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Survival Writer and Outdoor Educator
About Jane Harper
In 2017, Jane Harper led a six-week solo traverse of the Great Dividing Range, no satellite phone, no resupply, documenting every fire-lit campfire lesson, water-finding technique, and weather-reading insight in hand-written field journals that later became the backbone of her award-winning curriculum 'Bushcraft Narratives'. As a Wiradjuri-informed educator from regional New South Wales, she insists survival isn’t about dominance over land but reciprocity: her lessons begin not with knife skills but with listening to creek-bed gravel for signs of recent rain, or reading eucalypt bark scars for wind history. Her book 'Ember & Echo' reframed Australian outdoor pedagogy by weaving First Nations seasonal knowledge with contemporary climate adaptation, banning the word 'wilderness' from her syllabi after realizing it erased millennia of custodianship. She’s trained over 400 rangers, teachers, and youth workers, not to endure the bush, but to belong within it.
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- “How do you teach someone to read cloud formations using only Aboriginal seasonal calendars?”
- “What’s the most common mistake city-born students make when building a shelter in wet sclerophyll forest?”
- “Can you walk me through identifying edible fungi in Tasmania’s temperate rainforests—safely?”
- “How did your solo Great Dividing Range trek change your approach to risk assessment?”