Since 1987EARTH SKILLS 2015

Walk with the Animal Series • Desert Tracking Courses • Basic & Advanced Tracking • Trailing & Mapping • Nature Awareness Weekend • Guided Tracking Practice Series • Shelter Clinic with Christof Hagen • Moccasin Manufacture • Fall Traditional Skills • Wild Edible Plant Cooking • Native Plant Medicine Cabinet • Summer Skills Series • Earth Philosophy 1-3 • Solo Spiritual Quest

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EARTH SKILLS 2015 Since 1987

1113 Cougar Court, Frazier Park, CA 93225 661-245-0318 • www.earthskills.com • jim@earthskills.com

* = classes with no prerequisite Group trainings may also be scheduled.

TrackingMore than following a trail, more than identifying a track, more than reading the landscape, tracking is learning how to “become the animal.” With your skills of visualization and interpretation you step across a threshold into its world. The ancient skill teaches you attention to detail, calm focus and expanded awareness, and will really make the landscape come alive – whether you’re a novice or an experienced outdoorsperson.

Classes in 2015: *Basic Tracking *Basic Tracking in Joshua Tree *Basic Tracking at the Desert Studies Center Walk with the Animal Series Advanced Tracking Trailing & Mapping Nature Awareness Weekend Guided Tracking Practice series

Wilderness & Traditional SkillsKnowledge about the wilderness can make you safe, it can make you confident; but it definitely does make you involved. Sleeping in a primitive shelter, making fire without matches, preparing and sampling wild edibles – these are the experiences that make you part of the wilderness you’re walking through. They also bring you closer to the “ancient ways” of native peoples, from whom many of the skills are learned.

Classes in 2015: *Shelter clinic with Christof Hagen *Moccasin manufacture *Wild edible plant cooking *Medicinal Plant workshop with Tanya Jenkins *Summer Primitive Skills: Under Development *Fall Native Culture Weekend

Earth PhilosophyMany of our students consider the Earth Philosophy classes to be the most important and relevant classes we teach, and we definitely concur. In these workshops, you are not really learning, but rather “relearning” the skills of awareness, openness, and intuition. We’re convinced that the earth philosophy skills are essential to really master tracking and survival, because they steadily increase your confidence and greatly expand your awareness. We are indebted to Tom Brown, Jr., for passing on ancient, universally relevant techniques.

Classes in 2015: *Intuitive Skills Workshop (=Earth Philosophy 1) Personal Skills Workshop (=Earth Philosophy2) Community Skills Workshop (=Earth Philosophy 3) *Solo Spiritual Quest

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Basic Tracking & awareness (No Prerequisite)

Basic Tracking gives you a solid introduction into mammal track and sign identification, as well as nature awareness techniques that will make your future outings exponentially richer. Working closely with the instructors, you will practice identifying and in-terpreting tracks from clear prints and patterns, and will learn how to read signs and what they say about animal feeding, breeding and behavior. We show you how tracks are “windows” to animals’ body language and biology. Finally, you learn methods to slow the mind and body so that you see, hear and experience more than you ever have.

February 28 (Saturday), Malibu Creek April 11-12, Tracking in Joshua Tree, see below*June 12 (Friday), Windy Springs PreserveSeptember 19 (Saturday), Malibu Creek

$68

* May be taken by itself or in conjunction with Ad-vanced Tracking and Trailing & Mapping.

Basic Tracking in Joshua Tree(No Prerequisite)

This two-day Basic Tracking class takes advantage of a splendid location, a private campground in Joshua Tree. We will introduce track identification with abundant field practice tracking jackrabbits, foxes, bobcats, coy-otes and other desert animals. We will cover mammal signs, track interpretation and awareness skills. This class is offered through the Desert Institute. To enroll, call the Desert Institute at (760) 367-5535 or go to:

http://www.joshuatree.org/desert-institute/field-classes/

This class counts as a Basic Tracking class, but is also open to those who have already taken Basic Tracking. This class usually fills early.

