Master Naturalist Craig Caudill @ Kirby

Craig Caudill is the Director and Lead Instructor of Nature Reliance School.  He is a best-selling author of several backcountry skills books and a certified master naturalist. His online school and in-person course programming is among the country’s most respected.  

He regularly teaches corporate, government agencies and the public sector.  He is an avid tracker and has taught various first responders on the federal, state, and local level in the science of man-tracking. He has led survival and wilderness navigation courses for wildlife and biology students from 14 different universities in the southeast. He has been featured on Public Education Television for the shows Kentucky Afield, Kentucky Life, and Tim Farmer’s Country Kitchen. He has served as a consultant for the Discovery Channel and History Channel He is regularly interviewed on local news segments to share safety and survival skills. He is the author of the books Extreme Wilderness Survival, Ultimate Wilderness Gear, co-author of Essential Wilderness Navigation, Vital Survival (available online only) and The Secret Signs of Nature (his first children’s book)