The people doing the teaching.

Learn to Return Training Systems

Anchorage, AK

Alaska's longest-running full-spectrum survival school since 1986, offering aviation survival, outdoor survival, offshore survival, and medical training in Anchorage.

Matanuska Outdoor Institute

Anchorage, AK

Anchorage outdoor education nonprofit running 4-day Survival Skills Workshops at a campus overlooking the Matanuska Glacier in the Talkeetna Mountains backcountry.

Randall's Adventure & Training

Gallant, AL

Long-running North Alabama school offering Intro to Survival and 3-day Advanced Bushcraft courses covering friction fire, flint knapping, cordage, wild edibles, and primitive trapping.

The Southern Herbalist

Gadsden, AL

Darryl Patton's north Alabama wilderness and herbal training school on Lookout Mountain teaching brain tan buckskin, primitive skills weekends, herbal studies, and wilderness medicine.

True Adventure Sports

Fort Payne, AL

Fort Payne training center on Lookout Mountain offering 6-8 hour Survival Element classes and a 5-day, 120-hour Survival Instructor Course covering shelter, fire, weapons, and navigation.

Arkansas Survival School

Houston, AR

Veteran-owned civilian school in the Ouachita region offering tiered Survival Foundations, Sustained, and Intensive courses plus one-day workshops in firecraft, navigation, and trapping.

Sigma 3 Survival School

Survival skills training with classes nationwide.

Aboriginal Living Skills School

Prescott, AZ

Cody Lundin's school teaching modern wilderness survival, primitive living, and urban preparedness in the high desert.

Ancient Pathways

Flagstaff, AZ

Tony Nester's desert and mountain survival school offering bushcraft and primitive skills courses in northern Arizona since 1989.

Reevis Mountain School

Roosevelt, AZ

Off-grid school of self-reliance founded by Peter Bigfoot in the Superstition Wilderness, focused on homesteading, herbalism, and survival skills.

4 Elements Earth Education

Nevada City, CA

Earth skills school teaching shelter, water, fire, food, and tracking through programs in California and partner sites in other states.

ForageSF

San Francisco, CA

Bay Area wild-foods school founded in 2009 by Iso Rabins running guided walks and classes on wild plants, edible seaweeds, and mushrooms across San Francisco and the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Quail Springs Permaculture

New Cuyama, CA

450-acre permaculture demonstration site in the Cuyama Valley offering PDCs, natural building, and homesteading apprenticeships.

School of Self-Reliance

Eagle Rock, CA

Christopher Nyerges's school teaching wild foods, survival skills, and Native American crafts in Southern California since 1974.

Thomas Coyne Survival Schools

Irvine, CA

Multi-location California survival school (LA, San Diego, San Francisco) plus Alaska offering certification courses and weekend classes.

Urban Outdoor Skills (Pascal Baudar)

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles-area foraging school led by author Pascal Baudar offering weekly Sunday wild-foods classes plus workshops on wild beer brewing, fermentation, and pickling foraged ingredients.

Backcountry Pulse

Boulder, CO

Colorado Front Range wilderness medicine school accrediting the Colorado Mountain Club's WFA and WFR curriculum with evidence-based, trauma-informed instruction.

Desert Mountain Medicine

Crested Butte, CO

Colorado wilderness medicine provider operating since 1998 delivering WFA, WAFA, WFR, and refresher courses at multiple mountain-town locations across the state.

Earth Knack

Crestone, CO

Robin Blankenship's school offering primitive skills, wilderness treks, and sustainable living courses since 1990.

The Survival University

Colorado Springs, CO

Colorado wilderness survival school running courses on a 3,000-acre mountain camp, including a 50-day instructor immersion.

Two Coyotes Wilderness School

Newtown, CT

Nonprofit nature mentoring school offering tracking, fire-making, foraging, and wilderness skills programs across Connecticut since 2000.

Crooked Path Forge

Gainesville, FL

Gainesville-based forge running regular one-day and two-day knife-making classes covering forging, heat treat, wooden handles, and leather sheath construction.

