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Est. 2026  ·  Sierra County, New Mexico

Tymmber Outdoor University

Where everyday people build uncommon understanding — in the field, on the road, and in the pages of history.

10
Schools
Free
With Email
1
Prerequisite
Outcomes
Our Charter
One Prerequisite.
Uncommon Intent.

Tymmber U was not built for credentialed experts. It was built for people who still think for themselves. The only admission requirement is curiosity — and the willingness to question what you've been told.

Each school is built around frameworks developed over many years of field experience, writing, and independent study. No institution funded this. No credential required to benefit from it. Some schools will draw on aligned creators and thinkers whose work earns its place here.

Every course is free with your email. Sovereign Circle members get early access to new modules, downloadable frameworks, and direct Q&A with the course author or founder.

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The Source Material · XV Guided Sages

Ask Better
Questions.
Make a Better Case.

Every school in Tymmber U draws its intellectual courage from fifteen thinkers who did something most people never attempt — they questioned what everyone else accepted, built their case from evidence, and held their ground when the institution pushed back.

They are not here as historical decoration. They are here as method. Their lives teach you how to think — not what to think.

Meet the XV Sages →
The Question
Bacon · Hickson · Curie

What does the evidence actually say — not what does the institution claim it says?

The Case
Franklin · Lincoln · Mason

How do you build an argument that holds under pressure, without a credential to lean on?

The Courage
Thoreau · Roosevelt · Carson

How do you hold your ground when the institution, the crowd, and the noise all push back?

The Build
Fuller · Tesla · Kay

How do you build a new model instead of wasting energy fighting the old one?

Academic Catalog · 2026

Ten Schools.
One Pattern.

Each school is built around frameworks developed over many years of field experience, writing, and independent study. No institution funded this. No credential required to benefit from it.

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TU-100 In Development
School of Unified Terrain & Habitats
Department of Natural Sciences

The material world is not a mystery — it is an unmeasured one. This school exists because the institutions stopped asking the honest questions the moment those questions became inconvenient. Here, the field is the laboratory. The terrain is the variable. The citizen scientist is the researcher. We begin with what can be observed, documented, and replicated — not what has been credentialed. Anchored by the Unified Terrain Theory and the Test the Claim experiment library, TU-100 is built for independent thinkers willing to follow the method wherever it leads.

TU-600 recommended — fieldwork requires field literacy The ability to conduct, document, and contribute to independent empirical research in natural terrain Research Papers · