Last updated 10/29/07 04:58:35 PM
Be sure to research a school/club before making a decision to join in on their activities!
Arkansas Dirt Time
http://www.arkansasdirttime.com
We are a group of people studying and practicing wilderness skills all over Arkansas. Groups all over Arkansas mainly in Little rock, Conway and Fayetteville. Please check out the web-page, feel free to post on the forums. Monthly outings and workshops.
Arkansas Tracking Club
PO Box 847
Hot Springs, AR 71902
(501)-624-6140
rossl@juno.com
An informal club that meets once per month, mostly in Hot Springs, AR, but sometimes elsewhere. Their purpose is to teach and practice the art of tracking as taught at Tom Brown's courses.
Nate Summers
n8summers@hotmail.com
The teachings of Wilderness Awareness School, Tracker School, Paul Rezendes, Jim Halfpenny, and Charles Worsham form the basis for the knowledge shared within the club. Open to all levels of trackers, including those that have never looked at a track, the gatherings are often led by Nate Summers, former Adult Programs Director at Wilderness Awareness School. The meeting structure will typically follow the WAS tracking club format placing heavy emphasis on the use of multiple stations and the arts of questioning to gain insights to tracking far beyond focusing on prints. Topics will vary depending upon group dynamics to include human & mammal tracking in addition to naturalist studies and some outdoor skills. There is no fee to participate, though contributions are accepted. We encourage all seekers of ancient wisdom to either start or participate in a tracking club in their community.
Jeremy Hartje
nature(at)riekes.org
The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement
Nature Studies Program - (650) 298-3405
Main (650) 298-2509
http://www.riekes.org
Since 1998, we have held monthly gatherings. We currently draw Trackers from the greater California Bay Area including: San Jose, San Francisco, Napa, Sacramento, and surrounding cities. Tracking is based on teachings of Tom Brown Jr, Jon Young, Paul Rezendes, and Jim Halfpenny. The club is open to all levels from beginner to expert. Our format is small groups progressing between stations where each group is mentoring in tracking.
All interested parties welcome. There are also a number of primitive skills gatherings going on all over the area. We usually meet the ***Second Sunday*** of the month on the coast between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz. Call or e-mail for details, directions, and costs (where applicable).
P.O. Box 502345
San Diego, CA 92150-2345
(760)715-4102
info@sdtt.org
http://www.sdtt.org/
Vision: Foster an attitude of stewardship by promoting awareness and knowledge of our natural world. Mission: Promote the preservation of biologically diverse and sensitive land forms and wildlife habitat in San Diego County and adjacent areas by conducting wildlife monitoring and research coupled with outdoor and environmental education programs.
Mark Tollefson and Mike Kresky
c/o Wilderness Youth Project
3905 State Street Suite 7-518
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-964-8096
mark@wyp.org
We meet on the second Sunday of the month to share primitive skills in tracking, spiritual and earth awareness, and other wilderness technologies. Call for details and directions.
Survival Club of Angwin
c/o Joe Beardsley
P.O. Box 581
Angwin, CA 94508
survivalclub@hotmail.com
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/survivalclub/
About once a month, gets together to go on a skills trip into the woods around Angwin. Since 1993.
Sixth Sense Search and Rescue Tracking Club
c/o Patrick and Annette Archambeau
PO Box 17054
Boulder, CO 80308
303-774-8347
http://www.archwaywild.org/
archway@totalspeed.netSponsored by Archway Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc., a 501C3 non-profit corporation. This club is free and by invite only. Interested individuals must have completed Archway’s tracking classes one thru three, or Tom Brown Jr.’s standard class and meet with Patrick to discuss tracking skills. We are trying to create a group of dedicated trackers to work towards a skill level needed to find lost people.
Stephen Kane
kanes(at)warner.edu
(863)528-3265
Non-profit all area skills club; wilderness survival, tracking, nature, flintknapping. Weekend and day trips, open to everyone in country. Great place to come in winter for weekend. Central Florida, hour south of Orlando. Club is comprised of tracker students who want to practice skills, gain dirt time and share information. Open to all. (nominal fee to cover cost Non-profit).
e-mail: TAG_PSG-owner@yahoogroups.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAG_PSG/
TAG Primitive Skills Group is a regional (Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Southwestern North Carolina and Western South Carolina) group dedicated to practicing survival skills (including shelter, water, fire food), animal tracking skills, and nature awareness skills for harmonious living immersed in nature. Our philosophy teaches sincere respect for the earth and all living things. This group is for lovers of nature who want to learn more.
Ellyn Schmitz
11 Amada Lane
Yorkville, IL 60560
ellynschmitz@yahoo.com
Tracking skills, sweats, survival skills etc... in Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Southern Michigan, and Northern Indiana. 10-15 active members congregate at least on a monthly basis and sometimes hire folks to come in to teach specialty classes (IE Brain Tanning, winter survival, etc..).
