Jan 22-25, 2009 (Thursday-Sunday)
Spend a fabulous long weekend learning and practicing the art of tracking in both inner and outer landscapes. Rowe’s diverse ecosystem includes mixed hardwood forests where fisher, fox, and coyote roam, rocky ridges that are habitat for bobcat and bear, and wetlands that are home to mink, otter, and moose.
A dynamic staff will lead you into the lives of birds and animals by weaving track and sign interpretation into a broad understanding of New England’s ecology. Journaling and awareness exercises will shift your visual and intellectual perspective, enabling you to see tracks, animals, and yourself in a whole new way.
Workshops include extensive field time. The workshop will cover basic track and sign identification, gait interpretation, ecological tracking, the art of seeing, inner tracking, and much more. We will start Thursday evening and the extra day will cost an additional $85. Women of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. Rowe is proud to offer, for the third time, this excellent program that expands the world you live in .
Mary Sweeney and Lorene Wapotich are the founders of Her Feet on the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to supporting women and girls in developing stronger connections with nature, themselves, and a community of women mentors and role models. Cristina Eisenberg currently is completing doctoral research on wolves and elk in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem and writing a book about the ecological value of keystone predators. Diane Gibbons wrote and illustrated Mammal Tracks of the Northeast and she’s interested in the aesthetic, kinesthetic, and ecological aspects of how tracking expands perception and awareness. Linda Spielman is a Keeping Track chapter coordinator and long time tracker and naturalist near Ithaca, NY. Susan C. Morse has been specializing in tracking and photographing bear, cougar, lynx, and bobcat for over 30 years. In 1994 she founded Keeping Track®, where she is now Program and Research Director. Click if you would like to read an article we published in our newspaper The Center Post.