Wilderness Survival & Awareness Schools



Ancient Pathways
Offers experientially-based courses in desert survival and bushcraft, for those seeking to develop proficiency in both primitive and modern wilderness skills.

Backwoods Survival School
Focuses on wilderness living skills and bushcraft, including fire making, food and water procurement, shelter building, navigation, and primitive tool making. Based in the UK.

Bearclaw Bushcraft
Teaches survival skills and ancient wilderness living skills such as fire lighting, collection and purification of water, shelter building, game preparation and cooking, nature awareness, wild plant identification, trapping, navigation, and the psychology of survival. Based in the UK.

Boulder Outdoor Survival School
Provides a field-based curriculum of wilderness survival skills, including shelter construction, fire building, water procurement, nature observation, and identifying edible and medicinal plants.

Earthwalk Northwest
Programs focus on earth awareness and primitive living skills, including making fire by friction, shelter building, identifying wild edibles, and primitive bow making.

Earthways Nature Education Programs
Adult, youth, and family programs provide mentoring in wilderness survival and primitive skills, such as shelter building, making cordage, tracking, wild food procurement, nature awareness, and primitive crafts.

Jack Mountain Bushcraft & Guide Service
Offers bushcraft and wilderness survival courses, teaching skills such as tracking, use of edible and medicinal plants, fire making, shelter building, and natural crafting.

Living Earth School of Virginia
Programs for children and adults, focusing on the philosophy of living close to nature, wilderness survival, and nurture your connection to the earth. Includes instruction in survival skills, tracking, and native crafts.

Maine Primitive Skills School
Teaches primitive skills, wilderness survival, tracking, awareness, and earth philosophy.

Nature Awareness School
Offers programs in primitive survival skills, nature awareness, edible plants, and tracking as well as spiritual retreats.

Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracking School
Courses teach wilderness survival, tracking, nature observation, primitive tool making, survival philosophy, medicinal plant identification and use, and winter survival skills.

White Pine Programs
Provides programs for children and adults, including courses in wildlife tracking and ecology, wilderness survival skills, and nature awareness.

Wilderness Awareness School
Intensive mentoring programs for youth and adults as well as home-study naturalist training courses. Curriculum includes wilderness survival, nature awareness, ethnobotany, navigation, and winter survival.

Wilderness Learning Center
Full-time, year-round school dedicated to teaching wilderness survival skills, including food and water procurement, navigation, signaling, and wilderness first aid.

Woodland Survival Crafts
Teaches bushcraft and primitive survival skills to individuals and families. Includes instruction in friction firelighting, shelter making, wild food collection and wilderness cookery, water purification, navigation, tracking, and winter survival. Based in the UK.