Fort Wayne Indiana
aggkelly(at)hotmail.com
419-973-1640
Tom Brown Jr. and Kevin Reeve school graduates. We need reliable responsible enthusiasts to participate in our activities. We are training for search and rescue operations to support local efforts as well as our own personal and team growth.
Stephen Figgins - (785) 766-0113
Lawrence, KS
http://www.plainscraft.com/
We meet monthly to practice tracking and wilderness awareness skills (including plant identification, wild edibles and medicinals, primitive survival skills, bird language, etc.) The events are open to all ages and skill levels. There are currently no fees.
Jeremy Jones
508-231-1834
jaj@pobox.com
http://tracker.editme.com/
Group of people interested in learning, sharing and discovering the philosophy and skills of our native ancestors. "Tracking" means much more than following footprints. It means a deep understanding and awareness of our mother Earth in all of her aspects: animals, plants, physical features and spiritual features.
Michael Patterson
POB 332
Granville, MA 01034-0332
Group getting together irregularly to practice tracker skills.
Phil Zetye
pzetye@hotmail.com
http://www.amherst.edu/~woodsyThis is a group of active folks who meet two times per week at UMASS Amherst. There are many college students in this group, but there are also a significant number of other people who come and contribute. Influences include Tracker type stuff, martial arts, yoga, primitive skills etc. Ages range from very early teens to 50-60?+ Basically this is a supportive and empowering environment for all who wish to train, grow, and share.
Kevin Haney
15664 Kelbaugh Rd.
Thurmont, MD 21788
(301) 271-5023
http://www.mapsgroup.org/
Kevin_Haney@nih.gov
MAPS was founded in 1997. Our purpose is to practice the skills of living close to the earth and to share these skills with others. The group meets every couple of months and anyone of any skill level from the MD, PA, VA, or WVA areas are welcome. We also hold one big rendezvous each year (see website for details).
http://www.jackmountainbushcraft.com/moosedunggazettecurrent.html
TimSmith@JackMountainBushcraft.com
Several of us continue to get together a few times a year, but it is almost always informal.
Mike Krul
44879 Hayes
Sterling Hgts, MI 48313
586-532-0543
spiderman813@hotmail.com
http://editor.qbsoft.com/files/Uretown-Tracys/semichigantracker.htm
Tracker Students from Tom Brown classes interested in working and practicing skills. Passing on of wilderness knowledge, experience and skills to any and all like minded individuals. All areas of interest in Tom Brown Jr. schools courses are welcome.
Dann W. Jones
2869 114th Ave.
Allegan, MI 49010
(616)686-8865
dannwjones@allegan.net
We get together once a month or whenever we can to practice tracking and other wilderness skills.
Jim Ryan
651-227-8591
jimryan37@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Forest/7304/
We meet roughly once a month to practice Tracker skills and to learn from each other.
track_stl@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/track_stl
We are a small group that meets regularly. Please email us for more information!
Contact: Andy Smith, Assistant Program Director
5101-B N. Roxboro Rd
Durham, NC
Phone: (919) 477-2116
Fax: (919) 620-8011
schoolhouse@schoolhouseofwonder.org
http://www.schoolhouseofwonder.org/wilderness_skills.html
http://groups.google.com/wilderness_skillsSchoolhouse of Wonder is a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the people of the Piedmont closer to nature. We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Wilderness Skills club. We are inviting all students of nature studies, tracking, primitive skills, and other related subjects to be a part of our group. We will share resources, skills, stories, playful awareness exercises and inspiration. Meetings at West Point on the Eno Park, see webpages below.
Dan Atkinson
www.PinelandTrackers.comThe Pineland Trackers is an informal group who meet to discuss, practice and learn various primitive skills, with a special focus on tracking. We come from many walks of life, and membership is open to anyone who has a desire to learn these skills. We do most of our learning in an area of New Jersey called the Pine Barrens. This area was once a coastal plain and is composed of mostly sandy soil with scrub oak and pitch pine, dotted with cedar swamps. The Pine Barrens has some very unique areas and offers tracking opportunities for every skill level.
Ancient Skills School c/o
Joe Longshore II
2969 St. Highway 812
Dekalb Jct, NY 13630
(315)347-1373
jlongshore@ancientskillsschool.com
http://www.ancientskillsschool.com/
The Ancient Skills School is currently running one day and weekend classes for any interested individuals or groups. With week long class beginning in 1999. Of course there is no charge for Trackers. This school is run by Joe Longshore and Jason Crosby. As graduates of Tom Brown's Tracker School, thier skills come from many years of his classes and testing thier ability in the wilderness.
Club is forming. Please email above address for more information.
