Advanced Wilderness Skills Course (Basic Skill Class is pre-requisite)

This 3-day course prepares you for an extended stay in the bush, and builds on the basic skills class, which is prerequisite.

Subjects covered are:

Weaponry (atlatl & dart, quickie bow & arrow, rivercane blowgun

Basketry & containers (vine/shoot baskets, ember-burned bowls, rawhide water containers/cooking pots)

Natural adhesives (fish/hide glue, pine pitch)

Utensil-less cooking (pit bake, stone oven, wet-clay baking)

Bone tools (fish-hooks, needles, awls, fiber-processing tools, etc.)

Nature awareness (techniques for enhancing observation skills, tracking/trailing, nightwalking)

Advanced techniques for basic skills

Participants will have a wealth of knowledge (and goodies) to take home from this course, a must for those wanting to take it to the woods for the long haul.

Bo Brown, has worked as a wildlife biologist since 1985 and is currently Associate Director with Ozark Center for Wildlife Research. His career has taken him all over the U.S. and Central America and provided the opportunity to develop a wealth of natural history knowledge. He has presented primitive skills and nature programs for many schools, museums, and elderhostels around the country. Bo co-founded Red Willow Primitive Skills, Inc. with partner Don Brink in 1993 and instructs at several large primitive skills gatherings

Bo also worked as a naturalist for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation in Branson, MO for 9 years, does part-time archaeological work in the Ozarks area for the Center for Archaeological Research, and is a professional musician

A chance meeting and long-time association since 1978 with tribal chief and medicine man Jim Fire Eagle was a major turning point, and set Bo on the path of learning the ancient ways that he follows today. This effort is dedicated to Chief Fire Eagle's memory.