Nic Caddell
Yellowstone Instructor
Nic was raised by the oaks woodlands, redwood forests, and estuaries of Coast Miwok homelands (so called Sonoma County, California).
They hold a B.A. in Philosophy from Whitman College, where they led backpacking trips for the outdoor program, and spent a memorable traveling semester studying ecology, conservation and environmental politics through the intermountain west.
After college, Nic spent two years working as a naturalist educator in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, where they conducted field research, wrote curriculum, and taught a wide range of ecological topics. Nic holds a naturalist certification in embodied ecology and regenerative land stewardship and a level III certification in wildlife track and sign interpretation.
They are a prescribed fire practitioner and a trauma-informed, culturally-attuned medical first responder.
Most recently, they taught ethical wildlife tracking, critical naturalist studies, and field zoology classes in collaboration with the organization Queer Nature.
As a person impacted by an ecosystem-collapse related illness, Nic’s awareness is forever drawn to the ways both harm and healing ripple across species, regions, and time. They are dedicated to creating environmental learning spaces that account for varied experiences of embodiment and celebrate the belonging to be found with our diverse more-than-human kin.
They can often be found dancing, following the trails of animal kin, adding to their almanac of synchronicities, and eavesdropping on bird gossip.