The Æthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild

The AEthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild is a place for those interested in exploring the outdoors as their SCA persona might have done so in the past.  Kingdom Foresters learn and demonstrate historic camping, primitive fire starting, bushcraft, hiking, foraging, fishing, hunting, outdoor cooking, or any number of other related pursuits (or kit building to better do those activities in a period style).  If these are these of interest to you, we would love to get to know you better as we are always looking for new recruits to explore our Sylvan lands and history alike! 
 
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Historic Forestry

The system the Guild is using is based on medieval foresters and forest law from England, and has been adapted as an Arts and Sciences guild dedicated to outdoor living, survival, research, exploration and camping.  We have a system of ranks that allow people to work towards goals within the guild, fleshing out both the necessary skills and a period forester's kit.

As the SCA welcomes all pre-17th century personas, one is not limited to exploration of the medieval period.  If you are interested in exploring the outdoors, it does not matter if Elizabethan England, Bronze Age Greece or the New World is your area of interest.  We encourage our members to research their area of interest and come back and teach others how humans interacted with nature in their chosen time and place!

Additional Resources

• East Kingdom Royal Foresters
• ​Kingdom of Atlantia Royal Foresters
• "English Royal Forests - From Rome to Reformation" - this is a great presentation put together by Elliot Burton that explains the evolution and structure of the historic system of Royal Forests

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