Devin Franklin

Devin is the Director of Programs at Flying Deer Nature Center in East Chatham, NY. Devin has loved exploring in and learning about nature since early childhood. He discovered his thirst for the wilderness teachings in 1994 and has been walking the wilderness path ever since. Devin is the author of Put On Your Owl Eyes nature guide and creator of the Put On Your Owl Eyes professional development training for educators. He studied survival, tracking, and awareness skills with Dan Fisher of Wilderness School in Maine and Tom Brown Jr. at the Tracker School in New Jersey, and trained in naturalist mentoring and community building through Jon Young and the Wilderness Awareness School, as well as Mark Morey and the Vermont Wilderness School. Devin received a degree in Environmental Education from Prescott College in Arizona in 2001. He joined Flying Deer in 1998, where he was mentored by Leonard Brown, Flying Deer's founder. Devin deeply loves working with children and nature through creating the Naturalist Community that has been his home since 1998.