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Veteran Faculty & Seasonal StaffOr return to Biographies of Kim & Chris Chisholm Carol Gulet, Staff Advisor, Co-Founder of B.C. Primitive AdventuresHometown(s): Vancouver Carol has extensive experience teaching in a variety of settings, and was co-founder of B.C. Primitive Adventures in 1996. She has worked as a counselor at Leyline for several years, and all the students who have attended Wolf Camp can attest to her fun, nurturing, and challenging leadership. She is a graduate of many Tracker School courses, including Advanced Scout, and has become a highly skilled herbalist, survivalist, and teacher. Bill Baroch, M.Ed., Lead Instructor, Storyteller
Hometown(s): Deming, WA Bear Rock is a great environmental educator, consistently disciplined and flexible, hardworking and patient. Bill is very knowledgeable in the realms of ecology and natural history. He has developed a stunningly effective style using story as a technique for subtly sharing insight and information, having been a Professional Storyteller since 1997. He presents to school groups, town festivals, holiday celebrations and private parties, emphasizing stories which celebrate the natural world and human-nature interactions. From 1991-98, Bill was Co-Director & Instructor at Free Spirit Nature Camp in Warwick, NY, conducting six-week summertime camps for 4-12 year olds, presenting pre-camp staff orientation, acting as camp medical director, and planning/implementing activities focusing on nature study and exploration, survival skills and conflict resolution. Bill was also Program Director at Pathfinder Outdoor School in Mountain Center, CA from 1991-92 & 1993-94, administrating the residential outdoor education program, communicating with schools to set schedules, giving school site presentations to students and parents, developing/implementing new classes and programs, and teaching classes in natural science and other outdoor pursuits. Bill was also Teaching Fellow at Montclair State University's N.J. School of Conservation in Branchville, NJ, from 1992-93, where he taught environmental education classes and developed teacher training workshops. From 1990-91, bill was a Naturalist Instructor at Greenkill Environmental Education Center in Huguenot, NY, where he designed and taught classes natural history to grades 410 during 3-5 day visits, using Project Adventure, High Ropes and the Climbing Wall to establish cooperative learning. Bill was also an Environmental Education Intern at Clemmie Gill School of Science and Conservation in Springville, CA from 1989-90, at Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield, IL , and at Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, CA in 1988. Bill was also a Docent at the Nature Conservancy's Lanphere-Christensen Dunes Preserve in Arcata, CA from 1985-88, leading interpretive walks for school groups and the general public which focused on the geology and ecology of the dunes. He was a trail crew member for the U.S. Forest Service in Tongass National Forest,, Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska in 1985, a Wildlife Technician for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks, AK in 1994, working on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, and again a Wildlife Technician for the U.S. Forest Service, Institute of Northern Forestry in Fairbanks in 1993, assisting a biologist on a moose foraging ecology study in Denali National Park. Nikki van Schyndel, Herbalist, Survivalist, Artist, Author of Becoming WildHometown(s): Alert Bay, B.C. Nikki is a 1999 graduate of the Dominion Herbal College, illustrated Wolf Journey - Trail of the Naturalist, and is currently publishing an account of her 2 year primitive living experience in the western wilderness, which you can preview by clicking on this Written Message from Nikki, and once published, you can look for her book Becoming Wild which tells of her primitive living experience with our apprenticeship graduate Micah Fay, where they succeeded in reaching the "stone age living" level all of us in the field wish we could pull off. She was personally mentored in wildlife photography by William Gibbons, a great Rocky Mountain wildlife photographer. She has been a loved volunteer for Wolf Camp since 2000, and our most advanced student having progressed through the Wolf Journey course. Nikki is a natural teacher of children, balancing consistent discipline with extreme fun, nurturing care, and excellent tracking, herbalism, primitive living, and artisanry skills. It is an understatement to say that Nikki is now one of the most highly trained earth skills educators in the field. We don't know of more than a couple other people who claim to have accomplished what she has, and we are more than proud to have her advising us. Nikki is currently running her own wilderness guide programs and selling her prime crafts off the northeast Vancouver Island coast near Port McNeill, B.C. Kate Hedges, Founder of Blue Skies
Hometown(s): Helensburgh and Edinburgh, Scotland Kate Hedges was the first graduate of the our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship. She came specifically to learn earth skills and to learn how a functioning earth skills school ran in order to go back home to found the first official earth skills training institute in Scotland, all in the same year she graduated from the University of Edinburgh. Due to her skill, talents and fun, she made her Blue Skies earth skills training institute a popular success in its very first year! If you live in Europe or are travel in to the British Isles, contact her through us or visit her website directly at http://www.blueskiesearthskills.co.uk/ or telephone (international prefix varies) 0131 228 9608/ 07984 893436 to find out about attending one of her great courses or to arrange a custom-designed programme. Most exciting is that Kate recently acquired a new permanent home for Blue Skies, a beautiful piece of land called Roeburn Wood, and it is situated about 30 minutes walk from Helensburgh, west of Glasgow. It is best accessed by train to Helenburgh Central railway station, a short journey from Glasgow. It's harder and harder for Kate to get free to fly over and teach with us anymore due to her packed schedule at Blue Skies. Krista Rome, Advisor, Environmental Consultant
