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thanks for this!! Very fun! I wish I would have hadit when we trained our voulunteers for the snowshoe program this winter. I need to be checking this more often since you posted this forever ago. :)
Happy Spring,
Karen
I will check around. We might have a taxidermist who would be willing to do a class or let me come watch. It is hard to find anyone who brain tans. So many use chemicals or send it off to a bigger factory to be tanned. We have four hides maybe five…
Intresting article. thank you. I hope to be barefoot a lot more this summer. As a kid I rarely wore shoes and now I am truly a 'tenderfoot' I hope to get my kids to embrace going shoeless. We live in a fairly harsh and rough area in the Southwestern…
Just curious, but have you contacted your local Tandy leather factory?
(if there's one near you)
I have been to several classes at mine and they may be able to helpguide you in the right direction.
they might have a website?
Regular snow shoes. We have 40 kids coming on Thursday but sometimes have up to 60. We just had 64" of snow fall last week so it could be very interesting how this goes ;) If it is a bit snow blown we should stay on top but it is warm today which co…
Hi I just looked at the web site www.anyarose.org and saw that you can pre order it. It says it is coming out in February. I did not see a price though. Maybe netflix will pick it up. That would be nice to pre-view it then buy it. If anyone get the…
Great pictures and story. If have 15 chickens we have them penned at night in a VERY secure chicken house. During the day they free range to help with bug control. I have never had problems with foxes. Maybe I am lucky but I would feel if a fox or o…
Oh I like that. I have my first group this Thursday for a snowshoe program, it is my son's fifth grade class. I will try it there and see how it goes. also I really should not post things when I am tired because I did not mean to make it sound like…
The only trouble I have found with Coyote's Guide is the people I work with who have not read it. It is very difficult to get them to look at another way of teaching our curriculum. "If it's not broke, why fix it" I try hard with my own group and it…
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- Programs/classes you've taken with Wilderness Awareness School?
- Kamana 1 done! :) Working on K2. I have read and re-read Coyote's Guide and have begun using the principles decribed. I love the book and find it helpful, not only in teaching children but in my own daily life.
- Affiliations?
- I am a contract educator for Durango Nature Studies in Durango, Colorado.
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- At 12:19pm on November 24, 2009,
Slug Fan said… - Go ahead and start K2 now. You will do a lot of journaling from field guides and know so much that when Spring comes, you will be surprised how much you learned!
- At 10:58am on August 24, 2009,
PEZ said… - Hi Karen,
Yes, it was me that mentioned that about my son. My son is 11 and is very outward bound with regards to nature. He and his friends love to build debris shelters, start campfires with flint, cammo themselves and hide on each other, etc... He also is a certified hunter having completed his hunter education safety course last summer. So he is very motivated in all this. I got him Kamana for Kids and he pretty much blew through it very quickly. It took him a month or so to complete. I teach him the things that I learn (tree names, edible plants, etc.) He learns from me and enjoys it. His retention is amazing... I will see something and say oh that's the... um... and he fills in the blank for me. Pretty funny. He is also very into tracking. He has drawn the tracks of everything around here and hung them in his room. He has also gotten interested in making plaster casts of tracks.
I think an 8 year old would like Kamana for Kids.
Give it a try... - Paul
- At 11:23am on June 19, 2009,
Beverly Adams said… - I'm looking forward to reconnecting with the natural world. I seem to have lost that over the years. I live surrounded by woods, so I need to learn to be comfortable there. Post office day is Tuesday so I'm hoping my package is waiting for me.
Sounds like you're very busy, but that's a good place to be, most of the time.
- At 9:21am on June 18, 2009,
Beverly Adams said…
- Hi Karen,
Did you start Kamana One? I just ordered it yesterday and am so excited to get started. I'm hoping to get alot of time into it while summer is with us. I'm pretty wimpy in the wintertime. I'm in east central Oregon. Beverly
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