FREE MAN-TRACKING CLASS >> August 16-17, 2025 (Roscommon, Michigan • Crawford County • Northern Lower Peninsula): Taught by Team MibSAR’s Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG) instructor cadre -- Nick St. Onge, Michael Richardson, Joshua Isaac, Chris Ozminski, Kelly Robinson, and Michael Neiger -- this class will be held at the Michigan DNR’s spotless Ralph A. MacMullan (RAM) Conference Center in the Education Building, North Branch Meeting Room, 104 Conservation Drive, Roscommon, Michigan www.Michigan.gov/RAMcenter
>> TO RESERVE A SPOT IN THIS FREE CLASS, click GOING on this Facebook event page
>> NATURE OF CLASS: Classroom presentations, tabletops ~ Hands-on dirt time scenarios in the bush ~Free tracking form
>> CLASS CURRICULUM: This 50% classroom, 50% dirt-time man-tracking class will focus on:
• Tracking kit & stick
• Tracking teams
• Track contrast
• Footprint dynamics
• Categories of sign
• Impression sign
• Vegetation sign
• Other sign
• Categories of sign
• Impression sign
• Vegetation sign
• Other sign
• Track traps
• Night tracking
• Track aging
>> LODGING, MEALS, CAMPING, CABIN RENTALS:
~ For on-site room & BLD meal reservations, email the RAM Center at
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~ For walking-distance campsite and cabin reservations, contact North Higgins Lake State Park:
https://www2.dnr.state.mi.us/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=478&type=SPRK
• NOTE: No meals or lodging are provided by the organizer, Michael Neiger, during this class.
>> INSURANCE COVERAGE
• No insurance coverage is provided by the organizer, Michael Neiger, for this class. Participants are encouraged to consult with a trusted professional about the need for life, disability, medical, prescription, dental, eye, evacuation, class cancellation, automobile, etc., insurance coverage.
> EQUIPMENT TO BRING (or team-up and share with a partner)
Will be posted as class approaches.
Thank you for your interest!
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>> TO SCHEDULE FREE SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP (SOG) TRAINING FOR YOUR TEAM – Foul-Weather Wilderness Survival, Map-and-Compass Land Navigation, Man-Tracking, or Strategies and Tactics for Search and Rescue Operations -- reach out to Michael Neiger at
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— Michael Neiger, Marquette, Michigan,
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• Det/Sgt (Ret.), 26 years: Michigan State Police (Manistique, Metro Detroit, Marquette)
• Lead Investigator & Instructor, 18 years: Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue’s (MibSAR) Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG), investigating cold-case murders and long-term-missing person cases in the bush from the Upper Great Lakes to Canada’s Arctic Ocean
• Crew Leader & SAR Tech I, National Association for Search & Rescue (NASAR)
• 7-time Dead-of-Winter Arctic Ocean Expedition Guide; 38-year Canadian Expedition Guide
• Author: Missing-Person Sourcebook for Families Searching for a Missing or Murdered Loved One
Member (or former member) of: International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA), International Crime Scene Investigators Association (ICSIA), The National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR), International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT), National Association of Law Enforcement Trackers (NALET)
As seen on Fox Nation, ABC’s 20/20, Discovery Plus, Chris Hansen’s Crime Watch Daily, A+E’s Crime (UK), TV Ontario, NBC’s Snapped; in Outside Magazine, Explore Magazine, Recoil Offgrid, Detroit Free Press, Society (Paris); and in the books Where Monsters Hide & The Cold Vanish
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