Wilderness Medicine Training

Welcome to Aerie.  After 15 years in business with over 10,000 graduates, Aerie is unique in the wilderness medicine training world:  small enough to focus on individual students and large enough to be involved in all levels of the outdoor industry and its training needs.  All Aerie courses rely on effective, realistic and challenging scenarios.  Working with a select staff primarily based in Missoula, Montana, we provide training to many of the largest land-management and outdoor-adventure agencies in the United States, present at the most prominent risk management and wilderness medicine conferences, and offer courses around the world.  

• Courses and Programs, including, but not limited to
  • Semester in Wilderness Medicine (or visit our Semester blog)
  • Wilderness EMT (WEMT)
  • Wilderness First Responder  (WFR)
  • Wilderness First Aid (WFA) 
  • Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS)
• Staff 
• Teaching Philosophy
• Mission  

Every aspect of Aerie, from our Made-in-Montana first aid kits to our course venues, reflect our commitment to supporting local communities while offering quality products and services consistent with sustainable development practices.  We encourage you to verify this by viewing our site and hope you will contact us with questions.  

National Leaders 

Service is the core of Aerie's mission, and it is no coincidence that many of our training partners are conservation service corps and land-management agencies.  Aerie is the primary provider of wilderness medicine training for the Student Conservation Association, the nation’s largest conservation corps.  We provide ongoing training to many other youth conservation corps, including:

• Northwest Youth Corps
• Washington Conservation Corps
• Montana Conservation Corps 
• Minnesota Conservation Corps  

We provide training at many Universities, including:

• University of Montana
• Montana State University
• Carroll College
• Eastern Washington University
• United World College

In addition, Aerie provides regular training to:

• US Forest Service and BLM Smokejumpers 
• Hotshot and other wildlands firefighting crews
• Members of the US military
• Search and Rescue teams
• State and federal land agencies
• Youth-at-risk programs
• Private individuals.

Safety

No course is completely safe or capable of operating without the risk of injury or illness. With that in mind, the safety of Aerie students and staff is our first priority.  We encourage you to talk with our staff about risks inherent in our training programs before enrolling in any Aerie course.