Trailing Wildlife

Apprenticeship

Re-enroll for 3 Months

What's New This Season

Learning Lab Sessions with Nate

Bring your wins and challenges, ask me anything related to trailing. Everyone is welcome, but it is especially for those of you who don’t yet feel that you have a set practice routine. Once a week for 4 weeks.

When: Every Tuesday at 7pm ET from Sept 8-29.

T.A. Sessions with Neill Bovaird

Join Hunter and Trailing Professional, Neill Bovaird, for weekly sessions to ask your questions and share your observations with someone who knows animals from years of direct, intimate experience.

When: Every Thursday at 1pm ET, starting Sept 3.

Guest Instructors

Be inspired by field experts and Trailing Specialists who will add texture to your felt sense of species, landscapes, feeding zones, beds, terrain, and more…

When: once per season.

Monthly Challenges

A monthly practice to help you stay engaged when the trailing becomes challenging, capturing what you’re noticing along the way so you can see your growth unfold over time. A new challenge will be revealed each month.

Buddy Pairs

Option to pair up with a buddy at a similar skill level to share camaraderie, encouragement, discoveries, and provide a little extra motivation to keep you showing up and doing the work.

Restructured Curriculum

Over the next few months I’ll be rolling out restructured modules so they are more streamlined, digestible and motivating.

What Continues This Season

A unique set of field exercises, personalized for you, based on your skills, your substrate, your animals, your weather.

Trailing Community

Engaging, bi-monthly Zoom sessions with mentors, peers, and Nate. A forum available 24/7 for sharing stories, questions, mysteries.

Private Mentoring

Two private 30-minute zoom sessions with Nate. You’ll receive personalized feedback to help hone your practice and direct you in your own plan for certification.

“Trailing Wildlife” Coursework

This self-paced course is built on a core framework and 8 Learning Routines: Awareness, Mapping, Moving on the trail, Finding it, Aging it, Following it, Interpreting it, Approaching the animal.

Video and Audio Tracks

Newly added video tracks show you techniques as Nate does them himself in the field, and you can listen to MP4 tracks as you need them whether you are on-trail or not.

Core Framework

8 training elements: Curated Journals, The Scavenger Hunt: mastering situations, The 8 Learning Routines, The Hot Trail, The Lost Trail, The Fresh Track, The Timing Effect, The Ripple Effect.

The Season of Mastery

3-Months at Your Founding Member Discount

REGULAR PRICE
$900
FOUNDING MEMBER
ONE TIME $750
MONTHLY $275

Keep Learning

To read the freshness of tracks and trails

  • And to recognize when the animal knows you are close

Techniques to stay on the fresh trail when tracks are scarce

  • Quickly recognizing turns and turnarounds

To Predict where to find the trail using weather and landscape

  • Including specifics about favored foods, bed locations, how it stays safe

To picture where the animal is in relation to its group

  • And how experienced animals use where they’ve been to decide where they’re going

How alarms can locate the animal for you

  • Including how quickly the animal is moving and which way it is going

How to move without alarming wildlife

  • And how to match your rhythm to what is happening on the landscape

How to close the distance between you and the animal

  • Without triggering flight, curiosity, or defensive behavior

The ultimate goal is not the track.

The goal is the animal - unaware of you.

100% Satisfaction,
30-Day Guarantee

If you’re unsatisfied for any reason, receive a full refund within 30 days after you’ve re-enrolled in the Apprenticeship, no questions asked.

Ready to Learn the Skill Few People Still Practice?

If you’ve ever wanted to follow a trail and
understand the wild animal who made it.


If you’ve ever wanted to see that animal
without breaking the silence of its world.


Then this Apprenticeship is for you.

👉 Re-Enroll now and begin learning

the art of following wildlife trails.