Nature Alive

11/24/2024

We have a few spots available for our Survival Snaring and Tracking weekend Dec 7-8.

It's a full immersion into making snares, deadfalls, processing, cooking, and eating snowshoe hare, and wildlife tracking. Heated Cabins available plus hot tub and showerhouse at our Nature Center.

Here is the video from a previous course, and the link to course registration:

https://youtu.be/Uy4NVB_nt4M?si=7HDJ55ZXmberG8-4

https://naturealiveadventures.com/products/animal-tracking-workshop-february-12-2022

Highlights from our recent Survival Snaring & Trapping Course.

11/18/2024

I'm grateful to have my older brother as a mentor to me.

I owe a lot of my success as a professional outdoor instructor and guide to my brothers influence from a young age.

Slide #1 is one of my fondest memories of my brother taking me up to "Squirrel Town" to make a fire, cook beans, and shoot the .22 caliber rifle. On that day, I learned that it helps to invent nature names for nature places in the bush - like Squirrel Town.

Slide #2 is my brother and I enjoying a day of hunting - 45 years later. How cool is that.

Thanks brother.

I'm grateful that you helped to deepen my passion for adventure and hunting in our wonderful Wild places.

11/01/2024

Four Professional Instructors are collaborating to bring your the most comprehensive winter wilderness skills course series in Canada.

Three exceptional winter skills courses - Expert Instructors collaborate to bring you the option of taking one, two, or all three courses in the amazing wild...

10/30/2024

Join us for our Survival Snaring and Animal Tracking Workshop Dec 6-8. 2024.

Visit our trapline as a bonus to the workshop.

Join us for a weekend of Survival Snaring and Wild Animal Tracking at our magnificent Boreal Forest Adventure Center. Learn how to read animal tracks and sign to determine what animals are in your area. Discover methods to quickly and effectively identify potential trapping areas in order to secure....

10/30/2024

Spreading Dogbane a useful plant that grows on roadsides all over Alberta. This is how you find it, identify it, and use it's strong fibres to make tough rope or cord.

Find, Identify, and process Spreading Bark fibers for making super strong rope(cordage) for snaring or bowstrings.

10/10/2024

Highlights from Moose Camp 2024

Thanks to Al Wardale of Moose Country Outfitters for having my along to guide hunters.

Guiding Hunters with Moose Country Outfitters in Moose Camp 2024

10/07/2024

Moose number two. This gentleman hunter is unable to walk more than a few steps and I was able to call this Bull Moose to him so that he could fulfill a lifelong dream to see and harvest a Moose. Thanks to Moose Country Outfitters and Professional guide Al Wardale for asking me to help guide this season.

10/01/2024

Thanks to Moose Country Outfitting and Professional Outfitter Al Wardale for having me help out as a guide in Moose Camp 2024

09/26/2024

Join us at our Larch March Open House October 4-6, 2024. Free Camping, rent a cabin, or just pop by for the day. More information under "all Courses and Trips" at Www.naturealiveadventures.com

09/24/2024

Three Incredible Courses - Three Professional Companies

One Remarkable Collaboration:
Survival Training, Bushcraft Trapline Course, and Winter River Trekking.

Join us for one, two, or all three weeks in the wilderness of Canada.

Bruce Zawalsky - of the Boreal Wilderness Institute an Bestselling Author or Canadian Wilderness Survival.

Dale and Colleen Kiselyk - of Nature Alive Adventures and Adventure Centre.

Ross Hinter - of North Trapping and Bushcraft.

Boreal.net
Www.naturealiveadventures.com

https://youtu.be/ivHewjhUINI?si=jYW3VbWSVJwf7LMc

Three exceptional winter skills courses - Expert Instructors collaborate to bring you the option of taking one, two, or all three courses in the amazing wild...

09/20/2024

With Boreal Wilderness Institute – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

09/19/2024

Can you boil water in waxed paper and plastic bottles??

Yup!!!

09/17/2024

This is going to be awesome.

6-Day Skill Building one-of-a-kind Winter Survival & Bushcraft Trek

09/06/2024

Join us for our Bushcraft Trapline Course - An Interactive Trapline Experience - January 19 to 25, 2025.

NEW THIS YEAR - we are excited to be collaborating with Bruce Zawalsky (Bestselling author of Canadian Wilderness Survival and owner/instructor of The Boreal Wildernness Institute) and offer the option to take up to three consecutive week long courses on Winter Survival, Bushcraft, and Winter Wilderness Trekking.

Week One: Winter Boreal Survival Course
Week Two: Bushcraft Trapline Course -An Interactive Trapline Adventure
Week Three: Winter Survival Trek up the Freeman River Watershed

Find information at our websites:
https://naturealiveadventures.com/collections/courses
https://boreal.net/

Here is the video from 2024

https://youtu.be/zF0kTc2iXnI?si=_u7cy0Ht4rCLZ_db

Highlights from our week long Bushcraft Trapline Course January 2024

08/21/2024

Peeling Spruce Bark and building Spruce Bark Shelters -Wikiup

How to Peel Spruce Bark and build a few shelters

08/16/2024

Happy Anniversary to us! It just keeps getting better!
Spent a romantic day teaching kids and are now celebrating by driving home from Grande Cache.

08/16/2024

Canoeing the Sulfur and Smoky River. These are WOW rivers.