun, empowering and healing approach to nature education that has proven effective for countless educational organizations, families, and individuals of all ages.

Kamana Naturalist Training Program Workbook Series
wildernessawareness.org/kamana
This workbook series is an experiential four-level home study course through which readers gain a comprehensive naturalist training background. Students learn wildlife tracking, bird language, survival and native living skills, traditional herbalism, naturalist mentoring and more. Students become confident naturalists, melding modern field ecology with the skills of a native scout.

The Art of Mentoring
8shields.com/programs/art-of-mentoring
The Art of Mentoring is a weeklong experiential nature-based program designed to help participants remember the ways of our ancestors and learn to apply these ways to our modern communities. The intention behind this program is that we might once again live in healthy, regenerative communities—villages where people of all ages are in deep relationship with the land, each other and themselves.

The Tracker
This book is the epic story of Tom Brown Jr.’s adventures into a realm of deep nature connection that has set a precedence of discovery, learning and transformation in nature for hundreds of nature schools across the globe. It follows the story of Tom’s encounter, and subsequent decade of apprenticeship with, an Apache scout and tracker of astonishing physical and spiritual capabilities, named, Grandfather.

Nature Tracking
naturetracking.com
Jonah Evans’ online resource for wildlife tracking.

iTrack Wildlife
naturetracking.com/itrackwildlife.com
This app is excellent for identifying animal tracks and sign in the field using a handheld mobile device. It’s fun, easy to use, contains hundred of high-resolution photos and is filled with accurate information.

Traditional Tanners
braintan.com
Based in Ashland, Oregon, Traditional Tanners offers consulting services, an online store, and a publishing arm specializing in media regarding traditional tanning and leather crafting.

Bird Language Leaders
birdlanguage.com

Thomas J. Elpel’s Web World Portal
hollowtop.com

Children & Nature Network
childrenandnature.org

Wildwood Survival
wildwoodsurvival.com

Primitive Ways
primitiveways.com

Paleo Planet
paleoplanet.net

Primitive Technology
primitivetechnology.wordpress.com

Affiliate Wilderness Schools

Woodland Ways
Philmont, New York
woodlandways.com

Tamakoce Wilderness School
Grafton, New York
tamakocewildernessprograms.com

Earthwork Programs
Williamsburg, Massachusetts
earthworkprograms.com

Wolf Tree Programs
Montague, Massachusetts
wolftreema.com

Wild Earth
New Paltz, New York
wildearth.org

Institute for Natural Learning
Brattleboro, Vermont
ifnaturallearning.com

Vermont Wilderness School
Brattleboro, Vermont
vermontwildernessschool.org

Two Coyotes
Monroe, Connecticut
twocoyotes.org

Primitive Pursuits
Ithaca, New York
primitivepursuits.com

Earthwalk Vermont
Plainfield, Vermont
earthwalkvermont.org

White Pine Programs
Cape Neddick, Maine
whitepineprograms.org

Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
trackerschool.com

Sassafrass
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
sassafrasmvy.org

Living Earth School
Charlottesville, Virginia
livingearthva.com

Wilderness Awareness School
Duvall, Washington
wildernessawareness.org

Flying Cloud Institute
New Marlborough, Massachusetts
flyingcloudinstitute.org

Like-Minded Organizations

The Abode of the Message
New Lebanon, New York
theabode.org

Abode Farm CSA
New Lebanon, NY
abodefarm.com
Abode Farm CSA is a cooperatively run, horse-powered farm in New Lebanon, New York, producing vegetables, herbs, and flowers for CSA members, local businesses, schools, and farmers markets.

The 8 Shields Institute
Belinas, California
8shields.org

Climbing Tree Farm
New Lebanon, New York
climbingtreefarm.com

CyberTracker
trackercertification.com

Northeast Wildlife Trackers
northeastwildlifetrackers.com

Soul Fire Farm
Petersburg, New York
soulfirefarm.com

Uprising Farm
West Lebanon, NY
facebook.com/uprisingfarm.org

Flying Deer Nature Center