Eat The Weeds

Orlando, FL

Green Deane has led weekly four-hour wild edibles, mushroom, and medicinal plant foraging classes at parks across Florida for roughly 20 years.

Ethos Bushcraft & Survival

Paisley, FL

Central Florida bushcraft and survival school teaching primitive navigation, fire building, shelter construction, water filtration, and knife skills at the FSW Deep Woods Training Facility.

Florida School of Holistic Living

Orlando, FL

Orlando-based nonprofit offering in-person plant walks, weekend intensives, and a nine-month Community Herbalist Program at locations across central Florida.

North Florida Survival

Fargo, FL

Florida-Georgia border school offering multi-day primitive camp courses on private property near the Ocala National Forest, teaching tool crafting, navigation, and disaster preparedness.

The FOLC Farm

Gainesville, FL

Gainesville-area farm offering year-round weekend workshops in wilderness first aid, outdoor education, and homesteading skills for adults and children.

Byron Kerns Survival School

Madison, GA

Wilderness survival school near Madison, Georgia run by a former US Air Force SERE instructor.

Fiddleback Forge / Fiddleback University

Norcross, GA

Knife-making school led by maker Andy Roy offering one-on-one one-day and two-day stock-removal knife-making classes at the Fiddleback shop outside Atlanta.

Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center

Mountain City, GA

Appalachian heritage center in north Georgia offering workshops in traditional crafts including weaving, blacksmithing, and woodstove cooking.

Georgia Bushcraft

Bushcraft school and host of the Georgia Bushcraft gatherings.

Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club (W4AQL)

Atlanta, GA

Atlanta amateur radio club running the annual Ham Radio Boot Camp that teaches everything needed to earn a Technician Class license, open to the public.

Medicine Bow Wilderness School

Dahlonega, GA

Mark Warren's 35-acre school in the Chattahoochee National Forest teaching primitive skills, tracking, archery, and Cherokee plant lore.

SARCRAFT

Canton, GA

North Georgia school offering Wilderness Survival, Land Navigation, Camping, Women in the Wild, Firecraft, Bushcraft Knots, Wild Edibles, Axemanship, and Wilderness First Aid.

Hawaii Survival School

Kahuku, HI

Oahu-based school at Gunstock Ranch offering island survival training adventures, wilderness first aid, and family-friendly courses covering primitive shelter, friction fire, and wild foods.

Twin Eagles Wilderness School

Sandpoint, ID

Nature-connection mentoring school offering wilderness immersion, tracking, ethnobotany, and gap-year programs in the Inland Northwest.

The Wild Nature Project

Penfield, IL

East-central Illinois organization at Middle Fork River Forest Preserve running an annual 3-Day Wilderness Survival Skills Workshop covering natural shelters, friction fire, cordage, and wild edibles.

Wildlife Prairie Park

Hanna City, IL

Central Illinois park near Peoria offering full-day Survival Skills classes for ages 14+ and wild edibles classes covering plants of the Midwest.

MALC Training Institute

Trafalgar, IN

Central Indiana institute offering bushcraft and primitive skills courses for ages 14+ covering primitive weapon and tool making, shelter, and water procurement.

Marc Adams School of Woodworking

Franklin, IN

Large dedicated woodworking school in central Indiana offering full-week workshops in traditional woodworking, hand-tool work, carving, and related craft disciplines.

White Pine Wilderness Academy

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis academy on Rocky Ripple island offering adult tracking intensives, bow building, and wildlife courses plus youth nature-connection programs.

Willow Haven Outdoor

Anderson, IN

Creek Stewart's 21-acre survival and disaster preparedness training facility in central Indiana.

Blackthorn-USA

Randolph, KS

Outdoor adventure school on 430 acres in the Flint Hills offering Knife Only, Primitive Living, 90-Day Full Immersion, braintan buckskin, blacksmithing, and practical off-grid living courses.

Nature Connect Survival School

La Cygne, KS

Kansas school an hour south of Kansas City running two-day immersive wilderness survival courses on a published spring schedule for all ages and family groups.

Nature Reliance School

Survival, tracking, and self-reliance skills training led by Craig Caudill.

