Hi, I’m Jay Bresee.
Outdoor Educator
I was born and raised in San Francisco, CA. I graduated from New College of CA with a degree in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community in 2005, and went on to study naturalist skills, animal tracking, and nature awareness through the Regenerative Design Institute and Weaving Earth from 2007-2010. I attended Lynx Vilden’s Living Wild Stone-Age project in 2013, where I lived in the woods under a tarp in Eastern Washington for six months while learning wildcrafting and stone-age living skills, and finished the program with a month of stone-age living, eating only wild foods and using only stone-age technology.
I have worked as a nature educator and ancestral skills artist since 2007, with organizations such as the Regenerative Design Institute, Weaving Earth, the Riekes Center, Rewild Portland, Trackers Northwest, Wild Earth, the Buckeye Gathering, and Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center.
I believe it is every person’s birthright to connect to nature because nature offers good medicine for our modern ills and helps us come back into balance with being human. I also think that everyone deserves a chance to have a ton of fun, and since nature is an endless source of challenge, exhilaration, fascination and amusement, we all deserve nature in our lives.