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Web of Life Field (WOLF) School offers a residential outdoor science school where students take part in activities such as miles of hiking trails, high and low ropes courses, volleyball, basketball, and team building programs. The program also includes an outdoor classroom, DIY (do-it-yourself) Family Camps, a Summer Nature Day Camp, marine science, water sports, backpacking, kayaking, surfing, swimming, gardening, campfires, and music.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Since 1989, WOLF School has been dedicated to providing engaging and impactful educational outdoor experiences for California’s K–12th grade students. Its mission is “Building respect, appreciation, and stewardship within the web of life.” WOLF School operates as a mission-driven and student-focused non-profit at multiple professionally maintained camps throughout California, and its residential outdoor science school is aligned with California state standards and NGSS-supportive thinking. Programs are adapted to support each individual student group.
Program Directors and Naturalists hold college degrees and are professionals in environmental education, with backgrounds in science, history, community-building, education, and working with youth. The leadership team includes Heather Butler, Director; Desiree Gant, Associate Director; Sergio Typhoon, Program Coordinator; and Marie Kraemer Wegrich, Naturalist. Heather Butler graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. in Human Biology and Comparative Literature and received her Teaching Credential from Chapman University in 2005, is a member and past president of California’s Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE), and is a past board member of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. Desiree Gant attended UC Santa Cruz where she earned a B.A. in History with a minor in Education and earned her Masters in Elementary Education at Loyola Marymount University. Sergio Typhoon earned both his Bachelor of Science in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and a Master of Science in Biology from UC San Diego.
WOLF School is the educational component of United Camps, Conferences and Retreats (UCCR), a private non-profit camp and conference management organization dedicated to “creating partnerships to provide positive life-changing experiences.” WOLF School thanks Save the Redwoods League for supporting WOLF School and works with schools and organizations to connect youth with nature, empower individuals, and strengthen communities. WOLF School maintains a scholarship fund to give equal access to students for California science camp programs, and a camp store where proceeds benefit the WOLF School Scholarship Fund. Rules for acceptance and participation in programs at UCCR are the same for everyone without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin.
WOLF School educators took part in the first statewide virtual conference of the Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE). One teacher from Deterding Elementary in Carmichael stated that “WOLF School’s naturalists are passionate about what they’re doing and use multiple modalities to reach every student.” A student journal entry described an experience by saying, “It took my breath away, so perfect and vivid that you ask yourself is this real. You think not even the best technology can be so beautiful.” A teacher from Easterbrook Discovery School in San Jose said that “In these days of standards-based education, the naturalists at WOLF School remember that, along with the facts, there should also be joy in the scientific process. They instill in their students an appreciation for close observation and an understanding of global issues. Best of all they make us feel as if we’re the first ones to walk a creek or stand under a redwood; they make each experience new and exciting.” A WOLF School naturalist described working in the redwoods with kids and shared that “Once you get the group in a perfect circle and have them look up and see a perfect circle formed by the redwood grove that they are now standing in, they are instantly hooked.”
Last updated June 15, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Since 1989, WOLF School has been dedicated to providing engaging and impactful educational outdoor experiences for California’s K–12th grade students. Its mission is “Building respect, appreciation, and stewardship within the web of life.” WOLF School operates as a mission-driven and student-focused non-profit at multiple professionally maintained camps throughout California, and its residential outdoor science school is aligned with California state standards and NGSS-supportive thinking. Programs are adapted to support each individual student group.
Program Directors and Naturalists hold college degrees and are professionals in environmental education, with backgrounds in science, history, community-building, education, and working with youth. The leadership team includes Heather Butler, Director; Desiree Gant, Associate Director; Sergio Typhoon, Program Coordinator; and Marie Kraemer Wegrich, Naturalist. Heather Butler graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. in Human Biology and Comparative Literature and received her Teaching Credential from Chapman University in 2005, is a member and past president of California’s Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE), and is a past board member of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. Desiree Gant attended UC Santa Cruz where she earned a B.A. in History with a minor in Education and earned her Masters in Elementary Education at Loyola Marymount University. Sergio Typhoon earned both his Bachelor of Science in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and a Master of Science in Biology from UC San Diego.
WOLF School is the educational component of United Camps, Conferences and Retreats (UCCR), a private non-profit camp and conference management organization dedicated to “creating partnerships to provide positive life-changing experiences.” WOLF School thanks Save the Redwoods League for supporting WOLF School and works with schools and organizations to connect youth with nature, empower individuals, and strengthen communities. WOLF School maintains a scholarship fund to give equal access to students for California science camp programs, and a camp store where proceeds benefit the WOLF School Scholarship Fund. Rules for acceptance and participation in programs at UCCR are the same for everyone without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin.
WOLF School educators took part in the first statewide virtual conference of the Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE). One teacher from Deterding Elementary in Carmichael stated that “WOLF School’s naturalists are passionate about what they’re doing and use multiple modalities to reach every student.” A student journal entry described an experience by saying, “It took my breath away, so perfect and vivid that you ask yourself is this real. You think not even the best technology can be so beautiful.” A teacher from Easterbrook Discovery School in San Jose said that “In these days of standards-based education, the naturalists at WOLF School remember that, along with the facts, there should also be joy in the scientific process. They instill in their students an appreciation for close observation and an understanding of global issues. Best of all they make us feel as if we’re the first ones to walk a creek or stand under a redwood; they make each experience new and exciting.” A WOLF School naturalist described working in the redwoods with kids and shared that “Once you get the group in a perfect circle and have them look up and see a perfect circle formed by the redwood grove that they are now standing in, they are instantly hooked.”
Last updated June 15, 2026.
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