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA Krista Rome holds a bachelors degree in environmental studies from WWU Huxley College and works at a prestigious wetlands consulting firm in Washington State. She has extensive experience working with native plants, and guiding school groups in habitat restoration. She is also a talented basket and drum maker, and her passion is to live as sustainably as possible on the land, and to teach those around her the values and joys of simple living. Krista was also certified as a Wilderness First Responder. She graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2003 after returning from the Peace Corps in Uganda, taught camps all summer in 2004, and continues to be a close advisor throughout the year. Lorien MacAuley, Lead Instructor
Hometown(s): Mannassas, VA and currently Oak Hill, WV Lorien MacAuley, B.S. in Biology, graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004, and due to her expertise in wildlife tracking & birding, already was a lead day camp instructor in August of that year. She also lived at Wolf Camp as part of our Wolf Journey Ethno-Ecology Apprenticeship, helping to develop our organic gardens and farm animals while also studying earth skills to a great depth. Lorien lead several of our camps in 2005-06. She is Wilderness First Responder certified, and trained in Site/Risk Management. Lorien did environmental research in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest during the summer of 2007. She is currently working at Southern Appalachian Labor School in West Virginia. Scott Fanello, Lead Instructor
Hometown(s): currently Glen Jean, WV Scott Fanello, B.S. in Biology, graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004, and due to unprecedented experience, soon became a lead day camp instructor in August. He lived at Wolf Camp as part of our Wolf Journey Ethno-Ecology Apprenticeship, helping to develop our organic gardens and farm animals while also studying earth skills to a great depth. Scott lead several of our camps in 2005-06, including the development of the Old School Pioneers camp. He is Wilderness First Responder certified, and trained in Site/Risk Management. Scott just finished his masters in stormwater engineering and is planning to relocate to the desert southwest. Jason Patterson, Lead Instructor, Artisan & Survival Specialist
Hometown(s): Woodinville, WA Jason came to us with many years experience guiding wilderness therapy courses, and many years of dirt time with survival skills. He is co-teaching a variety of camps with us this summer, and has been a great help to our program since starting to work with us years ago. He is a great craftsman in the field of primitive skills, and has an amazing, calm, happy, humble and welcoming energy with young people. Chris "Huck" Anderson, Lead Instructor, EMT, Founder of Lost & Found Adventures
Hometown(s): Phoenix, AZ Huck served as our camp nurse and graduated from our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2005, when he also co-taught our Rock Climbing course and assisted with several day and overnight camps as well. In 2006 he ran the GeoTRIP, and he taught a variety of camps for us in 2007. He comes to us with a plethora of previous experience, including as an ambulance driver EMT (he is also a certified Wilderness EMT and also working on achieving his R.N.B.S.). He is a gifted musician, having played with many of the great jazz artists of our time who visited Arizona State University during his years there. Huck has now founded Lost & Found Adventures in Pheonix, AZ, and you can contact him through us or visit his website directly at www.lostandfoundadventures.com or telephone 602-228-0211 to find out about attending one of his great courses or to arrange a custom-designed program. Griz Chambers, EMR, Camp Instructor, ArtisanHometown(s): Crows Nest Pass, AB and currently Calgary, AB Griz graduated from the Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2004. He first came to Wolf Camp as a young camper in 2001, then returned in 2003 as the first graduate of our Youth Mentoring CIT Program. Bill specializes in Primitive Artisanry, with expertise in hunting, fishing, and tracking. He lead our Primitive Fishing and Stone Age Technologies camps, plus co-taught a variety of day camps in 2005. He is an Emergency Medical Responder, a Wilderness First Responder, and is trained in Site/Risk Management. He hails from his hometown of Crow's Nest Pass, Alberta, and is currently developing his own Earth Skills programs near Calgary. Megan Damofle, Camp Instructor, Herbalist
Hometown(s): Seattle, WA Megan completed the bulk of her Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2006, and went on to finish studying herbalism, permaculture and other crafts before returning to complete her training and lead instruct Herbal Medicine and the Seaside Spa in the summer of 2008. Megan hails from Seattle, and her story of self-motivated work and study is inspiring to all, as she has already gained the respect we normally reserve for herbalists twice her age. She recently returned from a 6 month study trip to Peru, and we are looking forward to hearing all her stories at camp this summer! Andrew Twele, Camp Instructor, Artisan & Survival SpecialistAndrew with bass from Woods Lake, followed by pics of his home inside the stump at our old primitive camp.
