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Ongoing:
Hunter Education
Schedule (Statewide)
Tracking Club - Dates: Sundays, 11 AM - 1 PM
Tracking takes constant practice. It takes time with your knees in the dirt or
snow, measuring, drawing, and observing to build the relationships that will
allow you to read the stories of the forest. The club is normally an informal
wander utilizing whatever lessons we come across. Notebooks, pencils, and
measuring tapes are always welcome. The only thing you must bring is your
passion for tracking. Location: Meets at Goddard College lower parking lot in
Plainfield, VT. Cost: Free ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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Scheduled Events:
June 23-25, ACA Coastal Kayak Trip Leader Training and Assessment
Location: Saint Michael's College/Lake Champlain, Instructor: Todd Wright,
Course Fee: $225.00 Does not include lodging or meals. Note: Individuals must
be current members of the ACA before assessment. Todd A Johnstone-Wright,
Director of Wilderness Programs, Saint Michael's College, Wilderness Program
324, One
Winooski
Park ,
Colchester,
Vermont
05439 -
twright@smcvt.edu,
http://www.smcvt.edu/wilderness,
Phone: 802.654.2614, Fax: 802.654.2688.
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June 28 - 29, 2008 Class 2 Whitewater Clinic
(ACA Sanctioned) Beginner level trip with emphasis on
basic strokes and maneuvers for whitewater kayakers, open solo canoers, and open
tandem canoers. When: The clinic is June 28 & 29. Camping will
be the nights of June 27 & 28. Where:
Fife Brook section of the Deerfield River. Meet: Zoar Picnic
Area @ 9:00 AM on Saturday. Craig Carline (aka CJ)
craig.carline@verizon.net
craig.carline@casella.com (weekdays befo! re 5:00 PM) 802-236-7459
Vermont Paddlers Club
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June
28 and 29; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. - -
SOLO Wilderness First Aid
GMC Headquarters Back Forty Lodge, Waterbury
Center
Sign up early – this course fills fast! This sixteen-hour, hands-on course will
prepare you to deal with medical emergencies in the field. The focus is on the
prevention, recognition, and treatment of backcountry injuries and illnesses.
Wilderness First Aid certification or WFR recertification provided upon
completion. Instructors: SOLO staff. Fee: $180.
Juliet
Barash, Group Outreach Specialist,
Green
Mountain
Club,
4711
Waterbury-Stowe Rd.,
Waterbury Center,
VT
05677
(802)
244-7037 Ext. 27
groups@greenmountainclub.org
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July 7 - 13, 2008 - Seven Day Intensive Wild Plants Course
This course is devoted just to the study of wild plants. We will spend the
entire week learning to identify over 90 edible and medicinal plants. Not only
will you get to see these plants, but you will also learn how to gather,
harvest, and prepare them. You'll even get to eat some delicious wild plants.
We usually prepare one whole meal with what we have gathered. You'll learn how
to make all kinds of healing salves, cough syrups, mixtures, essences, soaps,
and tinctures from over 35 common medicinal plants. You'll also learn how to
make flour, cordage and natural dyes. All materials we use during the course
are natural and do not contain any petroleum products. Everything you make will
be yours to take home. This course will be held at our base camp, but there
will be many side trips taken to special areas. There is no prerequisite for
this course. As with all of our courses, each night we will have a great
campfire with interesting and informative group discussions. Cost is $780. The
Wilderness Learning Center, 435 Sandy Knoll Road, Chateaugay, New York 12920
518-497-3179 Email:
wlcwe@localnet.com
www.weteachu.com
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July 10, 11
- East Calais,
Tracking and Awareness Cost:
$150 Deposit: $50
Arguably the oldest human science, tracking takes human cerebral abilities to
their ultimate limits. So much more than simply answering questions, tracking is
an entirely new way of looking at the world. This class is directed at hunters,
naturalists, and any and all who love to read the stories of wild in the earth
beneath their feet. The class will cover the basics of tracking such as clear
print identification, gait studies and interpretation, sign tracking, cluster
tracking and much more. We will spend time looking at compression tracks and
learning to track in different substrates. As well as tracking we will be
discussing the importance of awareness and learn ancient techniques of how to
open your senses to the world around you and observe a greater depth in the
forests.
ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
July 12, 13
Overnight East Calais,
Advanced Tracking and Awareness
Cost: $175, Deposit: $50
The Summer Tracking and Awareness and Advanced Tracking and Awareness are
available as a package for $300.
ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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July 20-25, 2008,
Vermont
Fish & Wildlife Course for Educators
Vermont’s
popular fish and wildlife summer course for teachers and other educators is
slated for July 20-25, 2008, and presently there are still a number of openings
remaining. The hands-on field course that gets educators out into
Vermont’s streams, forests and
wetlands with some of the state’s leading experts takes place at the Buck Lake
Conservation Camp in Woodbury. Now in its 25th
year, “Fish and Wildlife Management for Educators,” is a one-week, three-credit
graduate course taught by Vermont Fish & Wildlife and other Agency of Natural
Resources staff through Johnson State College. Fish & Wildlife’s education
manager, Mark Scott, who has organized and coordinated the program since its
beginning, feels the program plays an important educational role for
Vermont.
Tuition is $400 for the week -- books,
food and overnight facilities included. A course description and schedule of
activities are available from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s website
at www.vtfishandwildlife.com
under “general education.” You can also contact them by calling (802) 241-3701
or emailing janet.finn@state.vt.us.
Buck Lake Conservation Camp in located east of Route 14, north of
Woodbury
Village.
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July 20 - 26, 2008 - Seven Day Basic Wilderness
Survival
This course is a prerequisite to all advanced courses. It
is a very comprehensive course that begins with understanding survival
psychology. Then the fun really begins! We will cover all areas of basic
wilderness survival that includes fire making techniques; constructing shelters
from natural materials; finding and purifying water; utilizing tools and
equipment; using a map and compass, as well as celestial navigation; knots,
ropes, and making cordage; identifying edible and medicinal plants; basic
trapping techniques involving constructing and placement of snares and
deadfalls; organizing and using survival kits (possible bags); fishing;
signaling; how not to get lost; and much, much more. There will be a lot of
classroom and hands-on field training, and both primitive and modern techniques
will be taught. Every skill learned in the classroom will be practiced in the
field. We want you to leave this course feeling totally confident and
comfortable in the wilderness. Nowhere will you find a course as complete and
enjoyable. Cost is $780.
The Wilderness Learning Center, 435 Sandy Knoll Road,
Chateaugay, New York 12920 518-497-3179 Email:
wlcwe@localnet.com
www.weteachu.com
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July 27 -August 2 , 2008 - Seven Day Advanced
Wilderness Survival
This course begins at our base camp and takes the basics
you've learned many steps further. After a review of all previously learned
skills you will learn some new ones. These will include the familiarization of
survival weapons, both primitive and modern; basic wilderness first aid;
tracking and signing; off road vehicle recovery and much more. Then you're
going to put the skills you've learned to the test. Given a minimal amount of
gear, you will set out from our base camp as a group and use your navigational
skills to find a designated location. Once there you will set up a temporary
camp and spend three days and two nights in a simulated survival situation. You
will be provided food (it is simulated and we're not going to let anyone starve
out there), but you will have to improvise with your knowledge, wits, and your
possible bag in order to "survive" your ordeal. Then we'll return to the base
camp for a good meal, showers and a critique of your survival experience.
Cost is $780. The Wilderness Learning Center, 435 Sandy Knoll Road,
Chateaugay, New York 12920 518-497-3179 Email:
wlcwe@localnet.com
www.weteachu.com
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August 1, 2008,
Hunter Education Course, includes Bow Hunter Education
REGISTRATION from 6:00 - 6:30 PM COURSE INSTRUCTION from 6:30 - 9 PM Home study
for two weeks then continue on SATURDAY & SUNDAY, AUGUST 16th and 17th. COURSE
INSTRUCTION from 8 AM - 4 PM Lunch provided. MUST ATTEND ALL SESSIONS. DO NOT
BE LATE! NESHOBE SPORTSMAN CLUB,
97 FROG HOLLOW ROAD
(off Rte 73 east),
BRANDON,
VT.