Boston Amateur Radio Club

Boston, MA

Boston-area ARRL-affiliated club running a Ham Radio Basics educational series, regular VE exam sessions, and licensing support for Technician through Extra.

Earthwork Programs

Williamsburg, MA

Wilderness education school teaching survival, tracking, and nature awareness through workshops and camps in western Massachusetts.

Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts

Washington, MA

School in the Berkshires teaching timber framing, homebuilding, and woodworking through 2-day to 2-week workshops.

Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival

Groton, MA

North-central Massachusetts school led by a former Air Force SERE Specialist offering intro to advanced wilderness survival classes for ages and skill levels.

Ancestral Knowledge

Brentwood, MD

Nonprofit teaching tracking, primitive technology, and earth-skills through homeschool, family, and adult programs across Maryland.

W.F. Moran Bladesmith and Artisan Academy

Middletown, MD

ABS-approved school at the historic Bill Moran Home Forge offering classes on knife making, forging, and Damascus steel for all skill levels.

Jack Mountain Bushcraft

Long-form bushcraft and northern woodland skills programs.

Koviashuvik Maine Local Living School

Temple, ME

Working homestead and education center teaching folk arts, primitive skills, and sustainable living on a 100-acre farm.

Maine Primitive Skills School

Augusta, ME

School teaching ancestral skills, survival, and earth living on 49.8 acres outside Augusta, with classes from one day to eight-week immersions.

New England School of Metalwork

Auburn, ME

A nonprofit metalworking school in Auburn, Maine offering ABS-certified bladesmithing and blacksmithing programs with eight forging stations, power hammers, and a hydraulic press.

Wilderness Medical Associates International

Portland, ME

Provider of wilderness medical training for medical professionals and outdoor communities, with licensed instructors hosting courses across the US.

Arcturus Primitive Skills Institute

Whitehall, MI

Arthur Knapp's Michigan school offering bushcraft, primitive skills, navigation, and preparedness weekend workshops.

Living Afield

Sterling, MI

Northeast Michigan homestead-based school offering classes in wilderness survival, bushcraft, disaster preparedness, edible/medicinal plants, land navigation, trapping, and fishing.

Tillers International

Scotts, MI

Nonprofit on 220 acres in southwest Michigan teaching homesteading skills including blacksmithing, ox-driving, timber framing, and sustainable gardening.

Four Season Foraging

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis-based foraging school led by certified wild-mushroom harvester Maria Wesserle running year-round sliding-scale workshops on wild edibles, morels, and poisonous plant ID.

Minnesota Bushcraft & Survival

Scandia, MN

Scandia, MN school offering Introduction to Modern Survival, three levels of Primitive Survival Skills, Campfire Creations, and an advanced KNIFE ONLY course.

Minnesota Primitive Skills and Survival School

Mankato, MN

School between Mankato and St. Peter teaching water purification, shelters, traps, friction fire, and edible/medicinal plant identification with no modern resources.

North House Folk School

Grand Marais, MN

Folk school on the shore of Lake Superior offering courses in traditional northern crafts, foodways, shelter, sustainable living, and outdoor skills.

First Earth Wilderness School

Rogersville, MO

Bo Brown's southwest Missouri school offering private 1-4 day stone-age survival courses in friction fire, flintknapping, cordage, basketry, hide tanning, and primitive weaponry on the Niangua River.

Hammerspace Community Workshop

Kansas City, MO

Kansas City makerspace offering regular weekend bladesmithing and railroad-spike knife classes open to non-members alongside its broader blacksmithing curriculum.

Aerie Backcountry Medicine

Missoula, MT

Montana-based wilderness medicine school offering WFA through Wilderness EMT and semester-length backcountry medicine programs.

Dutch Oven Outfitters

Livingston, MT

Paradise Valley, Montana cast-iron cooking school offering two-hour to ten-day hands-on classes on cooking over open fire, coals, wood stoves, and propane.

OWLS / Green University (Hollowtop)

Pony, MT

Thomas Elpel's Montana school teaching wilderness survival, primitive living, foraging, and sustainable shelter through immersive programs.

