Nicole Young
Nicole Morgan Young lives in San Gregorio California at The Riekes Field Station. In 1995 She co-founded Villa Villa Cola, a media production company and collaborative of female skateboarders. She also co-founded Wild by Nature in 2005, a camp for young women involving surfing, skateboarding and nature. Nicole is a co-founder of the Institute of Nature Awareness and a key collaborator in the merge with the Regenerative Design Institute, which has now become The Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness Program.
Nicole spent a year at Wilderness Awareness School's Residential Program, and later became an instructor at their wilderness youth camps. She then moved to San Gregorio, where she teamed up with Owlink Media. Here she spent a year tracking California's wildlife in an intensive tracker-training program with renowned tracking author, Mark Elbroch and her husband Jon Young.
She works with the Shikari Tracking Guild doing Wildlife surveys on local land trusts, and wildlife tracker trainings. Nicole continues to work with Owlink Media in program development, and facilitation and as a video producer.
Nicole is passionate about Surfing, Skateboarding, Nature, Permaculture/Regenerative Design, Mentoring and Creativity. Her dream is to create pathways for children, adults and herself to continue experiencing the mystery and wonder of this beautiful place called earth.






