Saturday - Beginning Wildlife Tracking

2341 Ashland Street,Ashland OR 97520

25 February, 2023

Description

We will meet at 9am at the Rite Aid in Ashland and make our way into the Monument from there. We hope to be tracking in the snow so please bring layers to stay warm as well as water and lunch. Join us for a fun, relaxed, and interactive workshop designed to connect you more deeply to the wild animals who live in the Monument and beyond. We will cover some basic tools that will increase your observational skills as well as enable you to find and interpret the tracks and sign left behind by wildlife. We hope to be leading this workshop in the snow where tracks are more easily spotted. The workshop will be co-led by Robin Bliss-Wagner and Collette Streight. NOTE: This Eventbrite is for the Saturday Hike ONLY, register for Friday Talk HERE. Attendance to the Saturday Hike is limited to 20 people. Robin Bliss-Wagner has been teaching and mentoring children, teens, and adults in Deep Nature Connection, survival skills, bird language, and tracking since 2004. Through his unique approach to mentoring, he inspires participants to connect with nature, themselves and community. His own love for the wilderness led him to visit and learn from the Nharo Bushmen of Botswana, live in the stone age without modern items in Washington and Idaho with Lynx Vilden’s Four Seasons Stone Age Living Project, and complete the Kamana Naturalist Training Program by Jon Young. Since 2014, he has been learning from Martin Prechtel in Bolad’s Kitchen. He has also completed many solos in nature with minimal gear, and brings inspiring stories and skills from these experiences into his teaching. Robin is Waldorf graduate, and received his BA in Bioregional Studies with highest honors from UC Santa Cruz. He is a blacksmith, a fiddler, and he lives in Southern Oregon with his wife and their three sons. www.NatureSkills.org Collette Streight, Friends Executive Director, has practiced and taught the Deep Nature Connection principles and practices since 2011. She was mentored by Jon Young for several years, and in 2019, she completed the Shikari Tracker Training Program with Josh Lane of Conscious Nature. Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is a nonprofit organization and our mission is to support the protection, restoration and conservation of the monument through service, advocacy and education. Our Hike and Learn programs are designed to introduce the public to different topics and locations within the Monument. Hike and Learns are co-created with local scientists, historians, artists, students, and more.