For more info call Tom
Cram at 802-483-6705
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August 10 - 16 -
Seven Day Basic Wilderness Survival
This course is a prerequisite to all advanced courses. It
is a very comprehensive course that begins with understanding survival
psychology. Then the fun really begins! We will cover all areas of basic
wilderness survival that includes fire making techniques; constructing shelters
from natural materials; finding and purifying water; utilizing tools and
equipment; using a map and compass, as well as celestial navigation; knots,
ropes, and making cordage; identifying edible and medicinal plants; basic
trapping techniques involving constructing and placement of snares and
deadfalls; organizing and using survival kits (possible bags); fishing;
signaling; how not to get lost; and much, much more. There will be a lot of
classroom and hands-on field training, and both primitive and modern techniques
will be taught. Every skill learned in the classroom will be practiced in the
field. We want you to leave this course feeling totally confident and
comfortable in the wilderness. Nowhere will you find a course as complete and
enjoyable. Cost is $780.
The Wilderness Learning Center, 435 Sandy Knoll Road,
Chateaugay, New York 12920 518-497-3179 Email:
wlcwe@localnet.com
www.weteachu.com
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East Calais,
Wilderness Survival Immersion Project 2008-2009
August 10, 2008 - Registration and Deposit Due
The Wilderness Survival Immersion Project is a nine month journey into the world
of wilderness survival skills. The program consists of intensive immersion
weekends focused around the arts of procuring and producing shelter, water,
fire, and food. Tracking and awareness will be a running theme to be built upon
during each weekend. The course will intensify and focus throughout the year
pushing students from beginners to competent and proficient survival
practitioners. The course ends with a four day survival trip in which we will
test our learning and put our trust in the bounty of the Earth.
ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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August 15,
16, 17 Overnight - East Calais,
3 Day Ancient Scout
Prerequisite:
Tracking and Awareness Cost: $350 Deposit: $75
For many tribes of native people, survival depended on the awareness, skill, and
cunning of their scouts. The scouts held the role of protectors by being the
eyes and ears of the tribe. The skills of high speed invisible survival,
stealth, natural camouflage, martial arts, traps, tracking, team movement, and
advanced awareness were all brought to their highest levels by the ancient
scouts who protected our ancestors. This course will be an introduction to this
vast world. Days will be long and filled with a variety of the previously
mentioned skills, and nights will be late with nighttime exercises challenging
students to apply what they have learned. Must be willing to work through
demanding situations in a team and learn through edge experiences. Fast-paced,
high-intensity, and as much fun as we know how to have. As well as the Roots
Instructor Staff, Ben Goodrich, of New England Ninjutsu will joining us to
instruct in basic Taijustsu techniques. ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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August 17 - 23, 2008 -
Seven Day Basic Wilderness Survival
This course is a prerequisite to all advanced courses. It
is a very comprehensive course that begins with understanding survival
psychology. Then the fun really begins! We will cover all areas of basic
wilderness survival that includes fire making techniques; constructing shelters
from natural materials; finding and purifying water; utilizing tools and
equipment; using a map and compass, as well as celestial navigation; knots,
ropes, and making cordage; identifying edible and medicinal plants; basic
trapping techniques involving constructing and placement of snares and
deadfalls; organizing and using survival kits (possible bags); fishing;
signaling; how not to get lost; and much, much more. There will be a lot of
classroom and hands-on field training, and both primitive and modern techniques
will be taught. Every skill learned in the classroom will be practiced in the
field. We want you to leave this course feeling totally confident and
comfortable in the wilderness. Nowhere will you find a course as complete and
enjoyable. Cost is $780.