Jon Harshbarger
lharshba@twcny.rr.com
http://www.freewebs.com/cnynaturestudy/
The CNY Nature Study Club has three focus areas - tracking, wildcrafting, and primitive/survival living skills. Each topic has its own group which plans meetings/outings in and around the Syracuse NY area.
Ithaca / Southern Tier Trackers, and Rune Hill Center
c/o Diane Gibbons
(607)589-6392
runehill@clarityconnect.com
Tracking Group is organized out of Rune Hill Retreat and Earth Awareness Center. Meets monthly on a Sunday afternoon 1-4, and occasional longer outings. We go to different spots around the area depending on season, and also have Rune Hill's tracking box to work with when it is incliment weather. An integrated program in Earth Wisdom and Healing includes foundational knowledge to access the energies of Earthly and Spiritual realms. In the program are classes in Tracking and Natural History, Herbalism, Telepathic and Empathic Devewlopment, Working through Personal Blocks, Walking Quests and Spiritual Practice.
http://www.nyctrackers.net
elewis1195@earthlink.netEvents in and around NYC for Tracker Students. Meet local Trackers.
Cincinnati Trackers
Jerry Bargo
513-871-4853
stonestalk@yahoo.com
or
Jim Wachter
513-398-2852
jwachter@cinci.rr.com
http://www.cincinnatitrackers.org
- Main Website
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cincinnatitrackers
- Yahoo! Group/E-Mail list
Active students of Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracking, Nature, & Wilderness Survival School, and /or Jon Young's Wilderness Awareness School, who live in and around the Greater Cincinnati area (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia). Officially founded in 2001. Our purpose is to practice the skills of living respectfully with Mother Earth and all our relatives. We welcome the opportunity to teach and share these skills with others. We meet weekly on Thursday evenings to share and practice skills. We participate in club-generated and other weekend events when they arise usually monthly. Come join in the learning.
The Portland Tracking Club
PO Box 82575
Portland, OR 97282
norma@normaschell.com
http://dirttime.ws
The Portland Tracking Club gets together on the last Sunday of every month for dirt time at Oxbow Park, Gresham, OR. Membership is $15.00 that covers the cost of the quarterly newsletter. The Tracking Club welcomes stories, photos, poems, and art for the newsletter that is related to tracking and the natural world.
Jay Gromiller
716 Allegheny St.
Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
(814) 695-1270
OR
(814) 695-9434
Obtrek@aol.com
HARVEST SONG Tracking Club
c\o HARVEST SONG Nature Awareness Community School
John Canan
610-287-7880
jcanan@reviewnet.net
http://www.harvestsong.org/
Exploring the natural world and celebrating the gift of Life through tracking.
Evan Leonard
Carnegie Mellon University
SMC 4492
PO Box 3015
Pittsburgh, PA 15230
eleonard@andrew.cmu.eduLike the Western Massachusetts Woodsy Club, this is basically this is a supportive and empowering environment for all who wish to train, grow, and
share. Influences of many types, Tracker skills, martial arts, primitive skills, etc.
Mountain Trackers Association
c/o Phillip R. Michael
Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy
325 Lebanon Rd.
Nashville, TN. 37214-2217
(615)741-4461
(615)532-2854
(615)532-2855
fax (615)532-0502
Runkles3@netcomuk.co.uk
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3203/
Mountain Trackers Association is a organization that teaches and promotes tracking with in the general Law Enforcement and Emergency Service Communities, and provide on sight assistance upon request as the needs of the members department or agency will allow.
The Austin Tracking and Primitive Skills Meetup
c/o Nathan Southerland
http://camping.meetup.com/160
This is your opportunity to learn and practice the ancient skills that sustained our ancestors for centuries. In the process, we connect in a deeper way with Nature, the Creator, and one another. Based on the teaching of Tom Brown, Jr., but not affiliated with Tracker, Inc. All are welcome, and graduates of Tracker School courses are especially encouraged to join in.
Piney Woods Primitive Skills
Houston, TX (and surrounding area)
http://groups.google.com/group/PWPrimitiveSkills
We are a group that meets in the north-Houston, TX area (Spring & Conroe) to practice and learn primitive skills, wilderness survival, tracking, ethno-botany and Native American skills. We also want to raise awareness of how people are meant to live with the earth and how we have so far removed ourselves from it.
Holly Stokes
(435) 787-3732
lifewaysschool@hotmail.comUtah Tracker Association is a new tracker club in Utah that is still forming. Retreats are held at the Lifeways Earth Living School, and focus of these retreats is in sharing skills with friends and family of tracker students. We invite all tracker students in Utah area to participate. We do ask a nominal fee for holding the retreats at the Lifeways ranch.
http://www.pacificnwtrackers.com/
Part of the Pacific Northwest Trackers Association. The Association is a non-profit organization in the State of Washington, however there are members from the other Pacific NW states as well. The PNW Trackers are a member of the King County Search and Rescue Association (KCSARA) in Washington State. Mission: 1. To seek and promote excellence in the skills of tracking. 2. To utilize those skills to aid in the location of lost or missing people when needed. 3. To assist law enforcement in situations when tracking skills can be applied.
