New England Wildlife Tracking
About
"I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk, I would fain forget all of my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is: I am out of my senses.
What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?"
Henry David Thoreau- Walking
When hunter and gatherers transitioned to agricultural societies, they were still connected with the natural world by necessity. When we transitioned from agricultural to industrial, we still had our senses and motivation to pull us outside. Now, as we are comfortably into the age of technology, we are increasingly motivated and lured into our screens and modern artifice. We are on the verge of losing our connection with the earth, and this reality and its consequences are an existential threat to all wildlife, to our mental health, to our communities, to our spirit, and to our own lives.
Reclaim your birthright as a human being to feel the tactile connection to the life around you. We help you do this by facilitating a re-connection with your physical senses. We use wildlife tracking and bird language as the medium to achieve these goals.
Team member
Kyle Ball
Nature lover to the core. Originally from the plant world, he taught Dendrology at UNH for 4 semesters, and worked as a forester and wetland delineator. He went back to graduate school to study the impacts of climate change and parasites on moose in northern New Hampshire. He holds a level 3 Wildlife Track and Sign Certification from the internationally recognized conservation organization,
CyberTracker North America.
Team Member
Hillary Behr
Teacher extraordinaire. Hillary has decades of experience combining her passion for the environment with teaching. Hillary developed and ran Inyo County's "Taking Root" nature connection program for school children in California. She moved back to her native New Hampshire to get her Master's Degree in Education and taught high school Environmental Science. She completed the White Pine Programs Tracking Apprenticeship and the New England Bird Language Intensive in 2018.
Mission
Our mission is to foster genuine human connection with nature by tapping into our ancestral skills and giving you the confidence and motivation to continue these practices as a way to fulfill and enrich your daily life.
Vision
We see a great need for people to reclaim their connection with nature. We want people to experience what it means to feel truly human. We believe that people will only care for and protect what they know and what have a relationship with. By sharing this ancient knowledge, we believe people will be motivated to protect the life around them and make more informed choices.
