Concentric RingsWebsites recommended by our staff
Clothing, Tools, & Supplies CampingSurvival.com - fire starters, survival equipment Acorn Naturalists - resources for the trail and classroom Alder Stream Canvas - traditional canvas packs & great tarps Arrow Moccasin Company - great moccasins, just like Carl Dyer's but cheaper Avena Botanicals - organic herbs, tinctures, and salves Bamboo and Rattan Works - bamboo and rattan supply house Bark River Knife and Tool - fantastic knives Black Ash Pack Basket - beautiful, functional & rugged black ash pack baskets CheaperThanDirt.com - great site for surplus military equipment Dan Gray Knives - custom knifemaker we highly recommend Delorme - maps, map software, and the awesome Gazetter Frosts Knives - good tough inexpensive knives Gransfors Bruks - outstanding Swedish axes Hedgehog Leatherworks - high quality leather sheaths for the Tracker Knife series Just Leather.com - leather supply house King of the Mountain - awesome but expensive camouflage wool clothing Mountain Rose Herbs - bulk herbs and herbalist supplies Old Town Canoe - great indestructable canoes Primal Connection - active member of PaleoPlanet who makes great primitive gear Quoddy Trail Moccasin Company - great moccasins that you can wear everyday Spirit Wings - a good resource for teas, music, jewelry, and new age supplies Steger Mukluks & Moccasins - very comfortable and warm mukluks & moccasins Tentsmiths - makers of authentic period tents, teepees, and awesome oilskin watchcoats The Map Shack - If you need a map, this is the place to get it. The Wandering Bull - American indian craft supplies Wilderness Solutions - fire pistons
Flintknapping Errett Callahan - experiental archaeologist & flintknapper - flintknapped knives, workshops & books Flintknappers.com - knapped points, blades, knives, and arrows Knapper's Anonymous - good flintknapping resource D.C. Waldorf's Knapper's Corner - good flintknapping site - knapped points, books, videos, tools Lithic Casting Lab - casts of stone age artifacts Craig Ratzat's Neolithics - flintknapping supply house Paleo Planet - excellent flintknapping forum
Naturalist Resources Arthur Haines - plant biologist, super genius, and one of our staff Eastern Native Tree Society - for the love of trees ForagingPictures.com - great pictures of edible plants Kjetil Kjernsmo's Illustrated Guide on How to Use a Compass Ingwe's Wilderness Trail - the man, the myth, the legend - we will miss you Manataka American Indian Council - interesting page on eating bugs NatureSkills.com - great nature info NatureTalk.net - Kamana forum Outdoor-Nature-Child.com - nature activities for children Pacific Northwest Hikes - excellent hike planning website Sunrise Land Shrimp - all about edible insects Thomas Elpel's The Art of Nothing - how to be free, a must read The Owl Pages - incredible amount of good info on owls Jake Swamp's Tree of Peace Society - this is the way we will find peace on Earth Wildman Steve Brill - wild edible master - books & videos
Nature & Survival Schools Alderleaf Wilderness College - Monroe, Washington Cody Lundin's Aboriginal Living Skills School - Prescott, Arizona Larry Dean Olsen's Boulder Outdoor Survival School - Boulder, Colorado California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism - Richmond, California Cascadia Wild - Portland, Oregon Earth Connection - Sommerville, Virginia Earthknack - Crestone, Colorado EarthWalk Northwest, Inc - Issaquah, Washington Flying Deer Nature Center - New Lebanon, New York Four Feathers Wilderness Programs - White Plains, New York Great Lakes School of Tracking and Nature Awareness - Western Michigan Hawk Circle - Cherry Valley, New York Tom Elpel's Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School - Silver Star, Montana Human Nature Institute - New Jersey Mors Kochanski's Karamat Wilderness Ways - Wildwood, Alberta, Canada Midwest Native Skills Institute - Cleveland, Ohio Nature Awareness School - Lyndhurst, Virginia Native Ways Association - Cornucopia, Wisconsin Billy McConnell's Past Skills Wilderness School - Bozeman, Montana Chris Nyerges' School of Self-Reliance - Los Angeles, California Joseph Cornell's Sharing Nature Foundation - Nevada City, California Skills Alive - Boone, North Carolina Tactical Awareness School - Virginia Beach, Virginia Gilbert Walking Bull's Tatanka Mani Camp - Hot Springs, South Dakota Teaching Drum Outdoor School - Three Lakes, Wisconsin Clint Smith's Thunder Ranch - Lakeview, Oregon Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School - Waretown, New Jersey Tracks and Trees Learning Center - Watertown, Wisconsin Twin Eagles Wilderness School - Sandpoint, Idaho Jon Young's Wilderness Awareness School - Duvall, Washington Wilderness Learning Center - Chateauguy, New York Wilderness Way School - Owego, New York Wildlore - Tucson, Arizona Ray Mears' Woodlore School of Wilderness Bushcraft - Etchingham, East Sussex, UK
