About Jon Young

Inspired by his childhood mentoring with tracker and author Tom Brown, Jr., Jon has pioneered blending Native mentoring techniques from around the world with the tools of modern field ecology.

Under Jon's guidance, Wilderness Awareness School, which was originally founded as a high school nature club, has grown to reach students all around the world with its programs that help people reconnect with their native environments.

Jon has created several popular training tape series which can be purchased through the products section of this website, and he is the principal author of both The Kamana Naturalist Training Program and The North American Master Shikari Sequence for CyberTracker.

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