Dancing Coyote Camp — The Nature Awareness Experience for Children Ages 7-14

Darwin Bean Enduring Scholarship


	Darwin Earl Bean

Darwin Earl Bean was born on May 10th, 1929 in the Redwoods of California. He and his sisters and brother were abandoned as children going to live with foster families. As a child he learned to explore the wilderness around him and collect food for his foster family, in order to survive the hard economic times of the 1930's. Life itself was about a close relationship with the wild country. He killed his first deer at age ten to supply food for his foster family, and although he later expressed sadness regarding the encounter, he established a life pattern of doing what needed to be done, while maintaining gratitude and respect for the natural world.

Darwin's love of nature and the living plants and animals led him to his life's work; he became a landscaper. He was the first person in the Seattle area to carefully uproot and move 100-year-old trees, where others would simply have cut them down. He was responsible for the planting and transplanting of many trees in the University of Washington and the Arboretum. He always hired crews of young people whom he made feel special about nature and work. All the men and women who worked with him years ago remember him fondly as always cheerful and full of fun while leading by example. Darwin was a person who made everyone around him feel as if anything was possible.

Darwin Bean was Gayle Holeton's loving father. He took her camping, hiking and exploring in the Icicle River area starting from when Gayle was just a toddler. At night, he told her stories of his youth in the wilderness. Through these stories, he imparted his intuitive knowledge gained from years of observation and experience in nature, giving Gayle the confidence to explore and enjoy nature's beauty.
Darwin climbed Mt. Rainier in 1989, just two years before his premature death in 1991. We offer this scholarship in his name to a child who may also learn to feel his kinship with the wilderness, with other people and with himself.

Reconnecting children to the wonders of nature.

Dancing Coyote Camp, Inc.
3133 Sahalee Dr. West
Sammamish, WA 98074
Phone: 425-868-0407
Fax: 425-836-3129
Email: info@dancingcoyotecamp.com

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