Chad Wawrzyniak
(802) 485-4337
cwawrzyniak@vsea.orgStephanie Crease
(802) 485-4177
crease3@trans-video.netA group of like minded individuals who meet on a monthly basis to talk and practice primitive skills. No experience necessary, just a desire to learn.
Group is beginning to form. Contact OaktonVa@aol.com for further information.
Tom Cartwright
Wisconsin
cartwright@execpc.comMeets occasionally to track and discuss tracking. Our purpose is that we have a passion for tracking and wish to foster and practice it.
Alberta
Alberta Trackers
Geoff - (780) 479-2615
gch_1148(at)hotmail.com
Doug - (780) 967-2548
djkramer@connect.ab.ca
http://www.dhaynes.com/albertatrackers.htmlVarious activities around Edmonton and throughout the province including classes and social gatherings.
Ontario
Ontario Trackers
Ontario Trackers
Website: http://trackertrail.com/otgroupThe Ontario Trackers group is currently inactive. See Wildwood Trackers.
Orangeville Tracking and Nature Club
Orangeville Tracking and Nature Club
c/o Alexis and Nathan Burnett
Orangeville, Ontario (Canada)
(519) 941-3400
http://trackertrail.com/orangeville
alexisburnett@hotmail.com
naterburnett@hotmail.comWe are basically a group of like-minded individuals who are interested in spending time outdoors and discovering the many mysteries of the natural world. We will be going on scheduled hikes to local areas. There will be 'loose' themes that run with each outing such as Tree identification, Edible/Medicinal Plants, Animal gait patterns, Skills, Winter Tracking, Etc..... Basically Naturalist and Tracker related themes, depending on the interests of people involved. We just wish to gather a group of individuals who wish to learn more about the Natural World. We are open to anyone who is interested, regardless of experience.
Wildwood Trackers
Wildwood Trackers
c/o Walter Muma
(519) 622-6954
Website: http://wildwoodtrackers.com/Wildwood Trackers is located in Southern Ontario. We meet once a month for "Study Groups", which consist of intensive and focused study, practice, and discussion of survival skills, nature (plants, birds, animals, etc), tracking, awareness, caretaking, and more. These one-day sessions emphasize sharing and learning of skills and knowledge. Please visit our website for more information.
David Kremer
E-Mail: david.kremer(at)gmx.de
Website: http://www.scoutclan.de/
We're not for profit, open to anyone interested, and I'll teach what I learned at the Standard and the Back-to-Back. Why? Because it's fun, and because it is my experience that in learning how to live with the earth you gain a new and more holistic perspective on the world around you..
Thomas Coard
Cedar House
CH-1726 Posat
026 411 27 61
E-Mail: tomcoard(at)gmx.netThe Swiss Trackers Association is a multi-lingual group of Tom Brown students and friends that is dedicated to Grandfather’s vision. We meet on the 1st Sunday of every month in our Tipi in Posat in the Canton of Fribourg. Our meetings are in 2 parts. The morning is for those who have taken one or more of Tom Brown’s philosophy classes and is dedicated to spiritual skills; meditation, prayer, healing, spirit travel and ceremony. The afternoon session normally consists of awareness and other skills and is open to anyone of any age and background. We welcome all Trackers and future Trackers. Come with an open heart and join our Tracker Family. All are free to express their vision.
(Ed Note: While not truly a clubs, I have decided to list these as resources for connecting with other local trackers.)
Contact: Del Morris
ISPT
288 Brand Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
del903@sbcglobal.net
http://www.ispt.org
ISPT is a non-profit worldwide organization formed with intent of connecting all categories of trackers. Connection means a newsletter, a website, a "clearinghouse" directory, and any other way of communicating we (all ISPT members) can think up as we grow. The benefits of connecting will be to share knowledge and interest in tracking.
http://www.tracker-gallery.com/
For Tom Brown Jr. Students, TRACKER-GALLERY is an interactive Web Site and allows you to publish and update with immediate release your personal messages and pictures on your Member Page or on the Black Board.
Don't forget: Be sure to research a school/club before making a decision to join in on their activities!
Tracker clubs must meet the following prerequisites:
Once the club meets this criteria, I will need the following information as you would like it to appear in the listing:
Send ALL ABOVE information to: trackerclubs(at)koransky.com, and be sure to let me know that your club meets the prerequisites.
This list contains ALL of the tracker clubs that I know about.