Bushcraft Northwest – Goldendale, Washington, USA
From their website: Mike Lummio was first exposed to bushcraft over 25 years ago during a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Since then, he has had the good fortune of learning bushcraft and traditional wilderness skills through hands-on training and his own experience. After receiving a Biology/Environmental Science degree from Washington State University, he was able to apply this knowledge of bushcraft while performing field work and research for various organizations around the Pacific Northwest. Working in this capacity streamlined his approach to both wilderness skills and the gear he brought along which resulted in the practical style of bushcraft taught at BCNW. Our curriculum fits well with SAR, ultralight backpackers, military, and outdoor professionals because we use whatever skill or material works best regardless of historical biases.
EarthSkills – Pelzer, South Carolina, USA
From their website: Founded in 2013, the purpose of EarthSkills, LLC. is to help re-acquaint our community with the bounty of Nature and to reclaim the skills our culture once depended on to prosper as human beings.
More than learning and teaching the practical tools needed to survive, my personal goal is to encourage a natural way of life to people discontent with their current way of existing. It is then my hope they will also achieve the spiritual joy and internal peace a clear mind and light heart will offer. – Alex Garcia, Founder, EarthSkills, LLC.
North American Bushcraft School – Hedgesville, West Virginia, USA
From their website: Our goal is to pass on the knowledge and skills necessary to keep our culture’s primitive technologies alive. We strive to provide the most authentic, exciting and affordable courses possible. We believe that the practice of primitive skills fosters self-reliance, personal growth, sustainable lifestyles, and a unique sense of community as well as a deep awareness of the delicate planet we call home.
The North American Bushcraft School is a non-profit because we don’t want to make a ton of money, we want to make a difference. We hope that this status makes it easier for you to both afford to spend some time with us, and to feel good about it. If there is one idea we can get across here, we would want it to be that bushcraft is not solely for the macho military crowd. We welcome and encourage everyone to give it a try. Your brain, after all, is your sharpest bushcraft tool. We can’t wait to see you here on the farm in Hedgesville, WV. Location information
OSR (Outdoor Self Reliance) – Los Angeles, California, USA
From their website: Located in Southern California, OSR’s (Outdoor Self-Reliance) Wilderness Survival and Bushcraft Training is dedicated to providing you with quality outdoor education, helping you be better prepared to handle unforeseen emergencies, while traveling in the outdoors.
With over 20 years teaching experience, courses are designed to help stimulate the student to retain more information, while at the same time help develop critical thinking skills and confidence.
Courses range anywhere from 2 hours workshops to multiple day trips, to help better accommodate your schedule, or learning needs.
Paleo Tracks Survival – Monument, Colorado, USA
From their website: Our END STATE is to build a persons confidence and increase a persons self-reliance in any outdoor situation. Our MISSION is to help people to build knowledge, skills and abilities through teaching sound survival, bushcraft and primitive skills. Our APPROACH is based on first hand, time tested and proven survival training, bushcraft, hunting, wilderness exploration, primitive living and wilderness self-reliance.
Paleo Track Survival instructors are all experienced survivalists, bushcrafters, survivalist and primitive living practitioners with years of experience. Here is a few of out specialties: wilderness self-reliance, primitive weapons, flint knapping, hunting, natural navigation, fire making, tracking, shelter building, game tracking, water procurement, wilderness health/comfort, bushcraft, first aid, cold weather survival, jungle survival, desert survival, low/high altitude survival, and urban survival.
Sigma 3 Survival School – Branson, Missouri, USA
From their website: Sigma 3 Survival School is the largest and most comprehensive survival school in the world. We have more training locations and survival instructors around the globe than anyone else by a landslide, thanks to our Survival Instructor Program. We have had the privilege over the last decade to train 100’s of survival instructors from the outdoors industry and they are available for private/group bookings almost anywhere in the world.
SIGMA 3 Survival stands for Scout, Survive, Sustain. Which encompasses our philosophy of wilderness explorations combined with bushcraft skills. The idea behind our philosophy is that we teach you all the primitive skills you’d ever need to know to survive anywhere in the world, and then use those primitive skills to supplement or replace your survival gear needs.