The Wilderness Learning Center, 435 Sandy Knoll Road,
Chateaugay, New York 12920 518-497-3179 Email:
wlcwe@localnet.com
www.weteachu.com
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August 29-31,
Sept 1 Overnight - East Calais,
Four Day Survival Basic
Shelter, Water, Fire, Food. These are the four things needed by all people to
survive in the wilderness. For millions of years these skills and understandings
of the human family allowed them not just to survive, but to thrive, in almost
every ecosystem on the earth. The first step in the long process of regaining
this information and experience is learning how to provide for ourselves in a
survival situation. To build a shelter that will keep you warm and dry with no
modern tools or materials, to collect and purify water primitively, to build a
fire without lighters or matches and to use it as a tool, and to find and
harvest plants and animals for food, are the core skills that will be taught in
this four day class. Students should expect full days of learning and hands on
workshops and be prepared for hard work and a fast-paced extensive curriculum.
Cost: $500 Deposit: $100 ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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August 29 to 31, 2008, New England
Intermediate Rough Water Symposium
Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
Maine Island Kayak Co
in association with Nigel Dennis Kayaks is again hosting an
Intermediate Rough Water Training Symposium in the warm waters
surrounding Point Judith Rhode Island, USA the weekend of Labor Day, August
29th - August 31st, 2008. Year 2008’s Symposium will again focus on skills and
play geared towards the intermediate+ paddler in rock gardens, surf training and
the tidal streams off of Fishers Island, Ct….home to Race Rock Light; “the Race”
as it’s known to locals. The Race is several miles offshore and provides
current in the 3 knot range on flood and faster on the ebb. A less dramatic and
committed journey is readily available at the other end of Fishers Island, while
still offering valuable tidal work. This year we can access one early morning
flood and an afternoon ebb. Combine that with a lick of wind and our seasonal
storms and conditions would be within the remit to hold our 5 star programs each
day. For more information, visit:
http://www.maineislandkayak.com/symposium.html
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September 5 - 7, 2008 - Natural Resources Management
Academy
Green Mountain Conservation Camp, Buck Lake, Woodbury, VT
Are you a high-school student interested in the environment and ready to
explore, in depth, your passion for Vermont’s natural resources? If you
answered yes to this question, then we have an amazing opportunity for you to
not only explore natural resources management, but also to share a weekend with
peers from around the state that have the same interests. The Natural Resources
Management Academy has been developed for individuals just like you! The Academy
is a weekend full of fantastic learning opportunities aimed at understanding
Vermont’s forests, wildlife, soils and water ecosystems. The program has been
designed to provide in-depth, hands-on field experiences, activities, and
opportunities to learn from the State’s experts. Come and join us for the most
interesting weekend of your year! If you have any questions, please contact
Lauren Traister, 4-H Educator, at 1-866-260-5603 x 103 or
lauren.traister@uvm.edu.
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September
27-29 Overnight - East Calais, VT.
Hide Tanning Workshop
For most of our species’ existence, humans have been using the skins of animals
for clothing, a very important consideration in the art of providing shelter for
one’s self and others. In this 3-day workshop you will learn how to transform a
fresh deer hide into soft, luxuriant buckskin. We will be focusing on the
wet-scrape method, taking participants step-by-step through the sequence of this
ancient process. This workshop is a direct learning, experiential event where
participants learn by doing. Lecture content includes the details of each stage
of the wet-scrape process, as well as what to make with the rest of the animal,
such as the bones and sinew. We will also cover patterns and design ideas for
what to make with the beautiful buckskin that you will tan during the weekend.
Cost: $300, Deposit: $100 Register by August 24 - ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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October 12
East Calais, VT. -
Cooking with Fire and Stone
Cooking and fire have always maintained a close relationship, yet in modern
times that direct association has been largely disguised by the mediation of
stoves and ovens. To cook over a controlled fire is entirely another experience
connecting you to traditions that extend back thousands of years. This class
will cover various techniques of cooking; fire construction and wood selection,
rock boiling, a steam pit or smoke pit, coal roasting, ash and clay baking,
drying and seasoning with wild and local foods. We will also be examining the
different tools employed that are so necessary to preparing and handling food.
While we allow the food to cook there will be materials provided to create your
own container and utensil. Cost: $75,
Deposit: $20
ROOTS School,
www.RootsVT.com
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VOGA members can send your Outdoor Education Events to voen@voga.org
Vermont
Outdoor Guide Association
P.O. Box 10
North Ferrisburg, VT. 05473
1 800-425-8747 (802) 425-6211
info@voga.org
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