Basic Tracking aT The DeserT sTuDies cenTer

(No Prerequisite)

We return to this fabulous location in the East Mojave where in the past we’ve taught many beginning and ad-vanced tracking workshops, working on badger, kit fox and gray fox, bighorn sheep, ringtail and bobcat among many other species. The combination of lectures, video, demonstrations, and extensive field work in sandy sub-strate near Soda Lake afford an excellent and thorough introduction into tracking, ideal whether you are a field biologist or simply a desert aficionado. Indoor accom-modations and fully catered meals included.

April 11-12 (Saturday - Sunday), Joshua Tree National Park

$110 Enroll through the Desert Institute: 760-367-5535 or http://www.joshuatree.org/desert-institute/field-classes/

November 6-8 (Friday eve - Sunday), Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx

$325 credit or $245 non-credit Enroll through the University of California Riverside Extension

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walk wiTh The animal series(Basic trackiNg required)

“Walking with the animal” means stepping beyond the analytical, and having a conversation with the animal that left its prints, allowing it to show you where it went and how it moved. This essential and ancient dimen-sion of tracking has been relatively lost among modern trackers, but we’ve been busy reviving the skill for our-selves and our students. One of our graduates told us, “[The] class…has totally changed my way of tracking and I look at tracks…totally differently now. They are alive. My tracking went from black and white to very vivid colors.”

Your journey to become a more intuitive and connected tracker will include three sessions, the second an inten-sive weekend of practice, as well as solo field assign-ments between them. The series covers these essential skills: “Making contact with the trail,” “maintaining contact with the trail,” and “learning to read your intu-ition.” The series is open to Basic Tracking graduates but of course more experienced trackers will benefit greatly. The extensive work you put in will be richly rewarded.

Session 1 (One day): Making contact with the trail, from evaluation to communication.

Session 2 (Friday night to Sunday afternoon): Silencing techniques, dialing to the right channel, reading the intuition, debriefing, journaling and lots of practice.

Session 3 (One day): Reviewing completed take-home assignments, discussion, further practice and transi-tional ideas.

To complete take-home assignments, participants may also join any of the Guided Tracking days described below at no cost.

Five-Day Tracking inTensive aT winDy springs

immersion into the many levels of tracking, and significant advancement of your tracking skills, are the goals of this multi-day workshop at Windy Springs, a private reserve with spectacular tracking opportunities. You may join us for all or part of the week depending on your wishes and what you’ve done already tracking-wise. This class is a thankful nod to our past because, when we began to learn tracking in the 1980’s, the Kern River was one of our principal study areas. Here’s the schedule:

March 29 (Sunday), Los Alamos campground at Pyramid LakeMay 16-17 (Saturday-Sunday), Ft. Tejon SHPSeptember 20 (Sunday), Frazier Park areaAll three dates are required$395

Camping and some meals are included in session 2.. Enrollment includes one copy of Jim’s book, Walk with the Animal, and a WWTA t-shirt upon graduation.

June 12-16 (Friday morning through Tuesday afternoon), Windy Springs Preserve

$498

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Day 1. Basic Tracking. Introduction into track identification and interpretation, with lots of practice in an awesome tracking area. (If you’ve taken this before you may enroll at half price as a refresher.)

Days 2-3. Advanced Tracking. Following challenging trails, pressure releases, animal sign scouting, advanced awareness and human tracking practice.

Days 4-5. Trailing and Mapping . Following individual animals for long distances (in small teams and individually), intuitive tracking, understanding your animal. Surveying and understanding animal movement patterns through large-scale exploration and mapping.

The above-listed price covers all five days and includes four dinners and four breakfasts; participants bring their own lunches. Pricing for partial attendance is as follows: Basic & Advanced Tracking, $293, Advanced Tracking & Trailing / Mapping $440; Advanced Tracking or Trailing / Mapping $225 each.