Royal Tine Camp Cook School

Philipsburg, MT

Backcountry Montana camp cooking school led by Dutch oven expert LeRee Hensen offering two-week and four-day courses on Dutch oven, wood-fired, propane, and campfire cooking.

Holistic Survival School

Asheville, NC

Luke McLaughlin's Blue Ridge Mountains school teaching primitive skills, foraging, hide-tanning, and a 10-month immersion program.

John C. Campbell Folk School

Brasstown, NC

The oldest folk school in the US, offering weekend and weeklong classes in craft, cooking, gardening, blacksmithing, and nature studies.

Landmark Learning

Cullowhee, NC

Southeast US partner of NOLS Wilderness Medicine, offering wilderness medical training and swiftwater rescue courses from a campus in the Smoky Mountains.

Living Web Farms

Mills River, NC

Western North Carolina nonprofit farm offering year-round workshops on regenerative agriculture, biochar, and homesteading skills.

Penland School of Craft

Penland, NC

Long-established Blue Ridge Mountains craft school offering one- and two-week iron workshops including Damascus blade making, traditional blacksmithing, and utensil forging.

Rhythm & Ritual School of Handcraft

Marshall, NC

Wild Abundance

Asheville, NC

Natalie Bogwalker's earth-skills, permaculture, and carpentry school offering rewilding, foraging, and bushcraft classes near Asheville.

Coyote Bushcraft

Troy, NH

Southwestern New Hampshire school offering a published year-round calendar of wilderness survival, bushcraft, land navigation, foraging, mushroom ID, and winter survival classes.

NH Outdoor Learning Center

Wolfeboro, NH

Lakes Region school offering Wilderness Survival 101 covering multiple fire-lighting techniques, shelter construction, water purification, and navigation for civilian outdoor enthusiasts.

Outdoor ESCAPES New Hampshire

Freedom, NH

Western White Mountains school at High Meadow Farm offering year-round 1-day and 2-day primitive survival, navigation, knots, snares, and animal tracking courses.

SOLO Schools (Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities)

Conway, NH

The oldest continuously operating school of wilderness medicine in the world, offering courses from Wilderness First Aid to Wilderness EMT.

Peters Valley School of Craft

Layton, NJ

A nonprofit craft school in the Delaware Water Gap offering 125+ adult immersion workshops including five-day beginning bladesmithing with Kydex sheath construction and blacksmithing.

Practical Primitive

Great Meadows, NJ

Julie Martin's school offering bushcraft, primitive skills, wilderness survival, and traditional living classes since 2007.

Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School

Asbury, NJ

Founded by Tom Brown Jr. in 1978, teaching wilderness survival, tracking, and nature awareness courses based on Apache scout traditions.

Rift Valley Bushcraft

Rio Rancho, NM

Albuquerque-area desert bushcraft school offering Basic Skills, Advanced Skills, Food Gathering, Bow Making, and Modernized Primitive Weapons courses for adults 18+.

The Tracking Project

Corrales, NM

John Stokes's nonprofit established in 1986 offering tracking, survival, and natural awareness camps in northern New Mexico.

High Sierra School of Survival

Reno, NV

Northern Nevada school led by EMS and public safety professionals offering wilderness survival, wilderness first aid, and disaster preparedness training.

Adirondack Folk School

Lake Luzerne, NY

Year-round folk school in the Adirondacks teaching Adirondack chair building, twig and rustic furniture, blacksmithing, basketry, boat building, and other regional traditional crafts.

FLXMUSHROOMS

Ithaca, NY

Finger Lakes mushroom school led by certified wild-mushroom forager Stacey Estabrook offering edible-mushroom identification classes and cultivation workshops in Ithaca and Binghamton.

Mountain Scout Survival School

Survival, bushcraft, and scout-skills training in New York.

Primitive Pursuits

Ithaca, NY

Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H program offering wilderness skills, tracking, and primitive technology classes since 1998.

