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One Outcome of the Great Covid Pause is that I have begun mentoring individuals from across California and the country to further their tracking, plant medicine and natural history skills. Each mentorship is customized to the skill level, passions and intentions of the individual, allowing us both to expand and grow in our tracking practices. If you are curious and would like more details, please contact me HERE.
Upcoming Classes & Workshops in 2025
North Bay Bear Collaborative partnering with CIMCC on a Tribal Youth Bear Project
January 2025-December 2025 In this program, Tribal youth California Indian Museum and Cultural Center will learn about bears and wildlife conservation while learning from tribal members and elders about how bears are deeply intertwined with culture and food. January-December, 2025 Closed to the public Santa Rosa Junior College- Intro to Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation- NRM 84
January 16th-May 22nd, 2025 Open to the public Join David Berman and me for a UC Naturalist Certification intensive at Bodega Marine Lab. Food, lodging, and all instruction is included as we wander the Sonoma coastline, learn from marine experts, and geek out on all the ocean has to offer. Please reach out to Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods for registration!
University of California Naturalist Certification Program hosted by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods January 17th- January 26th, 2025 Open to the public University of California Naturalist Certification Program w/Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
February 18th-April 23rd, 2025 Open to the public Women Tracking Conference
Stay tuned for opportunities to track in South Africa in July and August, 2025! Open to the public Past Events
Private instruction in Yellowstone National Park and Surrounding Ecosystems
March 15-21st, 2024 Closed to the public Big Sur Wildlife Tracking Class with Wildtender
April 4-7th, 2024 in The Big Cree Big Sur Reserve (Please note this program is still in creation, check back for confirmation) Open to the public Lecture and Discussion with M. Kat Anderson at Santa Rosa Junior College
I will be hosting Kat Anderson as she discusses her journey with Tending of the Wild and her upcoming interests. May 2nd, 9am-12pm, 2024 Attendance by request as space is limited, please email me if you are interested. Wildlife Tracking at Wildlake Dunn Preserve with Land Trust of Napa County
May 5th, 2024 Open to the public Working with Nikki Hill, Grow with Trees and Liberty Utility Company to steward healthy habitats for wildlife in the Tahoe Basin
June 10-14th, 2024 Closed to the public Being with Bears: A Deep Dive into Tracking Bear Behavior, Culture, and Sign
SFSU, Sierra Nevada Field Campus July 26-28th, 2024 Open to the public Renewing Kinship, Nature's Path to Self Discovery
Join Meghan and Koelle for 5 nights in remote Centennial Valley, Montana. Through tracking wildlife across a simultaneously rugged and gentle landscape, we will learn how to build relationships with both the non-human world and ourselves. August 7-12th, 2024 Open to the public Wildlife Tracking and Natural History of South Carolina's Barrier Islands- Come join Caitlin Williams and me for four days of tracking the marshes, wetlands and coastal beaches of South Carolina this November. Save the date and more details will be coming soon.
November 9th - 12th, 2023- class is full Open to the public Join a night of story telling as Meghan shares about her years spent learning from the KomaniSan Bushmen of the Kalahari- Come join Caitlin Williams and me for four days of tracking the marshes, wetlands and coastal beaches of South Carolina this November. Save the date and more details will be coming soon.
Sept 18th, 2023- 6-8:00 pm Open to the public BEAR SAFARI FUNDRAISER
Come support your bear neighbors and the North Bay Bear Collaborative through this unique fundraising event. We will meet in the morning at Pepperwood Preserve and begin with a short slide show and chat about the North Bay's local bears. From there we will head out on the land to enter the lands black bears call home. During this time we will learn their track and sign: tracks, feeding sign, scat, beds, bear marking trees, and more. To end this great day, we will head back to Peppwerwood's Dwight Center for a local and wild foraged meal. For more information, please reach out to Meghan here. September 17th, 2023 Open to the public Volunteer Training for Black Bear DNA Project- North Bay Bear Collaborative (NBBC)
During this training you will learn protocols to collect bear scat and hair for DNA analysis. The training is free and will be three hours. Times still TBD. If you are interested please reach out to Meghan here. July 29th, 2023 at Sugarloaf State Park, Sonoma County (Time TBD) Open to the public Renewing Kinship- Come join us for five days of wildlife tracking, riding trails on horseback, diving into the natural history of Western Montana, and learning to read your internal and external landscapes.
May 31st- June 5th, 2023 Open to the public Tracking Black Bears with Matt Nelson and Meghan Walla-Murphy
Meghan and Matt are teaming up on the fly to offer two days of tracking black bears in Sonoma County. We don't have many details yet, but if you are interested, please reach out to Meghan here. March 14th and 15th, 2023 Open to the public Appreciation Dinner for Volunteers, Members, and Supporters of NBBC
April 8th, 2022 Open to NBBC volunteers, members and supporters Black Bears in the North Bay- A Webinar for Sonoma State University Biology Colloquim
April 11th, 2022- 12:00 pm Pacific Time Open to the public Bear Wisdom- A retreat to learn from the bears about our external and internal landscapes
May 24th-28th, 2022 Open to the public Black Bear Training for Sonoma County Regional Parks
March 9th, 2021 Field Days TBD Closed to the public Kalahari Tracking Retreat- I will be learning from the San in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and then I will continue to get schooled as I visit the Tracker Academy in Tswalu as a guest and lecturer.