The class will be at Windy Springs Preserve in the southern Sierras near Kennedy Meadows, where the tracking is fantastic.

AdvAnced TrAcking

(Basic Tracking required)

Becoming an advanced tracker means above all being able to see nuances the novice would miss: spotting tracks in pine needles, leaves or on hard-packed ground; noticing subtleties in track aging; being able to follow an animal across difficult terrain. The advanced tracker also gains confidence in reading tracks for motion and in distinguishing tracks of individual animals of the same species. Finally, he or she learns to be less obtrusive and more alert to the rhythms of nature. We know that the complete tracker must draw on the different talents of analysis, perspective and intuition. Thus this class gives you practice in all of those things. You will track animals across challenging terrain, practice reading soil movement or “pressure releases” in tracks, learn to read patterns of animal movement on the landscape, and stalk quietly at night. In teams, you will track the instructors as a final exercise.

June 12-14* (Friday evening - Sunday),Windy Springs Preserve

$225

*May be taken back-to-back with Trailing & Map-ping the following two days,

June 15-16* (Monday - Tuesday),Windy Springs Preserve

$225

*May be taken back-to-back with Advanced Track-ing the previous two days.

TrAiling & MApping

(advanced Tracking or equivalenT experience required)

We follow the Advanced Tracking workshop with two days of intensive tracking work based on intriguing questions that emerge there. We will follow animals’ trails for long distances, interpreting their choices and learning methods to keep on track after “hitting the wall.” We will practice intuitive tracking and reading the personality of individual animals through their tracks. Finally we’ll expand the work we did in 2011 through 2014, mapping animal trails to understand larger-scale patterns of animal use and travel, keying this to seasonal habits and biology of the resident bears, mountain lions, gray foxes and other mammals.

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February 22 (Sunday), Frazier Park areaWinter tracking: Snow tracking? Casting in mud? Trailing?

May 30 (Saturday), Pyramid Lake areaTrack ID practice? Habitat use?

August 22 (Saturday), Los PadresAlpine travel routes? Deer signs & biology?

October 10 (Saturday), Ft. Tejon areaGait analysis? Intuitive tracking?

$30 per session, take any or all

guided TrAcking prAcTice SerieS:picking up ThreAdS

(Basic Tracking required)

On any given tracking day, you may follow a bear trail, discover where the local deer bed, explore a kangaroo rat’s habitat, look for active kit fox dens, or delve into the posture of a coyote’s trot—among many other threads that are there to pick up. As long as you’ve taken Basic Tracking or the equivalent, you may join us for practice and expansion of your skills. You’ll do the work but we’ll guide you based on your experience and interest, providing review where necessary. We could subtitle this series “Identify, Interpret, Explore and Fine-Tune.” If you like guidance, we like mentoring.

Consistent with the theme, we won’t know what emphasis each session will have until we arrive. But we give you an idea of the possibilities.

Walk with the Animal students may join any of these sessions at no cost.

nATure AwAreneSS workShop

(Basic Tracking recommended)

For years we have offered this class because we ourselves like to sneak around in the woods, wait for animals, heighten our awareness and let nature speak to us as insiders rather than outsiders. We talk about “moving like a shadow” and “becoming the baseline” as we show quiet movement technique and simple natural camouflage. We will help transform the restless and noisy human into the quiet and floating creature. We hold this year’s class at Wind Wolves Preserve, home to a substantial elk herd as well as a large variety of other wildlife. We’ll do sits, stalks, explorations and scouting parties, through which you’ll pick up important techniques as well as enjoy an extraordinary habitat—since we’ll be the only ones camping in the canyon that weekend.