Rochester Arc + Flame Center

Rochester, NY

An 11,000-square-foot training facility in upstate New York offering ABS-certified two-week Intro to Bladesmithing courses plus Damascus and chef knife workshops.

Smugtown Mushrooms

Rochester, NY

Rochester-based mushroom education project running workshops, foraging classes, cultivation training, and the Deep Creek Mushroom Camp focused on wild-fungi identification and use.

Wild Earth

High Falls, NY

Hudson Valley nonprofit offering wilderness survival, crafts, and nature awareness programs on 135 acres for youth, families, and adults.

Wildman Steve Brill Foraging Tours

New York, NY

Foraging walks led for more than 30 years through New York City and metro-area parks identifying and preparing wild greens, roots, and mushrooms.

Medicine Scout

Northeast Ohio primitive living and wilderness survival school with a published 2026 course catalog teaching skills learned from Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School.

Midwest Native Skills Institute

Seven Hills, OH

Tom Laskowski's school offering wilderness survival, primitive skills, and urban survival training since 1997.

Pathfinder School

Bushcraft, survival, and self-reliance school founded by Dave Canterbury.

Pioneer Survival Company

Delaware, OH

Central Ohio school founded in 2016 offering courses at Delaware State Park covering 72-hour emergency survival, urban survival, navigation, homesteading, and woodcraft.

Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA)

Troy, OH

A long-running ABS-approved school at the Miami County Fairgrounds offering blacksmithing and a two-week Intro to Bladesmithing class led by ABS Master Bladesmith instructors.

Refuge Medical

Broken Arrow, OK

Oklahoma-based trauma kit manufacturer and training facility offering Wilderness Responder, tactical medicine, and radio communications courses.

Nighthawk Naturalist School

Bend, OR

Central Oregon naturalist school in Bend offering adult immersions and workshops in plant ID, herbal medicine, friction fire, water purification, foraging, flintknapping, and tracking.

Oregon Survival School

Blue River, OR

Owner and director Mark J. Wienert offers world-class weekend survival training for men and women. Wienert offers classes for beginning and advanced students in outdoor survival skills, useful wild plants, bushcraft, animal tracking, and nature awareness.

Primal Skills Academy

Bend, OR

Central Oregon school offering wilderness survival, bushcraft, ethical hunting, and self-reliance training led by Alone Season 7 alum Joel.

Rewild Portland

Portland, OR

Portland nonprofit offering a 12-month Bushcraft and Survival Immersion meeting one weekend monthly, plus Resilient Skills Series, friction fire, and fiber arts workshops.

Trackers Earth

Earth skills, naturalist training, and family programs in the Pacific Northwest.

Wild Food Adventures

Portland, OR

Portland-based foraging education founded by John Kallas, offering workshops and multi-day intensives on edible wild plants.

WildCraft Studio School

Portland, OR

Portland and White Salmon studio school offering 200+ classes per year in foraging, plant medicine, mushroom forays, native arts, leather working, and natural dyeing.

Coalcracker Bushcraft

Bushcraft and primitive skills school led by Dan Wowak.

Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education

York, PA

York PA agricultural education farm running a 10-week Forager Training Program, monthly foraging walks, fungi series, and homesteading and growing classes.

Northern Appalachia School

York, PA

Pennsylvania-based school offering hybrid programs in bioregional herbalism, wildcrafting and foraging, nature connection, and ecological stewardship.

Touchstone Center for Crafts

Farmington, PA

A 230-acre craft school in the Laurel Highlands south of Pittsburgh offering one-to-five-day immersive blacksmithing, metals, and traditional craft workshops.

Charleston Amateur Radio Society

Charleston, SC

ARRL-affiliated South Carolina club providing licensing resources, structured class support, and a Laurel-accredited VE team running bi-monthly Technician, General, and Extra exam sessions.

Hagood Mill Historic Site

Pickens, SC

Upstate South Carolina historic site offering hands-on classes in blacksmithing bushcraft, primitive fire making, railroad spike tomahawk forging, hearth cooking, and pioneer skills.

Mushroom Mountain

Easley, SC

South Carolina mushroom research and education center led by Tradd Cotter offering the multi-state wild-mushroom food-safety certification course required to legally sell foraged mushrooms.

