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Wild Alive Outside

Forest science, ancestral crafts, wilderness skills

Ancestral Crafts

Bear Creek Explorers

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Adventurous youth spend a full-day weekly in the woods practicing forest science, wilderness skills, crafting, and exploring.  This program cultivates nature connection and self-reliance while providing extended time outside with peers. Ideal for ages 10-13.

Wild Ways Family Days

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Community Science

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Blog Posts

Searching for sensors in the sleet

We had a very mild fall, but this week, our first BCE of winter and the first week back after break, Mother Nature finally gave us an authentic Oregon winter experience. But before I dive into this...

Balderdash!

On our first field trip of the year, and our second annual visit to that beautiful piece of land just west of Bear Creek known as Balderdash, we were greeted warmly with giant doggie hugs. Okay, in...

Project Progress

Header photo credit Annabella Waterbury. It’s been a while since we had a rough-skinned newt encounter, but we spotted a little one this week on the way to Plot #3. We were down two explorers...