May 2-3 (Saturday-Sunday), Wind Wolves Preserve

$225

SurvivAl ShelTerS wiTh chriSTof hAgen

(no prerequisiTe)

It’s all about shelter, the #1 priority in survival, and who better to learn basics and details from than our old friend and colleague Christof Hagen, who is visiting us this winter and will happily share his expertise in this one-day clinic. Through his Survival Outdoor School in Switzerland, Christof has built and lived in a whole lot of interesting and effective shelters: personal and group igloos (including a 30’ diameter one), debris huts, quinzhees, group shelters and even floating ones. This will be an indoor workshop using many photos and explanation of techniques & options. You will learn the use of stacked debris walls, how to integrate a fire pit into shelter design, and various snow shelter options. Christof has been one of Europe’s leading survival teachers for more than 25 years.

February 21 (Saturday), Frazier Park, 11 am to 4 pm$45

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MoccASin MAnufAcTure

(no prerequisiTe)

In this one day class you will make a pair of moccasins fit ex-actly to your feet, very probably the most comfortable footwear you have ever owned. We wear moccasins around camp, or when tracking, to become part of the environment we’re in, and to make less of an impact on the animals around us. (We’re also known to sneak around the house wearing them in summer.) We learned this moccasin from our Cherokee friend Terry, but the style is also a Salish one. Cowhide materials are included.

March 1 (Sunday), Frazier Park $75

wild edible plAnT cooking

(no prerequisiTe)

In this class, you work in teams that each prepares a number of dishes using native plants, so that we can feast on the results by mid-afternoon. Each year the dishes are different, and our excite-ment begins to grow as our co-instructors, Robin Cornett (Black-foot) and Tanya Jenkins (veteran plant enthusiast) plan the salads, main and side dishes and desserts we will make. We already have on hand rose hips, elderberries, and acorns and we’ll collect a lot of other plants before the class.

Class size is limited and the workshop always goes to a wait list, so enroll early!

March 28 (Saturday), Frazier Park $75

MedicinAl plAnTS: creATe A nATive plAnT Medicine cAbineT

(no prerequisiTe)

Through projects and demonstrations, learn how to supplement your medicine cabinet with local plant remedies for common ail-ments including cuts, insect bites, muscle soreness, upset stomach, and bacterial and fungal infections. Plant specialist Tanya Jenkins shows you how to identify and use fresh medicinal plants, and then leads you in making herbal preparations you will take home with you. You’ll also learn how to harvest and preserve plants for later use. We’ll use yarrow, willow, plantain, Fremontia, sagebrush and creosote—all native plants—as well as aloe and calendula, plants that can be grown in our region. A previous medicinal plant class with Tanya filled with a wait list, so enroll early!

May 31 (Sunday), Frazier Park $45

priMiTive SkillS wiTh gAry bAugh

(no prerequisiTe)

We are honored to have primitive skills specialist Gary Baugh take us into the world of archery and stone tools once again. Expect a lot of hands-on practice as well as rich context for these skills.

Arrow-making on Saturday

Learning to make arrows with Gary Baugh is to enter a world where the practical and sublime merge seamlessly. That is, there’s a lot more to this skill than just straightening a stick and putting feathers and a point on. What materials do you choose, when

July 11, Arrowmaking, Frazier ParkJuly 12, Flintknapping, Frazier Park $75 each day

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fAll nATive culTure weekend

(no prerequisiTe)

Our annual gathering with elder Jacques Condor this year visits the nature culture, crafts and foods of the southeastern U.S. We’ll feature traditions of Cherokees, Choctaws, Seminoles and other people, experiencing songs and dances, making crafts including a Cherokee crystal necklace, and preparing native dishes of that area including hush puppies, shrimp, crab, hearts of palm salad and a coconut dessert—appreciating that the “soul food” of the southern U.S. largely originated from these native people. We’re joined by our other First Nation friends in welcoming you to this rich and fun weekend. There will be activities for children as well. Accommo-dations are in shared cabins. Space is limited, so enroll early.

