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About the Instructors Rob Speiden Mike Hull Al Cire
Whether it's specific applications of tracking, such as aging or tactics to follow tracks of a missing person, or just enjoying tracking for the sake of tracking and an increased awareness of the surroundings, Rob, Mike and Al enjoy sharing what they have experienced and assisting others with their learning process. Their main objective is to contribute the benefits of tracking skills to the community through education, search and rescue for missing persons, or any other venue.
ROB SPEIDEN
is an active member of the Search and Rescue (SAR) community, and has been
since 1993. After completing
basic search and rescue training he went on to study human tracking from
instructors in a variety of tracking-related disciplines including the following:
Kent Hicks,
Track
&
Sign Aging Universal Tracking Services, Track Aware Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services Basic Tracker
William Bodziak,
Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection and Recovery
David Scott-Donelan, Scott Donelan Tracking School
Tactical Tracking Operations Level I
Tactical Tracking Operations Level II
Charles Worsham, Nature and Vision School
Camouflage
Basic Human Tracking
Advanced Human Tracking Awareness, Intuition and Aesthetics
Shadow Wolves Native Tracker Training Inaugural Tracker Training event 7/05
Please feel free to contact any of these instructors for references.
Rob has taught more than 4000 people in various outdoor skills. He continues to receive the most valuable lessons from countless hours of
dedicated tracking “dirt time” (and leaf time and snow time and…) on his own as
well as in search and rescue training.
He is an active member of the following groups: Southwest Virginia Mountain Rescue Group,
Commonwealth Search and Rescue,
Black Diamond Search and Rescue Council, Appalachian Professional Tracking Group,
1st Special Response Group, and the
International Society of Professional Trackers
Rob is also an active member of the Search and Rescue Tracking Institute (SARTI), and currently holds positions as Operational Tracker, Training Officer, and Treasurer in SARTI. As the Virginia Department of Emergency Management Field Team Signcutter Course Coordinator and through the tracking school, he currently instructs search and rescue volunteers and law enforcement officers in tracking and awareness skills that enhance search efforts for missing persons. He has logged over 200 tasks on more than 110 documented search missions to date. Recent recognitions have included being presented the Lisa J Hannon Award by the Virginia Search and Rescue Council in 2007 and being cast as a tracking team member in the Red Brick Entertainment TV show, “The Chase: Trackdown” aired on Court TV in 2005.
Rob Speiden began his tracking experiences while growing up on a farm in Orange
County, Virginia. He completed
college with a bachelors degree in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia
Tech. Tracking humans was a start
for Rob to get interested in tracking all animals, and he has attended many animal
tracking classes around the country taught by Paul Rezendes' Nature Programs,
Charles Worsham's Nature and Vision School, Wilderness Awareness
School (W.A.S.), Jim Bruchac, James
Halfpenny and others. Rob has been
sharing and facilitating animal tracking experiences in classes held in
Blacksburg, Virginia, and other venues such as 4-H and Boy Scout events, and
National Wild Turkey Federation Jakes days.
Decades of outdoor familiarity, professional seminars and a strong desire
to share with others are just a few of the qualities that come together to give
you a worthwhile educational experience.
Rob was recently tested on animal tracks/sign in Massachusetts and trailing in California by the cybertracker evaluation process and is certified according to Cybertracker standards as a Level III Tracker and as a Level III Track and Sign Interpreter.
MIKE HULL
Special Agent Mike Hull of the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland
"Tracking is a complex application of simplicities." - Mike Hull AL CIRE
Al has been a Conservation Officer with the VA Dept. of Conservation & Recreation since 1989. Currently serving as Operations Coordinator for the Division of Natural Heritage he manages Natural Area Preserves across western VA where he is able to apply tracking skills frequently.
Al received a BS in Wildlife Conservation in 1984 from the University of MD. His life long interest in tracking developed while growing up and hunting on Maryland’s eastern shore. Al’s formal tracking education began in 1999 with VA Field Team Signcutter and has since included classes from: Joel Hardin (Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Service), David Scott-Donelan (Tactical Tracking Operations School), William Bodziak (FBI, retired), and Charles Worsham (Nature & Vision Tracking School). Al has instructed numerous law enforcement officers in Firearms, Defensive Tactics and Tracking. He has also served as a Field Team Signcutter assistant instructor and a volunteer instructor with VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries teaching Animal Tracking and Hunter Education. Al is currently an active member of the Search and Rescue Tracking Institute and Commonwealth Search & Rescue. He trains with both groups regularly and participates in missing person searches. Al was also cast as a tracking team member in the Red Brick Entertainment TV show, “The Chase: Trackdown” aired on Court TV in 2005.
