Ambassador Classes
The Forager’s Basket
Karen Magnuson-Sherwood, a skilled basket maker and wildcrafter who teaches workshops on creating containers from foraged materials, often under names like "The Forager's Basket," focusing on natural fibers, wilderness survival skills, and ethnobotany for organizations like The Folk School Fairbanks, Washington Outdoor Women and Earth Walk Northwest.
Karen creates unique containers for wilderness survival using locally harvested materials, incorporating skills from early basket makers, and she leads hands-on workshops for adults, teaching basket weaving and foraging skills, emphasizing connecting with nature and using indigenous materials.
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EEC Forest Stewardship
Liz Crain, owner of Leafhopper Farms, spent her childhood on a horse exploring scrub oak canyons in Oklahoma. She caught catfish bear handed in a small creek behind her grandparent’s house, learned archery at 6, and brought home all kinds of creatures in buckets, pockets, or swimming towels. From wild child in the heartland, she migrated to an Upstate New York boarding school, coming of age in NYC, then retreating to the green mountains of Southern Vermont, where she continued her liberal arts education, majoring in Sociology and writing a dissertation on women in non-traditional occupations. She followed her academic passions into the woods, with a focus on outdoor education. Now, with 20 years of professional experience in the field, Liz brings her eclectic story, passion for learning, and a never-ending curiosity of everything and everyone around her to Washington Outdoor Women. She is excited to share knowledge, learning together with others in this epic natural world. Liz calls herself a survival skills adventurer, enamored naturalist, hunter, trout fisherwoman, restoration farmer, shepherd, writer, and woods wanderer. Contact Liz and EEC Forest Stewardship:
WDFW Hunter Ed for Women
Hunter Education classes oriented to the new female hunter and taught by female instructors. These classes focus on three broad topical areas that include: firearms and outdoor safety, wildlife management, and hunter responsibility. Be sure and select the women’s class when you register.
Human Nature Hunting School
Creating greater awareness of and appreciation for our wild places and instilling confidence and knowledge in new hunters so they can reconnect to their hunting heritage.
Bruce McGlenn has over 35 years of bird and big game hunting experience in the Pacific Northwest. He’s been helping people reclaim their hunting heritage since 1996, officially with the Awaken the Hunter course since 2016.