October 17-18 (Saturday - Sunday), Mt. Kare Camp in Wrightwood

$170 adults, $50 children

do you harvest them and how do you season them? What arrow materials match what archery purposes, and which bows? Why are some arrows fletched differently than others? Why and how are arrows tapered? What is the proper weight ratio between the front and back of an arrow and how can that vary with the situation? What are different nocking styles? How does the stiffness (“spine”) of an arrow affect its flight with a given bow?

Well we could list another 30 questions, but we think you get our point of why you’ll learn so much as you make arrows with differ-ent materials, from Phragmites to horsetail to golden currant. What if you haven’t yet made your own bow? Well sooner or later you’ll have to learn both skills to embrace archery and primitive hunting, so this is just as good a starting place as bowmaking. This is a great class for those interested in local ethnography also!

Flintknapping on Sunday

Gary Baugh will teach a one-day introduction to flintknapping, with demonstration and practice in percussion and pressure flaking using obsidian and other materials. There will be a lot of infor-mation on technique and use of stone points, as well as guided practice. Gary will provide all materials.

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Earth Philosophy SeriesWe consider these workshops to be our most important, and many of the hundreds who have taken them would likely agree. After all, the survival, nature awareness and tracking skills we pass on are all anchored in a wisdom and deep connection to nature and spirit well known to indigenous people but barely imaginable in our modern culture. Whether you weave a basket, knap some stone or track an animal, doing it without the sense of spirit within the skill, as it were, would be unheard of among the elders who teach us.

Fortunately, a complex of techniques embracing this dimension has been passed on to us and we will do the same to you. “Earth philosophy” means specific methods to silence the “monkey mind” (as a student recently described it), listen purely, understand our intuition or “inner vision,” communicate with things outside of us, and ground ourselves in nature—and that’s just for starters! Hardly “new age,” these techniques come from a Lipan Apache elder who was Tom Brown, Jr.’s mentor and we humbly teach them without modification.

The following descriptions provide a sense of each class, but to understand their impact and usefulness you’ll just have to experience and practice the techniques yourself—which is why we invite you to attend the first weekend at no cost except for the direct expenses of food, materials and location.

inTuiTive SkillS + perSonAl SkillS workShop (=eArTh philoSophy 1 & 2)(some previous earTh skills class recommended)

We are waiving the usual $195 course fee in lieu of a modest dona-tion that will cover food, insurance and materials, because we feel the skills presented here are so important.

This intensive class combines two levels of the Earth Philosophy curriculum, beginning Saturday morning and running to Sunday afternoon. In the Intuitive Skills part of the program, we show you, through many activities and lots of practice, how to own and trust your intuition. In the Personal Skills curriculum, you learn how interactions with the natural world can address personal questions and empower personal gifts that may be temporarily lost in the modern world.

Specifically we cover: Walking in Balance; Relying on Your Inner Vision; Communication with Plants, Animals and Tracks; Spir-itual Intent; Empowering Personal Gifts; and Learning the Four Directions.

September 12-13 (Saturday - Sunday), Los Padres NF$40 or what you can afford

coMMuniTy SkillS workShop (=eArTh philoSophy 3)(personal skills Workshop required)

Also called Earth Philosophy 3, this workshop is devoted to further refining spiritual communication; practicing the sacred stillness; applying earth philosophy skills in work and life; and learning and practicing healing in the narrow and broad sense. There are indi-vidual and many group activities and assignments.

April 25-26 (Saturday - Sunday), Frazier Park area

$165

rAzor’S edge workShop (=eArTh philoSophy 4)(personal skills Workshop required)

Earth Philosophy 4 will not be offered in 2015.

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Solo SpiriTuAl QueST

(no prerequisiTe)

For the nineteenth year, we are excited to offer the Solo Spiritual Quest, an experience for answering deep personal questions, bal-ancing and grounding one’s life, and empowering one’s personal gifts. Our past quest participants have ranged in age from 18 to their 70’s, with extraordinarily varied backgrounds.