Andrew completed our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2007 and is then focused on a Year of Outdoor Living at Wolf Camp. He already came to us with great experience teaching hide tanning and other earth skills, and wet on to complete an apprenticeship with Outward Bound in his home town of Baltimore in the spring of 2008 before returning to Wolf Camp and teaching here all that summer. In 2009 he lead wilderness therapy excursions all year for youth at Anasazi out of Phoenix, and in 2010-11, he taught at an Outdoor School in Santa Barbara, CA. Take a look at his own web page at http://www.geocities.com/insidethegourd@verizon.net/ although he is currently living at Tipi Village in Medford, OR. Jay Doyon, Camp Instructor, Permaculture SpecialistHometown(s): Sherbrooke, QU Jay is a permaculture activist, practitioner, and researcher. He has a few years of international cooperation work under his belt, and is engaged in the Ecovillage movement, especially at Earthaven in North Carolina where he did his year-long permaculture apprenticeship. Jay piloted our Permaculture Pioneer Case Study. He is currently studying the caretaking philosophy as defined by the field of earth skills in order to hone his land stewardship skills while making "forest gardening" his specialty. Jay went back to university and will be finishing up next spring, so we're looking forward to having him here in 2010 to facilitate our Cooperative Residential Intensives as well as run our Permaculture Pioneer courses. Glen MacKay, Camp Instructor
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA and currently Oberlin, OH Glen first came to camp in 2002, and has graduated from our ancient scout, tracking, hunter-gatherer and survival series of courses. He returned at age 16 as part of our Youth Mentoring CIT Program in 2004, and completed much of his Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship during the summer in 2006. For his senior project in 2007, he did a solo survival trek and is completed a senior thesis about it. You can read a summary by clicking on Survival Trek Log. Glen co-lead a couple camps for us in 2008, and is attending Oberlin College in Ohio on a nearly-full-ride scholarship, as we mention within our Blog & Forum. Patrick Wiley, Lead Instructor, Logistics Coordinator
Hometown(s): Eugene, OR and currently Walla Walla, WA Patrick first came to camp in 2004, and has since completed a majority of our summer courses, including the Ultimate Tracker. He completed our week-long Naturalist Mentoring CIT course in 2006, then our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in the summer of 2007, and served as an assistant camp instructor in 2008, and became our youngest-ever lead instructor for a couple camps in 2009. Chris calls him his "mini-me, only twice as tall" as he is an outdoor generalist, but naturally gifted teacher (aka knows how to lovingly keep a group disciplined). He hails from Eugene, Oregon, and currently in his gap year, taking a break from Whitman College. James Helms, Camp InstructorJames chillin in the "den" during his youth mentoring training in 2005.
Hometown(s): Snohomish, WA James first came to camp as a wee 9 year old back in 2001 during our first Secrets of the Ancient Scout week on Lummi Island. To his pleasant surprise, we later moved camp to his home town! Attending every year since, including completion of our Naturalist Mentoring CIT course, and our first Ultimate Scout camp in 2005 which requires graduation from nearly all our other camps. He also completed our Pedagogy of Permaculture & Earth Skills Education course in 2008 before assisting at camp, and while finishing our entire Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2009, he co-lead his first camps (Stone Age Artisans and Secrets of the Ancient Scout) which took place at his family cabin. His father is a founding board member of the WOLF Foundation, and his younger brothers have followed James' lead by attending several camps themselves. But it is their upbringing, guided by a benevolent father who taught them all sorts of self-sufficiency (including safe and precise hunting skills) and a go-get-em mother who guided them to great successes (James is a nationally-ranked marksman; Sam is a collegiate-level rower at the young age of 15; Grayson is on similar paths with his own unique talents), which make James and his family stand out so much. Charlie Borrowman, Camp Instructor
Hometown(s): Alameda, CA Charlie first came to camp in 2005 after having attending Hawk Circle in Cherry Valley, NY, and has since completed most of our summer courses, including the Ultimate Tracker. He completed our week-long Naturalist Mentoring CIT course in 2007 and our summer-long Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship in 2009. Charlie is the most amazing lead guitarist and he invented the name of our new Advanced Hobo Arts camp theme running in 2009, and helped to lead Advanced Arts of the Scout this year as well. Aldin Huff, Camp InstructorGreatest Little Tracker at Day Camps in 2000. . . . Thinks-Hes-Hot building the Tee-Pee in 2009.
Hometown(s): Bellingham, WA Aldin is our first former day-camper-turned-instructor! He has always been known as the most naturally-gifted tracker we've had at any camp, and he has always said, even back at age 7, that he was going to become a Wolf Camp instructor and maybe "take over after Chris gets old and feeble." Well, here he is, completing his Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship this summer, after having attended virtually all our camps over the years. Aldin attends Sehome High School in Bellingham, WA. Rachel Edwards, Camp Instructor |
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Employment: We only need instructors with experience running camps and teaching in the field of Earth Skills Education, including skills of the Naturalist, Tracker, Herbalist, Survival Scout, Primitive Artisan, Sustainable Pioneer. Apply to become an instructor through our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship. |
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