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Portland Animal Harvest Workshops

We are all on a journey back to more real relationships with the land and each other. Growing up in the city, country or suburbs, many of our grandfathers or grandmothers were never able to take us hunting, fishing or wandering in the woods. Together we can change that.

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Bow Hunting April 2008-December 2008
Traditional Hide Tanning Feb 16-17, 2008 10am-3pm

   

Applications for Spring 2008 now being accepted

Mail Bow Hunting Immersion Application in PDF
Email Bow Hunting Immersion Application in WORD

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Bow Hunting Immersion

Only taking 8 applicants per Adult Group and Teen Group

When 6 overnight weekends throughout May 2008-Dec 2008 with additional animal tracking study days
Where Portland, OR

Cost $1850*, $275 deposit due two weeks after application acceptence. Half of remaining tuition due April 18, 2008 remainder of tution due August 8, 2008

*financial assist payment plans available

Join us for a 8 month series and experience a connection to nature few get the opportunity to experience anymore. You are a team of 8 dedicated people, meeting nearly 1 weekend every month while being mentored in the art of traditional tracking and bow-hunting. Make your own traditional wood bow and practice key archery and stalking skills, all the while participating in a energizing and fun independent and group study in nature awareness and animal tracking.

  • Make your own traditional wood bow
  • Simple Survival Basics: orienteering, staying found, emergency survival and basic first aid.
  • Attend First Weekend TrackersClub FREE, a special instructor is assigned to your learning group
  • Learn to track and go on a small game hunt
  • Bonus: go fishing with relaxing days on the river
  • Use our ReWild Guide for independent study
  • Take the hunter's safety course from special guest instructor with a team other TrackersNW students
  • Learn about every hunting method to stay safe in the woods
  • Intensive mentoring in the art of tracking and bow-hunting
  • Go on a deer hunt with instructor support both in early and late bow season

Recognizing that this is a deeply personal rite of passage, we have 2 different learning teams. Camps are always distinct and seperated by geography.

Teen Group (ages 12-17) While many rites of passage program exist to help in that transition for youth to adulthood, we are proud to offer an opportunity that few outdoor education organizations do. Teen Group Weekend Dates May 2-4, June 6-8, July 18-20, August 8-10, **August 29th-September 1, *November 21-23

Adult Group (ages 18-ADULT) Come to this team to be supported as a hunter while sharing a camaraderie you while rarely find anywhere else. Adult Group Weekend Dates May 2-4, June 6-8, July 18-20, August 8-10, *August 29th-September 1 (Hunting Weekend), *November 21-23 (Hunting Weekend)

Mail Bow Hunting Immersion Application in PDF
Email Bow Hunting Immersion Application in WORD

   
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About Hunting

Hunting is called the Great Dance by the bushmen of the Kalahari. We move as the animal to follow it. Stopping where it stops, Seeing what it sees. Hunting by traditional methods means getting closer to the animal and needing to know it VERY well. It feels like a form of wordless conversation with the animal itself.

For hunter gatherers this is life and this is death. As TrackersNW we honor this heritage in ourselves while we recognize the diversity of sensibilities and opinions. So while we do hunt and harvest animals, we ONLY hunt in classes specified for it. TrackersNW honors all animals as relations and life that sustains our own.

 

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