Alexis Burnett is a naturalist, wildlife tracker, and nature-based educator located in Grey County, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Three Fires Confederacy. He is the founder and lead instructor of Earth Tracks Outdoor School, where he has spent more than 25 years mentoring both children and adults in wildlife tracking, ecological awareness, and land-based skills.

His work integrates both systematic and speculative approaches to tracking, rooted in tracking and awareness as a way of reading the stories of the land. Through careful attention to track morphology, animal gaits, track patterns, and sign, alongside intuitive awareness and pattern recognition, Alexis teaches students to move beyond identification and into a deeper understanding of animal behaviour, relationships, and the wider ecological context in which those stories unfold.

Tracking, in this sense, becomes both a discipline and a form of listening—an ongoing process of gathering evidence, asking questions, and allowing the story to emerge over time. Alexis supports students in developing the ability to move fluidly between detailed observation and broader awareness, where interpretation is grounded in both what is seen and what is sensed.

Through Earth Tracks, Alexis leads workshops, apprenticeship programs, and extended wilderness trips. He has been leading a week-long tracking program in Algonquin for over 26 years and guides an annual Lynx tracking trip each January in central Ontario.

His teaching is grounded in land-based learning and deep nature connection, drawing on a wide range of complementary practices including edible and medicinal plants, herbalism, bird language, bushcraft and wilderness living skills.