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Many park rangers, guides, and outdoor enthusiasts become wilderness first responders, a certification offered by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

In 1990, the Forest Service contracted with NOLS to create low-impact pedagogy and training. From this work emerged Leave No Trace and its seven-step program.

Tori Murden McClure, president of Spalding University, rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She learned about leadership from her outdoor adventures.

Ben Urmston has lived his life in pursuit of becoming an astronaut. He has degree in aerospace engineering and has been an instructor at NOLS for a decade.

As a “Summer Searcher,” I went on a National Outdoor Leadership School backpacking course in Wyoming. This experience instilled an entrepreneurial spirit in me.

When Jack Cleave was thinking about taking a gap year between high school and college, he never dreamed he’d end up hiking mountains in Patagonia with NOLS.

Author of The Adventure Gap, James Mills offers insights as to why it’s vitally important to add more color to the natural world and five things you can do to grow diversity.

At the 24th International Conference on Bear Research and Management, NOLS joined other bear experts from around the world to share their knowledge last week.

They’ve left behind regular lives elsewhere in the world and have headed to the New Zealand campus of American-based National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
The school provides an education some of the students say they’d never get from a regular classroom.
Their accommodation before heading into the wilderness is a small village of tents on a grassy flat above the river in Aniseed Valley, named for the spice which once grew there.

The Wyoming Business Alliance and Wyoming Heritage Foundation presented the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) with the heritage award Nov. 17.

The NOLS River Rescue Guide earned a national book award from NOBA for instructional books.

NOLS grad teaches kindergarten students outsdie

National Outdoor Leadership School – NOLS grad talks about camping cuisine on MtnMeister

NOLS Alumni Service Award Goes to Herbie Ogden

The Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC) presented the seventh annual Charles (Reb) Gregg Wilderness Risk Management last week in Portland, Ore.

NOLS Stewardship Award presented to Bob Ratcliffe, Chief of the NPS Division of Conservation and Outdoor Recreation

NOLS Presents Alumni Achievement Award to Peter Metcalf

Peter Metcalf, founder and CEO of Black Diamond, will give the keynote speech during the National Outdoor Leadership School’s (NOLS) 50th anniversary celebration.

NOLS celebrates 50 years at Outdoor Retailer

Wilderness First Responder course described with cartoons

When Cole Medders signed up for the Spring Semester in the Rockies, he fulfilled a long-held desire to move out West and explore the wild. The course began in February with a winter camping excursion in Wyoming’s Absaroka Mountains. The group practiced backcountry skiing, avalanche rescue, and built igloos to take shelter from the elements, which Medders says was the highlight of his NOLS experience. “It felt like you were really surviving out there,” he says. “It got down to -20 or -30 degrees some nights and we were way out in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, just surviving this environment that people aren’t really supposed to be in. It’s very empowering.”