Feb 1-4, 2007 (Thursday-Sunday)
Spend a fabulous long weekend learning the art of tracking or expanding your skills. We offered this workshop last year and it was so great, we are doing it again. Rowe’s diverse ecosystems include mixed hardwood forests where fisher, fox, and coyote roam, rocky ridges that are habitat for bobcat and bear, and wetlands that are home to mink, otter, and moose.
A dynamic staff will lead you into the lives of birds and animals by weaving track and sign interpretation into a broad understanding of New England’s ecology. Journaling and awareness exercises will shift your visual and intellectual perspective, enabling you to see tracks and animals in a whole new way.
Workshops include extensive field time and cover basic track and sign identification, the art of seeing, gait interpretation, pressure releases, spirit tracking, ecological tracking, search and rescue tracking, and more. We will start Thursday evening and the extra day costs an additional $80. Women of all levels of experience are welcome.
Ruth Ann Colby Martin was Head Instructor for Tom Brown’s Tracker School. where she helped over 1000 people learn the basic arts of tracking, including how to read the life and spirit of the animal or person being tracked. Diane Gibbons wrote and illustrated Mammal Tracks of the Northeast and she’s interested in the aesthetic, kinesthetic, and ecological aspects of how tracking expands perception and awareness. Susan C. Morse has been specializing in tracking and photographing bear, cougar, lynx, and bobcat for over 30 years. In 1994 she founded Keeping Track®, where she is now Program and Research Director. Hannah Nyala’s acclaimed memoir, Point Last Seen, was a CBS movie chronicling her life as a battered and stalked woman who became a search-and-rescue tracker. Her first novel, Leave No Trace, takes place in Australia’s Tonami Desert. Linda Spielman is a Keeping Track chapter coordinator and long time tracker and naturalist. Mary Sweeney and Lorene Wapotich are the founders of Her Feet on the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to supporting women and girls in developing stronger connections with nature, themselves, and a community of women mentors and role models. Other amazing women trackers will share their skills.