Wilderness Awareness School Village

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We are a fun, nature-loving village of students, parents, teachers, staff, kids, teens, adults and elders...who love Wilderness Awareness School and it's philosophy of living and caring for our planet and each other.
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Building a Emergency Fire in Snow!

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NatureSkills Week-long Program

Added by Laurie Nelson Alexander
Lyrebird

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Nature education, mentoring, wilderness skills, outdoor school, outdoor adventure, birds, plants, tracking for adults, teens and kids!

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Sit Spot

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Birds & Birding

65 members
Sacred Circles

43 members
Elders and Eldership

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Thanksgiving Address

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Latest Activity

PEZ commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

20 of 77 complete! That's 26%! Great week, keep it going now - you are off to a great start. Keep pushing it through...

4 hours ago

Jane Valencia commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

Finished my 20 journals for the week --- I can't believe it! What did I learn today? Well! That Pitcher Plant Family is pretty weird and cool! Their leaves are hollow and vase-like and hold water, and when those pour insects (attracted by nector and…

4 hours ago

Jane Valencia commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

Most interesting thing I learned yesterday: that beets, chard, and spinach and lamb's quarters (all familiar from our gardening) and pickleweed (familiar from my time in baylands) are all in the same family -- the oddly designated Goosefoot Family!…

13 hours ago

Kate Guenther commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

If I were to do plants over again (thank god I don't have to, unless I do again in K4) I would do as you are and focus a bit more on plant anatomy terms early in the process. I sort of blew this off early in my plant journalling and then realized ab…

16 hours ago

PEZ commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

Good job, what was the most interesting thing you learned today?

yesterday

Jane Valencia commented on Jane Valencia's blog post 'Kamana 3:3. Leaving the Primitive Plants ...'

Okay! 5 done today ... and it was pretty painless :-). I think all that pre-plant family journaling was the huge headache for me. This is simple in comparison (except trying to remembering plant anatomy terms!). I passed some time working on getting…

yesterday

PEZ replied to Kate Guenther's discussion 'Could this be Mink track? Help requested.' in the group Wildlife Tracking

Congrats on your ID of the raccoon!

yesterday

Kate Guenther replied to Kate Guenther's discussion 'Could this be Mink track? Help requested.' in the group Wildlife Tracking

No, I wish. It is on a friend's property that is riverfront about a 10" drive from here. Prior to the flooding we had in December, you couldn't really track there, but the floods brought in a whole new silt bar spit. It's a beautiful spot and I'm lu…

yesterday