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Custom Designed Programs

Visit us or we'll come to you with a world of nature and survival using real-life stories, lecture, games, and hands on practice, while imparting skills and knowledge that last a lifetime. The captivating activities we offer will bring you deep into secrets of the neighborhood naturalist, traditional herbalist, wildlife tracker, survival scout, ancient artisan, sustainable pioneer and environmental educator. We are confident you’ll be inspired by the nurturing, experienced instructors from Wolf Camp, and that you’ll walk away with a priceless connection to the natural world.

We contract with all kinds of groups, including:

• Families & Individuals: activities & outings for you
• Schools: presentations and field trips
• Businesses: teamwork challenge retreats
• Scout Troops: badge work of ancient scout
• Military: survival and tracking training to help supplement yours
• Summer Camps: staff training & camper time
• Colleges & University: independent study & credits
• Outdoor Guides: sub-contracts & on-going ed
• Homeschoolers: lessons/classes you value
• Other Group Designs: overnight camping trips and multi-visit skill-building series

Organizing a program is easy:

• Call or email us with your request, idea, or questions.
• We'll write up a simple proposal to send or email back to you.
• You make any suggested changes and send us a small deposit.
• We'll see you on the confirmed date!

Some popular themes have included:

• Birds & Their Voices: our island is a major migratory stop-over for almost every bird found on the west coast, with populations of eagles, loons, herons, owls and songbirds residing here year-round. 4-8 hours or multi-day.
• Animal Tracking: experience nature with premier wildlife trackers, specializing in the arts of tracking and the language of the birds. 6-12 hours or multi-day.
• Wilderness Survival: learn the critical order of survival to gain confidence in outdoor emergency situations, and to keep your family safe even if the lights west out for an extended period back home. 4-8 hours or multi-day.
• Wild Edible Plants: gather delectable wild edibles of the land and sea with some of our region's top herbalists who live right here on Lummi Island, and prepare a feast together using primitive cooking methods. 4-8 hours or multi-day.
• Healing Herbal Spas: we'll bring the Herbal Spa to you, where you can enjoy facial masks, herbal steams, foot soaks, hair rinses, healing teas and other surprizes using herbs gathered right here on the island. 2-4 hours or multi-day.
• Aboriginal Craftmaking: learn the ancient art of flintknapping using slate and obsidian, make authentic hide-drums, spin natural rope from local plants, and make other crafts with our primitive living specialists. 4-8 hours or multi-day.
• Primitive Fire by Friction: yes, it can be done, and you can do it with personal instruction from our staff, making your own bow-drill or other primitive method to make fire like your ancestors. 3-6 hours or multi-day.
• Local Geology & Astronomy: learn about the geology of the North Cascades and Puget Sound, discover stories of our crystal-clear nighttime skies. 2-12 hours or multi-day.
• Local Ecology: learn about wetlands, intertidal life of starfish and sea anenomies, seaside old growth douglas fir trees, reclaimed fields of wildflowers and more. 2-4 hours or multi-day.
• Naturalist Art & Journaling: join our resident nature artist to sketch and create nature writings about the trees, wildflowers, birds, mammals, frogs, ponds, beaches and tide pools of the island. 2-4 hours or multi-day.
• Lostproofing & Orienteering: learn to navigate in nature with and without a compass, using maps of Lummi Island, and embarking on our orienteering challenge designed for all skill levels. 3-5 hours or multi-day.
• Professional Music & Storytelling: join storyteller Bill "Bear Rock" Baroch, M.Ed. and our other instructors around the campfire with songs and tales from on and off the island. 2-3 hours or multi-day.
  

Other topics may also include:

• An Introduction to Earth Skills Education or its parts, such as the Naturalist Mentor, Ethnobotanical Herbalist, Wildlife Tracker, Survival Scout, Ancient Artisan, Honorable Hunter, Sustainable Pioneer and Outdoor Educator.
• Starting on the Wolf Journey Earth Skills Series
• A Day of Survival: Wild Foods, Shelter & Fire
• Primitive Fire by Friction
• A Tour of Wolf Camp: Pioneer Farm, Primitive Craftwork, Sustainable Forestry, Bogs & Wetlands, Tracks & Birds
• The Herbal Salon: teas, scents, steams, masks, and powders for health and vitality
• Edible & Medicinal Plants of Disturbed Soils
• Kayaking to Collect Seaweads (small group)
• Tracking Bears in the Salmon Stream (autumn)
• Fishing on Woods Lake (in season)
• Bird Tracks & Voices
• Wildlife Tracking Field Trip
• Animal Forms & Costume Party
• Pioneering Skills
• Sailing with Sea Mammals
• Campfire Music & Adventure Stories
• See the list of our Wolf Journey Class Series Themes or Academic Year Weekend Workshops Themes and choose any topic you would like us to present, at a time and place that is best. You can also choose from any of our 4 Summer Day Camp Themes, 8 Adult & Family Camp Themes, or 10 Resident Youth Camp Themes.
• Lostproofing, First Aid Scenarios, Emergency Shelter Building
• Flintknapping & Crafts, Hide-Drum Making, Basketry & Cordage
• Wetland/Intertidal Life, Marine Mammals, Astronomy & Geology
• Old Growth Rainforests, Sagebrush Desert Ecology, Alpine/Glacier Ecology\Naturalist Journaling & Sketching
• Using the Wolf Journey earth skills curriculum including the Parent & Instructor Handbook, in your Classroom or Outdoor Program, and arranging high school or college credit for students studying this curriculum: Click on this link to find out how to teach skills of the Naturalist, Tracker, Herbalist, Scout, Hunter and Artisan in your classroom or outdoor program.

For for a price quote on your ideas, just email us or call camp director Chris Chisholm directly.

Keep up the great work! You have really come a long way (since starting Wolf Camp in 1996). I believe in the work you and others are doing to help give the gift of wilderness insight ... to our children, that we might learn these powerful lifeskills in the fullness of nature. - Ricardo Sierra, Founder of the Hawk Circle - Earth Mentoring Institute in Cherry Valley, NY.