Bart Bjorkman
Bart Bjorkman is an accomplished tracker and the former director of training for the British Columbia Tracking Association. He has achieved the highest level of certification (Sign Cutter) through Universal Tracking Services. With a military background as a Special Services Force Medic, college diplomas in criminal justice and forensics, as well as being a former search and rescue manager (Emergency Management of British Columbia), Bjorkman has extensive experience deployed in search and rescue operations, primarily as a tracker. As a tracker trainer, he instructs search and rescue groups, as well as contracts to government organizations and the military for tracking and counter-tracking.
Kelly Carnochan
Kelly Carnochan is considered one of the most qualified female trackers in Western Canada. The former (multi term) president and regional director of the British Columbia Tracking Association, Carnochan provided the leadership and guidance to help build the BCTA into one of the largest training organizations of it's kind. Having come through the Universal Tracking Services ranks to become a "sign cutter", Kelly is unique in that she is also a search and rescue dog handler - with one of the few certified civilian SAR dogs recognized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Kelly Carnochan is considered one of the most qualified female trackers in Western Canada. The former (multi term) president and regional director of the British Columbia Tracking Association, Carnochan provided the leadership and guidance to help build the BCTA into one of the largest training organizations of it's kind. Having come through the Universal Tracking Services ranks to become a "sign cutter", Kelly is unique in that she is also a search and rescue dog handler - with one of the few certified civilian SAR dogs recognized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Carmen Ditzler
BPE, MA University of Alberta.
Carmen has spent thousands of hours in the bush and travelling through the backcountry, including a 3600 km canoe trip from Rocky Mountain House Alberta to Thunder Bay Ontario. She first met Canada's premier survival instructor, "Mors Kochanski", in 1986 during a University of Alberta winter outdoor education camp where she had her best sleep in years on a spruce bough bed. Carmen was able to study with Mors as a student and then a teaching assistant when he dubbed her "one of the hundred" Carmen has been a wilderness instructor, guide, mentor, and teacher on and off for the last 30 years and loves to help people learn about surviving and living in the outdoors.
BPE, MA University of Alberta.
Carmen has spent thousands of hours in the bush and travelling through the backcountry, including a 3600 km canoe trip from Rocky Mountain House Alberta to Thunder Bay Ontario. She first met Canada's premier survival instructor, "Mors Kochanski", in 1986 during a University of Alberta winter outdoor education camp where she had her best sleep in years on a spruce bough bed. Carmen was able to study with Mors as a student and then a teaching assistant when he dubbed her "one of the hundred" Carmen has been a wilderness instructor, guide, mentor, and teacher on and off for the last 30 years and loves to help people learn about surviving and living in the outdoors.
Dwaine Brooke
BSc(Agr) major in Plant Science, UBC.
Formerly a plant ecologist in range management with the BC Forest Service, Dwaine finished up a 34 year Government career managing the Invasive Plant Biocontrol program with the Forest Practices Branch of the Ministry of Forests while simultaneously running a cattle ranch specializing in breeding bulls...which he does to this day. He was certified by Universal Tracking Services as a "Tacker II" in 2011. As a tracking instructor and former multi term Vice President of the BC Tracking Association, Dwaine is well known Provincially as a dedicated proponent for establishing and maintaining consistent high standards for tracker training. Dwaine has also been a member of the Kamloops Search and Rescue group since 2007 specializing as the lead tracker where he is frequently deployed on searches (4 in 2015 alone), and has been credited with being instrumental in finding several lost subjects. Dwaine walks the talk.
BSc(Agr) major in Plant Science, UBC.
Formerly a plant ecologist in range management with the BC Forest Service, Dwaine finished up a 34 year Government career managing the Invasive Plant Biocontrol program with the Forest Practices Branch of the Ministry of Forests while simultaneously running a cattle ranch specializing in breeding bulls...which he does to this day. He was certified by Universal Tracking Services as a "Tacker II" in 2011. As a tracking instructor and former multi term Vice President of the BC Tracking Association, Dwaine is well known Provincially as a dedicated proponent for establishing and maintaining consistent high standards for tracker training. Dwaine has also been a member of the Kamloops Search and Rescue group since 2007 specializing as the lead tracker where he is frequently deployed on searches (4 in 2015 alone), and has been credited with being instrumental in finding several lost subjects. Dwaine walks the talk.
Contact: northerntracker@gmail.com or Bart Bjorkman at 1-250-254-5076
Office: 137 - 15th Ave. N. Creston B.C.
Mail: PO Box 735 Creston, B.C. V0B1G0
Office: 137 - 15th Ave. N. Creston B.C.
Mail: PO Box 735 Creston, B.C. V0B1G0