While the quest has roots in ancient ceremonies that have occurred in many cultures around the world, it maintains its relevance and power for us modern people. This is because the very act of being alone for four days and nights, and fasting within the rhythms of nature, brings you to a threshold of teaching and centering. The unessential tends to be stripped away, allowing you to discover what is real and necessary for you at this time. Some have quested to sort out important decisions, some to empower underused gifts, and some to shed the complicating “chaff” that modern life be-stows. Some of our questers repeat the quest every few years.

Like most significant learning events, the quest does require sacrifice and usually has challenges that tend to be unique for each quester. It is not an experience to undertake out of mere curios-ity because it requires a significant commitment. However, the strength you find within yourself, and your willingness to go to the edge of the unknown to learn, create an experience that you can draw on for a lifetime.

Our Solo Quest borrows from no specific tribal tradition. It is a four-day fast, during which you drink ample water. Though others will be questing at the same time, you will be alone in your person-al quest circle in a pine/oak woodland. You will have no distrac-tions (journals, cell phones, music, etc.) but will have a sleeping bag and sufficient clothing. You leave your circle only to use your personal latrine and to leave a marker for the facilitators once a day. You will see no one during your fast, though we do set up a communication system for your safety. There is a day and a half of orientation and preparation before you begin your quest, and there is a day of transition after you come out. We feed you before and after your fast and watch over the area 24 hours a day during it. The 2015 quest will be held on 320 acres of private land in the southern Sierras at about 7000 feet elevation.

To participate in this year’s quest you must ask for an application and return it to us by June 15, 2015 because there is a limit to the number of questers the site will accommodate. If you have any ques-tions, please contact Jim or Mary at any time and we would be happy to talk to you.

August 1-8 (Saturday noon through Saturday morning), Windy Springs Preserve in the southern Sierras

The fee for the quest, $415, goes entirely to direct expenses such as lease of the land, insurance, food and travel costs for the staff, who volunteer their time for this seven-day program. Some scholar-ships are available.

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About Earth SkillsFor the past twenty-eight years, Earth Skills founder Jim Lowery and his wife, Mary, have taught tracking, wilderness survival and nature awareness to thousands of outdoor lovers, both novice and experienced. Should you join us, you will find small, friendly but very focused classes providing you with much field experience and a lot of interaction with the instructors. We take pride in the quality of our teaching and in the versatility of our approach, which allows us to teach beginning outdoorspeople, young sci-ence students or professional biologists with equal commitment to their learning needs. From time to time guest specialists are brought in to teach or co-teach. Jim’s and Mary’s teachers have been many, but special acknowledgment is made to Tom Brown, Jr., from whom they both took numerous classes, and whose teachings form the basis especially of the Earth Philosophy curriculum. For tracking, Tom Brown, Jr. as well as other experienced trackers of different backgrounds and styles have pointed the way but it is frankly the many thousands of “four-leggeds” and “two-leggeds” whose tracks were studied over the years whose wisdom is passed on to students of Earth Skills. Jim is the author of The Tracker’s Field Guide (Globe Pequot, 2006 and 2013).

Special Trainings

Earth Skills has conducted special classes or trainings for the following, among others:

Parks and Nature Centers, Staff & Volunteer Training: Anza Borrego Natural History Association • Carrizo Plain Management (BLM, California Fish & Game, The Nature Conservancy) • Caspers Park Rangers & Docents • Chula Vista and Tijuana River Nature Centers • Desert Institute at Joshua Tree • Eaton Canyon Nature Center • Filoli Center • Franklin Canyon Nature Center • Lake Perris Rangers & Docents • Monrovia Parks & Recreation • Mountains Recration & Con-servation Authority • Nipomo Dunes Staff & Docents (Nature Conservancy) • O’Neill Regional Park Rangers & Docents • Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Docents • Topanga Canyon Docents • Wilderness Youth Project

Schools and Universities: California Institute of the Arts • California State University, Desert Studies Consortium • Cres-pi Carmelite High School • Crossroads School • Cuyamaca Outdoor School • Frisbie Middle School (Rialto, CA) • Hamilton HS (Anza CA) Field Biology Program • Hemet School District Field Biology Teacher Training • Los Angeles County Outdoor School Staff • Orange County Winter Wild • Pitzer College Desert Colloquium • Thacher School • UCLA Science Project • University of California, Irvine • University of California, Riverside • USC Engineering Dept. Honors Program

Field Biology Professionals: Chambers Group Biological Consulting • SRS Technologies • California State Parks, Oceano Dunes • Tetra Tech • The Wildlife Society San Joaquin, San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast Chapters

Museum and Group Workshops: Children’s Nature Institute • Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum • Habonim-Dror Winter Camp • Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History • Mountains Education Program • Naturalists at Large • Project Butterfly • Santa Cruz Mountains Natural History Assn. • Shikari Tracking Guild • Sierra Club • Tejon Ranch • This Land Is Your Land Summer Science Camp • Wilderness Institute

Law Enforcement and Military: Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Air Station • Pacific Grove Police Dept. SWAT Team • Vandenberg Air Force Base

Speical Trainings and Group Discounts

One- to multi-day trainings in tracking, wilderness skills, or plant uses are available to groups on a limited basis; mini-mum group size is generally 8 and age requirement is 14 years+.

Additionally, groups of four or more who enroll together in a regularly scheduled Basic Tracking, Wilderness Skills or Plant Uses class qualify for a 15% discount.

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Reservation and Cancellation Policy:

Reservations must be made through advance payment (if the total enrollment fee you are sending is greater than $200.00, you may send a 50% deposit). We cannot guarantee space in a class through telephone calls. Classes are kept small, so reserve early to hold a place.

Cancellations: For weekend or longer classes, you must notify us at least 7 days in advance to receive full credit for another class, or a 75% refund. If you cancel later than that, you risk loss of your enrollment fee unless your space can be filled from a wait list. For one-day classes, you must notify us at least 4 days prior to the class to receive credit for a class or a 75% refund. If you cancel later than that, you risk loss of your enrollment fee unless your space can be filled from a wait list.

Non-discrimination

Earth Skills complies with USDA and other government policies prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion or disability. Any student in a class on National Forest land who believes he or she has been discriminated against should immediately contact the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington D.C. 20250.

Group Discounts

Classes can be scheduled for groups of at least eight people. Rates available on request. Please contact us early to reserve a date.

If your group is small, you may still qualify for a 15% discount if four or more people enroll together in a regularly scheduled class.

Class eligibility:

Our classes are designed for adults and children 12 years and older. (Exception: the Wilderness Skills class is open to 14 years and above.) We put considerable time and effort into the content and pace of the curriculum, knowing that for younger children and families, classes must be structured differently. Please do not ask us to make an exception to admit your younger child; we must say no in fairness to other parents who have not asked for an exception. For classes which require a prerequisite, we may be able to waive the prerequisite if you have had equivalent training elsewhere; contact us to evaluate your situation.

Food and lodging:

For all one-day classes, students bring lunch, water and other simple gear which we will list upon enrollment.

For weekend classes, we usually provide all dinners and breakfasts; students bring lunches and snacks. Usually these classes are held at car campsites, meaning tents can be set up within a short walk from cars (or students may sleep in a camper or van if they drive one). Participants must bring their own camping equipment (primarily tent and sleeping bag). We have limited extra equipment for loan. Lists of required equipment will be sent upon enrollment. No previous camping experience is necessary. Note about food: Students with special diets such as vegan, gluten-free or non-dairy may be asked to supplement what we provide with some of their own food.

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* For vegan, non-dairy, non-gluten & some other diets we may ask you to bring some of your own food.

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