Personnel and Agencies Taught By Natural Awareness Tracking School, LLC: Adams County E.M.A. MS Adams County SAR MS Alleghany County Sheriff's Office VA Alpha K9 Search & Rescue Alpha Team Search & Rescue, GA Angel Search and Rescue VA American Rescue Dog Association (VA, MD, WI) Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference Arizona Game and Fish Department Bedford Police Department VA Benton County SAR AR Black Diamond Search and Rescue Conference Blacksburg Police Department VA Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group VA Blue & Grey Search Dogs VA Buncombe County Sheriff's Office NC Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Cabell County WV EMS Campbell County Sheriff's Office VA Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy VA Carroll County SORT AR Carteret County Sheriff's Office, NC Central North Carolina Search & Rescue Charleston Police Department WV Chickasaw County SAR MS Christiansburg Police Department VA Civil Air Patrol Coastal Carolina Search Team Collierville Police Department TN Commonwealth Search and Rescue Contra Costa County SAR CA Crawford County SAR AR Cumberland County Sheriff's Office NC Daphne Search & Rescue, AL Delmarva Search and Rescue Desoto County MS Emergency Management Desoto County Sheriff's Office SAR MS Dogs East Search and Rescue East Coast K-9 Eden Police Department NC Escambia SAR FL Eureka Fire Department MO Faulkner County Rescue AR Federal Bureau of Investigation Forsyth County Sheriff's Office NC Flatland Search and Rescue Floyd County Sheriff's Office VA Franklin County Sheriff's Office VA Franklin County Search and Rescue VA Frontline Search and Rescue Gates County Rescue & Fire, NC Greater Philadelphia Search and Rescue PA Guilford County Sheriff's Office NC Gulf Coast SAR MS Halifax County Fire Commission VA Halifax County Sheriff's Office VA Hancock County SAR MS Headwaters Search & Rescue WI Henderson County Sheriff's Office NC Hendersonville Police Department NC Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office FL Hinds County MS EOC International Society of Professional Trackers Intermont Search and Rescue Jackson Fire Department MS Jackson Police Department MS Jefferson County Sheriff's Office MS Kanawha County Sheriff's Office WV Kentucky Department of Emergency Management Lamar County SAR MS Loudoun County Sheriff's Office VA Lynchburg Police Department VA Maricopa County Sheriff's Department AZ Martin County Sheriff's Office, NC Maryland Search and Rescue Maryland Rescue Dog Association Mason Dixon Rescue Dogs Mecklenberg County Sheriff's Office VA Mid-Atlantic D.O.G.S. Mississippi Animal Response Team Mississippi Department of Homeland Security Mountain Area Rescue Group WV National Audobon Society National Park Service National Ranger Training Institute OH Newton County E.M.A. MS North Carolina Division of Emergency Management North Carolina Canine Emergency Response Team North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Parks & Recreation Old Dominion Search and Rescue Ohio County SAR KY Pacific Northwest Trackers Association, WA Pender County Search & Rescue, NC Piedmont Search and Rescue VA Pine Grove Fire Department MS Pulaski Police Department VA Radford Department of Police VA Reidsville Police Department NC Roanoke City Sheriff's Office VA Rockingham County Sheriff's Office NC Rockingham/Augusta Search and Rescue VA Rocky Mount Police Department VA Rocky Mount Fire Department, NC Salem Police Department VA San Juaquin Co SAR CA Search and Rescue Dogs Association - Maryland Search and Rescue Tracking Institute Search One Rescue Team TX Semlec SAR Team MA Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group VA Siloam Springs Fire Department AR Smith Grove Fire Department, NC Southeast Missouri SAR MO Southwest Virginia Mountain Rescue Group VA Southern Pride Search Dogs Spokane County ESAR WA Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office VA Spotsylvania Search and Rescue St. Charles County Ambulance District MO Sull County Wildland SAR NY Susquehanna Search and Rescue Taunton Police Department MA Top of Virginia Search and Rescue Tracy C.E.R.T. CA Trail Riders of Today Search & Rescue Tyler County Search & Rescue WV Union County SAR GA Union County Urban SAR MS Union County Sheriff's Department MS United States Border Patrol United States Army United States Navy United States Forest Service United States Marshall Service Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Virginia Department of Emergency Management Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Virginia Tech Police Department Virginia Search and Rescue Dog Association Virginia State Police Washington County SAR AR West Virginia Division of Forestry West Virginia State Police White Oak SAR PA Wilderness Awareness School Will County E.M.A. IL
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