August 7th-September 4th, 2019 Not Open to the public Women's Herbal Symposium
Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, CA September 1st - 4th, 2017 Open to public - women and children only space 2nd Annual Four Corners Earth Skills Gathering
EarthStar Retreat Center in Norwood, CO August 6th - 12th, 2017 Open to the public UC Hopland Research and Extension Center - Wildlife and Tracking Workshop
April 22nd, 2017 Not open to the public Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods Tracking Workshop - Bodega Dunes
April 15th, 2017 Open to the public Napa Land Trust - Overnight Tracking Workshop
(more details coming soon) April 8th-9th, 2017 Open to the public University of California Naturalist Certification Program, Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
February 12th - April 12th, 2017 Open to the public - class full Santa Rosa Junior College - Natural Resource Management Class: Wildlife Conservation
Jan 18th - April 12th, 2017 Open to the public - class full Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods Tracking; Seeing Patterns on a Landscape
Bodega Dunes, CA June 12th, 2016 Open to the public Wild in the Wilderness Teacher Training Point Reyes National Seashore Association May 26th & 27th, 2016 Not open to the public Fundamentals of Animal Track and Sign Emerald Earth, Booneville, CA May 22nd, 2016 Open to the public Tracking and Wildlife at UC Hopland Reserve Hopland, CA May 21st, 2016 Not open to the public Bird Language Seminar Oakland, CA May 14th - 15th, 2016 Open to the public Buckeye Gathering - Instructor Lake Concow Campground, Butte County, CA May 1st-8th, 2016 Open to the public Fundamentals of Animal Tracking - Seeing Patterns on a Landscape Land Trust of Napa County April 16th Open to the public Wild in the Wilderness Teacher Training Point Reyes National Seashore Association April 7th/8th, 2016 Not open to the public UC California Naturalist Certification Program Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods March 29th-May 24th Open to the public Wildlife Conservation (NRM 84) Santa Rosa Junior College March 28th-June 1st, 2016 Open to the public - Registration closed TrekSonoma - Inspired Forward Trek from Bohemia Ecological Preserve to the Sea March 21st-24th, 2016 Not open to the public Landpaths' TrekSonoma Staff Training Bohemia Ecological Preserve; Occidental, CA March 7th-8th, 2016 Not open to the public Western Women's Tracking Conference - A Gathering of Women Trackers, Herbalists and Artists Sagehen Creek UC Preserve, Truckee, CA January 15th-18th, 2016 Open to the public Alliance Redwoods Naturalist Staff Training, Occidental, CA January 11th-12th, 2016 Not open to the public Snow Tracking in Jasper National Park Jasper, Alberta, Canada January 5th-9th, 2016 Open to the public Weekend Bird Language and Animal Tracking Class Pepperwood Preserve | Santa Rosa, CA November 7th-8th, 2015 Open to the public California Master Naturalist Certification University of California, Guerneville, CA Sept 30th - Nov 18th, 2015 (1-2 evenings/week, plus weekend field classes) Open to the public Russian River Landscape Connectivity and Kayaking Trip Trek Sonoma - LandPaths October 16th-18th, 2015 Open to the public Gaia Girls Summer Retreat | Gaia Girls Passages: Thriving Girls Become Whole Women Santa Cruz, CA August 4th - 9th Open to the public Introduction to Environmental Conservation Santa Rosa Junior College | Shone Farm Campus, Forestville, CA July 6th - July 23rd, 2015 (M,T,W Th, 9am-1pm) August 20th - December 17th, 2015 (Th, 2-5pm) Open to the public Aspen/Forest Ecology Data Collection with the PhD Candidate Trent Seager High Lonesome Ranch, CO June 10th - 25th Not open to the public The Buckeye Gathering April 25th - May 2nd, 2015 Open to the public Pepperwood Preserve March 28th, 2015 Open to the public 2015 One-Day Tracking Program - Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods March 14th, 2015 Open to the public UC California Naturalist Training Program With Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods February 24th - April 21st, 2015 Open to the public Wildlife Conservation Class at the Santa Rosa Junior College - NRM 12 Spring Semester, 2015 Open to the public Snow Tracking with Sagehen Creek UC Field Station January 9th - 11th, 2015 Open to the public 2015 Advanced Docent Training at Bouverie Preserve January 7th, 2015 Not open to the public UC Californian Naturalist Conference October 17th - 19th, 2014 Western Women's Tracking Conference October 2nd - 5th, 2014 Pepperwood Preserve: Animal Tracking and Bird Language September 14th, 2014 Women's Herbal Symposium August 29th - September 1, 2014 Santa Rosa Junior College | NRM 12: Introduction to Environmental Conservation July 7th - July 24th, 2014 | M-Th, 9am - 1pm A 3-week intensive class for a full-semester of credit UC California Naturalist Program with Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods May 6th - June 10th, 2014 | Six week program, 2 nights per week Hopland Research Station Naturalist Class May 10th, 2014 The Buckeye Gathering April 27th - May 3rd, 2014 Tracking and Trailing with South Africans, Cuyama March 28th - April 2nd, 2014 Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods - Tracking Class February 22nd, 2014 Santa Rosa High School - Field data collection, Armstrong February 13th and 20th, 2014 The Wildlife Society Citizen Science Conference, Reno, NV January 29th - 31st, 2014 Landpaths - Wildlife Camera Citizen Science Field Training January 25th, 2014 |