Ravenwood Center has full slate of outdoor camps for summer

F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company will again be hosting Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center Camps this summer on its forest lands between Columbia Falls and Whitefish.

The land use partnership aims to connect Valley kids and families with working forests by offering a variety of educational experiences on the company’s lands.

New this year is a partner camp with North Valley Music School, an advanced wilderness skills “Wild Child” day camp, and the return of the Center’s popular Family Camp.

Ravenwood also recently launched a program for home-schooled children and will be enrolling for the fall session soon.

Ravenwood is a community-based nonprofit organization celebrating its 14th year of experiential learning for kids and adults. The center specializes in connecting naturalist mentors with area children and families, providing fun and meaningful outdoor experiences designed to expand awareness, develop useful skills, promote healthy development, and deepen appreciation for local forests and communities. Campers will learn tracking and wilderness skills, edible and medicinal plant identification, fire skills, handcrafts, and immerse in a healthy working forest.

F.H. Stoltze and Ravenwood have partnered together at the site for five years and are expanding the reach of the program through year-round youth and family events and wider access to the company’s vast timber holdings in the area.

The roster of camps serve kids from ages 6 to 17 and include day and overnight camps, a community volunteer program, and Mentor in Training program for Ravenwood campers ages 12-17.

“Summer camps are already filling up,” says Ravenwood Executive Director Brett Holmquist.

In addition to kids’ camps, the Center also offers programming for area schools, teacher training, and custom adult classes and workshops on topics ranging from survival and subsistence skills, heritage arts, tool-making, and the art of nature connection mentoring to animal tracking and interpreting bird communication systems.

Sibling discounts and scholarships are available. Call (406) 260-8620 for information and visit the website at www.RavenwoodOLC.org for more on registration, fees, scholarships, and other Ravenwood programs.