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Group Courses
LNT Trainer courses will be offered starting in the spring of 2008. Workshops are ongoing.
To arrange a workshop, sign up for the LNT Trainer course, or to find out more about Leave No Trace in Nova Scotia
connect to Lyse and Craig at
or (902) 477-7459
What’s
that............?
Leave No Trace is a Canadian and International program designed to assist outdoor enthusiasts with their decisions about how to reduce their impacts when they hike, camp, picnic, snowshoe, run, bike, hunt, paddle, ride horses, geocache, fish, ski, or climb. The program strives to educate all those who enjoy the outdoors about the nature of their recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts. Leave No Trace is best understood as an educational and ethical program, not as a set of rules and regulations. Leave No Trace builds awareness, appreciation and respect for our wild lands and waters.
Trainer Courses
Leave No Trace Trainer courses are two days long and facilitated in an outdoor setting by Master Educators. Trainer courses are designed to help you better understand and teach Leave No Trace skills and ethics. After completing the course you are certified by Leave No Trace Canada to facilitate LNT awareness workshops.
Awareness Workshops
Awareness workshops are any type of formal Leave No Trace training that is one-day or less in length. These presentations may be 30-minute chats about the Leave No Trace principles or full-day workshops. They can take place inside or outdoors and be tailored to fit the interests and activities of your group.
Your facilitators
Lyse Boyce and Craig Potter have facilitated Leave No Trace workshops since 2005. They have brought workshops to youth groups, paddlers, and hikers. They have integrated Leave No Trace into the practices of Halifax Regional Search and Rescue, where they are both volunteers.
In the summer of 2007 they travelled to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to take the Leave No Trace Master Educators course – and to learn a bit about the outdoor recreation culture of North-eastern United States. The Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection generously funded this training.
Craig
enjoys camping all year round, canoe tripping, and learning about the
outdoors. He is the Internal Training Officer of Halifax Regional Search
and Rescue. He’s trained in Wilderness First Aid. Craig is a Nova
Scotian with several generations of ancestry in this province: He’s
committed to encouraging ethical use of our land so that future
generations will have wilderness to enjoy.
Lyse is also an all-season camper and canoe tripper, as well as a cyclist and hiker. She enjoys studying and documenting wilderness and rural areas of Nova Scotia – with a focus on botany, conservation biology, and ecological farming. Lyse is a course coordinator and instructor for Halifax Regional Search and Rescue, and one of their Wilderness First Responders. She is on the board of directors of Leave No Trace Canada.
To see photos from one of our LNT workshops go to here .
For more information about Leave No Trace visit: www.leavenotrace.ca
Any queries contact Blair Doyle at:
(902) 222-0868 or (902) 434-9122
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