Mission & Vision - core principles:

The Nature Immersion program provides culturally responsive, land-based education for K- 12 youth across the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CCT), and Okanogan County . Under the facilitation of Nature Immersion staff, students engage in hands-on and place-based learning that supports social-emotional growth, eco-consciousness, and place-based connection.

What we provide:

Working with school sites and families, we offer immersive field days, eco-camps, and backpacking expeditions that center core teaching principles of:

Ecological stewardship (insert icon)

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Wilderness skills (fire icon)

Skills and topics vary in accordance to the seasonal calendar, age group and proficiency level, but foundational skills may include:

• Shelter building and traditional structures

• Fire making 

• Wilderness medicine

• Outdoor cooking 

• Medicine making and traditional foods harvesting, processing and cooking

• Weaving and cordage

• Hide tanning, rawhide craft

• Bow making

• Wood carving

• Stone, bone, and wood tools

• Bird language 

• Animal tracking

• Naturalist skills

• Storytelling 

• Stealthcraft and awareness 

• Map reading and orienteering

• Backpacking skills and leave no trace

• Seed saving and wild planting

• Equine training, handling and riding

• Forestry work

• Riparian restoration