The Teaching Drum Outdoor School and Wilderness Awareness School, with the participation of the Wisconsin DNR Wolf Recovery Project, have put together a wolf tracking and behavior intensive. For a full week in February, participants will be taken deep into the heart of a pack's territory, where you will follow wolves on the hunt and learn to read the stories of rendezvous and kill sites. You will be instructed in how track and sign reveals an individual wolf's personality. The intensive will be held in northern Wisconsin's Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, an area rich in wolf activity.
This is a unique immersion experience--you will be living and breathing wolf for the entire week. In addition to participating in a field tracking workshop, you will be eating and rooming in the same lodge as the instructors. This will create a fertile environment for exploring personal interests and making professional connections. The day's fieldwork will be planned out over breakfast, and evenings will be spent around the fireplace in a comfortable lounge. On some evenings, instructors will have a chance to tell their stories and you can recount your day's adventures, while others will be spiced by informal presentations from guest professionals.
Heading up the workshops will be a top-notch team of trackers, behavioral biologists, and wolf recovery professionals who share a passion for wilderness and an intimate knowledge of wolves. Lead instructors David Moskowitz and Dave Scott, from the Wilderness Awareness School (WAS) are accomplished wolf trackers, each with ten or more years of experience. David Moskowitz, author of the upcoming Wolves of the Pacific Northwest and a skilled field researcher, has conducted forest carnivore research and wildlife monitoring in the Cascades for many years. He has been the WAS Wildlife Tracking Coordinator since 2005. Dave Scott is one of only 15 people in North America qualified as a Track and Sign Specialist through the Cybertracker Conservation evaluation system. He has years of outdoor education experience, including teaching positions at WAS and Alderleaf College. He is the lead instructor and co-founder of Earth Native Wilderness School, and he is also the co-author of Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species.
Supporting instruction will come from Tamarack Song, author of the upcoming In the Shadow of Wolf and founder of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School. He brings his experience tracking the areas' wolves and living with a pack for four years. Adrian Wydeven, the state's Wolf Program Leader and head of the Wolf Recovery Team, along with Ron Schultz, a DNR conservation biologist and the project's chief wolf trapper, will spend a day or two in the field with the workshop.
The course is open to 18 participants only. The two lead instructors, joined periodically by Tamarack, Adrian, and Ron, will each head up a team of 9 participants for full days of fieldwork in active wolf territories.
For more information and to register, please see our registration page. If you have any questions, send us an email , or call Tamarack or Leah at 715-546-2944.
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