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Wild Nature Project Summer Camps offers activities that include Nature-Connection, Wilderness Survival Skills, Wildlife Tracking, Nature Studies, and Emergency-Preparedness. Program options include Youth Forest School, Forest School ages 7+, Little Turtles 4-6yrs, Little Turtles Day Camp, Dragonfly Camps, Friday Nature Nights, Spring Break Camp, St Croix Teen Spring Break Day Camp, a Wilderness Survival Skills Quest, a Couples Workshop, and homeschooler classes.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Homeschooler classes restart in February on Wednesdays for ages 6+.
Wild Nature Project Summer Camps has been celebrating 23 years of Nature-Connection, Wilderness Survival Skills, Wildlife Tracking, and Nature Studies since 2003 and describes itself as a Midwest source for nature, wildlife tracking, medicinal plants, youth programs, teen camps, and wilderness survival skills. The program uses mentoring strategies that include storytelling, questioning, demonstration, challenging, listening, timing, and observing individual and group energy and emotional states. Summer camp enrollment uses a lottery list process through an online Camp List Form, with children drawn starting on Sunday March 1st, and the St. Croix Teen Camp is currently full with a waiting list. Families have access to a customer sign-in link with a customer area to pay balances and check registration status.
The leadership team includes Kevin Glenn (Director, Youth Mentor, Adult Programs Instructor, Nature Mentor, Podcaster), Gabe McMahan (Youth Mentor), Ethyl Ruehman (Youth Mentor), Josh Jackson (Youth Mentor, Little Turtles Teacher), and Eliza Dowd (Little Turtles Teacher). Listed training and education for leadership include a B.A. in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, completion of “The Immersion” 9-month program at Wilderness Awareness School in 2001, an Apprenticeship with Mark Morey of The Institute for Natural Learning in 2002, Hawk Circle's Wilderness Instructor Training Program (8-week immersion) in 2003, and ongoing study at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School since 1999. Additional experience includes serving as an instructor for “The Art of Mentoring” week-long workshops from 1999–2015, lead instructor for Wilderness Initiations into Adolescence for teenagers, and martial arts practice since age 11 in Filipino Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Credentials and certifications include Track & Sign Level III certified tracker from CyberTracker North America (2021), Certified Movnat Level 1 Trainer (2023), Certified Thriving Relationship Coach from the Center for Thriving Relationships, and Wilderness First Responder certification.
The stated vision is to foster deep connection to nature, to self, and to each other through immersive experiences, recognizing that humans are nature and that inner nature and vision are described as a gift to others. The stated mission is to facilitate connective and meaningful experiences for people of all ages through immersive experiences in the natural world and to be mentors of connection, consciousness, creativity, and passion. One parent, Abby Meyer, states that her family was able to send their girls to Wild Nature Project the week they moved to Bloomington and that they have been thankful since, describing the opportunity to be outside and learn about nature as invaluable and saying, “We love, love, love WNP!” Another parent, Anastacia A, states that her boys have been attending Wild Nature Project for years, that Kevin and his co-teachers are “the best,” and that she feels her children get a “wonderful chunk of time in nature” and learn a lot, adding, “Send your kids here whenever you can!”
Last updated May 14, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Homeschooler classes restart in February on Wednesdays for ages 6+.
Wild Nature Project Summer Camps has been celebrating 23 years of Nature-Connection, Wilderness Survival Skills, Wildlife Tracking, and Nature Studies since 2003 and describes itself as a Midwest source for nature, wildlife tracking, medicinal plants, youth programs, teen camps, and wilderness survival skills. The program uses mentoring strategies that include storytelling, questioning, demonstration, challenging, listening, timing, and observing individual and group energy and emotional states. Summer camp enrollment uses a lottery list process through an online Camp List Form, with children drawn starting on Sunday March 1st, and the St. Croix Teen Camp is currently full with a waiting list. Families have access to a customer sign-in link with a customer area to pay balances and check registration status.
The leadership team includes Kevin Glenn (Director, Youth Mentor, Adult Programs Instructor, Nature Mentor, Podcaster), Gabe McMahan (Youth Mentor), Ethyl Ruehman (Youth Mentor), Josh Jackson (Youth Mentor, Little Turtles Teacher), and Eliza Dowd (Little Turtles Teacher). Listed training and education for leadership include a B.A. in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, completion of “The Immersion” 9-month program at Wilderness Awareness School in 2001, an Apprenticeship with Mark Morey of The Institute for Natural Learning in 2002, Hawk Circle's Wilderness Instructor Training Program (8-week immersion) in 2003, and ongoing study at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School since 1999. Additional experience includes serving as an instructor for “The Art of Mentoring” week-long workshops from 1999–2015, lead instructor for Wilderness Initiations into Adolescence for teenagers, and martial arts practice since age 11 in Filipino Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Credentials and certifications include Track & Sign Level III certified tracker from CyberTracker North America (2021), Certified Movnat Level 1 Trainer (2023), Certified Thriving Relationship Coach from the Center for Thriving Relationships, and Wilderness First Responder certification.
The stated vision is to foster deep connection to nature, to self, and to each other through immersive experiences, recognizing that humans are nature and that inner nature and vision are described as a gift to others. The stated mission is to facilitate connective and meaningful experiences for people of all ages through immersive experiences in the natural world and to be mentors of connection, consciousness, creativity, and passion. One parent, Abby Meyer, states that her family was able to send their girls to Wild Nature Project the week they moved to Bloomington and that they have been thankful since, describing the opportunity to be outside and learn about nature as invaluable and saying, “We love, love, love WNP!” Another parent, Anastacia A, states that her boys have been attending Wild Nature Project for years, that Kevin and his co-teachers are “the best,” and that she feels her children get a “wonderful chunk of time in nature” and learn a lot, adding, “Send your kids here whenever you can!”
Last updated May 14, 2026.
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