The Woodsrunner School

Clinton, SC

South Carolina civilian school offering Survival 101, wilderness survival, bushcrafting classes, backcountry navigation, and wilderness first aid.

Trail Blazer Survival School

Union, SC

Wilderness survival school on 22 forested acres in Union County adjacent to Sumter National Forest, offering year-round beginner through advanced courses and summer day camps.

BigPig Outdoors

Townsend, TN

East Tennessee Smoky Mountains school led by a former Park Ranger offering Survival 101, Wilderness First Aid, Land Navigation, Foraging, and Tracking classes.

Nolichucky Outdoor Learning Institute

Erwin, TN

Northeast Tennessee school running March-November wilderness survival, bushcraft, and navigation courses in Cherokee National Forest and Rocky Fork State Park.

Sequatchie School

Chattanooga, TN

Multi-location Tennessee school teaching firemaking, shelter, water and food collection, trapping, and trauma medical care across Chattanooga, Cookeville, and McMinnville.

Sojourner Fieldcraft

Tennessee Ridge, TN

Greater Clarksville school led by a retired Green Beret offering civilian bushcraft and survival courses and guided expeditions at a private training outpost.

Survive 72 Survival School

Paris, TN

Veteran-owned West Tennessee school running weekend Basic Survival Courses plus add-on classes in map reading, primitive traps, pioneering, and tracking.

The Turner Farmstead

Mason, TN

West Tennessee 15-acre family homestead outside Memphis offering year-long Farm School covering gardening, animal husbandry, food preservation, foraging, and bushcraft.

Bill Moran School of Bladesmithing at Texarkana College

Texarkana, TX

The world's first school dedicated solely to bladesmithing, established in 1988 in partnership with the American Bladesmith Society and offering hands-on forging, heat treating, grinding, and finishing courses.

Camp Tonkawa

Collinsville, TX

North Texas outdoor learning center offering Primitive Survival classes in shelter, water, fire, food, plus hide tanning, edible plants, family survival camps, and tracking.

Earth Native Wilderness School

Bastrop, TX

Dave Scott's Central Texas school offering wilderness survival, tracking, and naturalist programs for adults, teens, and children.

Primitive Wilderness Survival

Chico, TX

Phillip Liebel's school in north Texas teaching ancestral skills — bow-drill and hand-drill fire, blade work, primitive shelter, and wilderness survival.

Texas Emergency Amateur Communicators

Houston, TX

Texas-based amateur radio club focused on emergency communications, running scheduled Technician, General, and Extra license classes alongside exam sessions.

Texas Survival School

Survival, preparedness, and bushcraft training in Texas.

The Human Path

San Antonio, TX

School outside San Antonio teaching clinical herbalism, wilderness medicine, survival, off-grid engineering, and homesteading.

Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS)

Boulder, UT

Wilderness skills school operating since 1968, known for 7-, 14-, and 28-day field expeditions through southern Utah's canyon country.

Wilderness Medical Society

Salt Lake City, UT

Nonprofit professional society hosting wilderness medicine CME conferences and adventure-based clinical courses across the US.

Center for Wilderness Safety

Fairfax, VA

Nonprofit wilderness medicine education organization in northern Virginia offering Wilderness First Aid, WFR, and Wilderness First Aid Afloat courses, partnered with the Wilderness Medical Society.

Earth Connection

Fredericksburg, VA

Licensed Virginia school founded 1997 by Tim MacWelch offering one-day primitive skills courses in friction fire, winter wild edibles, tracks and sign, basketry, and primitive trapping.

Living Earth School

Charlottesville, VA

Nature-based education school in the Blue Ridge Mountains offering wilderness skills, tracking, and bird language programs.

Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School

Wilderness survival, navigation, and family programs in Virginia.

Polyface Farm

Swoope, VA

Joel Salatin's pasture-based farm running on-farm seminars, tours, and a multi-month Boot Camp stewardship program.

Sacred Plant Traditions

Charlottesville, VA

Charlottesville center for herbal studies led by Kat Maier offering in-person beginner classes, a three-year clinical program, and weekend workshops in herbal medicine.

Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing

Waynesboro, VA

Virginia's only state-certified artistic blacksmithing school offering weekend courses in hatchet building, Damascus knife making, forging, and an ABS-approved two-week Intro to Bladesmithing course.

Roots School

Bradford, VT

35-acre school run by Brad Salon and Sarah Corrigan teaching primitive wilderness skills, traditional crafts, and tracking year-round.

School of the Forest

Southern Vermont school offering weekend bushcraft, canoe poling, paddle carving, wilderness first aid, week-long family bushcraft, and a year-long Friluftsliv immersion program.

Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism

Montpelier, VT

Montpelier clinical herbalism school offering a 1,200-hour, three-year Clinical Herbalist program with required six-day in-person summer intensives plus public classes and community clinics.

Vermont Wilderness School

Brattleboro, VT

Nonprofit nature-based mentoring organization offering wilderness survival, tracking, and naturalist programs for all ages.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School

Waitsfield, VT

Vermont nonprofit teaching sustainable design and construction, including natural building, tiny houses, and timber framing.

Alderleaf Wilderness College

Monroe, WA

Nature and survival school teaching wilderness survival, wild edible and medicinal plants, wildlife tracking, and permaculture in the Puget Sound region.

Bushcraft Northwest

Goldendale, WA

Mike Lummio's school (founded 2006) offering bushcraft fundamentals, wild foods, winter bushcraft, and urban survival courses in the PNW.

Earthwalk Northwest

Issaquah, WA

Frank and Karen Sherwood's school (founded 1995) teaching bushcraft, ethnobotany, hunting, tracking, and primitive skills near Mount Rainier.

Living Wild

Twisp, WA

Lynx Vilden's Methow Valley program teaching Stone Age living skills, hide tanning, primitive fire, and ancestral immersion projects.

Raven's Roots Naturalist School

Ferndale, WA

Pacific Northwest naturalist school running 9-10 month immersion programs and short workshops in ethnobotany, wild foraging, herbalism, permaculture, tracking, and wilderness survival.

Remote Medical International

Seattle, WA

Seattle-based provider of Wilderness EMT, WFR, and WFA courses for the public, businesses, NGOs, and government agencies.

Wilderness Awareness School

Nature mentoring, tracking, and naturalist training programs.

Wilderness Medicine Training Center

Winthrop, WA

Provider of wilderness medicine courses and outdoor program risk management training since 1997.

Wolf Camp and School of Natural Science

Puyallup, WA

Pacific Northwest school operating since 1997, teaching wilderness survival, wildlife tracking, and wild edible and medicinal plant workshops.

Driftless Folk School

Viroqua, WI

Folk school in the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin teaching homesteading skills, herbalism, natural building, wilderness skills, organic agriculture, and traditional folk arts.

Forager's Harvest (Samuel Thayer)

Bruce, WI

Author Samuel Thayer's school in northwestern Wisconsin offering weekend foraging and plant-ID classes, late-summer gatherings, and ecoculture workshops on tending wild spaces.

Lost Creek Adventures

Cornucopia, WI

Lake Superior school in northern Wisconsin offering Modern Survival, Wilderness Survival, winter camping, and a progressive four-level Earth Skills curriculum.

Teaching Drum Outdoor School

Three Lakes, WI

Nonprofit nature-immersion school in northern Wisconsin offering a year-long wilderness guide program and ancestral skills training.

North American Bushcraft School

Hedgesville, WV

Jason Drevenak's nonprofit farm-based school offering bushcraft, wilderness survival, and primitive skills courses in the Eastern Panhandle.

NOLS Wilderness Medicine

Lander, WY

Wilderness medicine arm of the National Outdoor Leadership School, teaching WFA, WFR, WEMT, and WUMP courses at sites across the US.

Wounded Bear Medicine

Jackson, WY

Teton-area wilderness medicine school offering WFA and WFR courses (in-person and hybrid) in Jackson WY and Victor ID, certified through WMA International.