New England Algonquin Archers - Woodbury, Connecticut Avena Institute - Rockport, Maine Bryant Pond 4-H Camp & Learning Center - Bryant Pond, Maine Bushy Hill Nature Center - Ivoryton, Connecticut Delta Institute - Bowdoin, Maine David Brown's Wildlife Services - Warwick, Massachusetts Earthways - Canaan, Maine EarthWork Programs - Amherst, Massachusetts Farm School - Athol, Massachusetts Frost Pond Camps - Greenville, Maine Great Hollow Wilderness School - New Fairfield, Connecticut Jack Mountain Bushcraft - Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire Keeping Track - Huntington, Vermont Leoniak Tracking Services - Marlboro, Vermont Maine Traditional Archers - Maine New England Wild Flower Society - Framingham, Massachusetts Nurture Through Nature - Denmark, Maine R.O.O.T.S. - Montpelier, Vermont Sandy River Outdoors - Solon, Maine Spirit Wings - Bethel, Maine Sunrise Wilderness Skills - Brownville Junction, Maine Vermont Wilderness School - Brattleboro, Vermont Walnut Hill Tracking and Nature Center - Orange, Massachusetts White Pine Programs - Cape Neddick, Maine
Primitive Gatherings Echoes In Time - Oregon Falling Leaves & Rivercane - Georgia Lake Superior Traditional Ways Gathering - Wisconsin Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group - Maryland Maine Primitive Gathering - Maine New England Primitive Skills Gathering - Connecticut Rabbitstick & Wintercount - Idaho & Arizona USM Knap-In - Maine
Primitive Skills ABOtech.com - primitive living skills cyber-shelter Animated Knots by Grog - incredible website on knot tying Bushcraftuk - British magazine Ron & Karen Hood's Hoods Woods - good mountain man survivalists - video series Native Tech - Native American Technology & Art PaleoPlanet - fantastic primitive skills forum, mucho infomatio Paleotechnics - good braintanning site John & Geri McPherson's Praire Wolf - info, books, and videos from people who live it. Primitive Ways - good primitive resource Society of Primitive Technology - awesome organization Stone Age Skills - good collection of abo articles Thunderbird Atlatl - the best in atlatls Henri Vaillancourt's Traditional Indian Birch Bark Canoes - well done website on birch bark canoes Matt Richards' Traditional Tanners - awesome brain tanning resource - articles, tools, & materials Wilderness Way Magazine - good abo magazine Waorani Exhibition - website about the vanishing Waorani people of the Amazon rainforest Wilderness Drum - an information and education resource for wilderness survival, primitive skills, and wilderness spirituality Wildwood Survival - great all around resource - tons of information
Tracking Jim Halfpenny's A Naturalists World - Gardiner, Montana Beartracker's Animal Den - a solid tracking resource CyberTracker - tracking softwear David Brown's Wildlife Services - Warwick, Massachusetts DirtTime.ws - a really good personal tracking website International Society of Professional Trackers - promotes tracking as a profession Keeping Track - Huntington, Vermont Leoniak Tracking Services - Marlboro, Vermont Natural Awareness Tracking School - Christiansburg, Virginia Kevin Reeve's On Point Tactical Tracking School - Vincentown, New Jersey Tracker Trail - information on Tom Brown Jr. and the Tracker School Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School - Waretown, New Jersey Walnut Hill Tracking and Nature Center - Orange, Massachusetts Mark Elbroch's Wildlife Tracking in North America - Tracker Certification Program Wildwood Tracking - good tracking resource
Traditional Archery Algonquin Archers - folks that put on the New England Primitive Gathering & 3D shoot Asian Traditional Archery Research Network - exchange of archery info from the other side of the world George Tsoukalas' website - good info Korean Traditional Archer - interesting site Maine Traditional Archers - these folks host the Poke & Hope shoot in July OL Adcock Custom Traditional Bows - quite excellent information, check out the bow tuning page Old South Traditional Arrows & Archery Supply - very good arrows Paleo Planet - excellent primitive bow making forum Primitive Archer Magazine - good information on building and shooting primitive bows PyroSupplies.com - flax twine for bow strings Stickbow.com - great resource The Beckoning - info on the medieval longbow 3 Rivers Archery - traditional archery supplies The Archery Library - old archery books, articles and prints Traditional Bowhunter Magazine - the name says it all Trad Gang.com - the cyber camp of traditional bowhunters
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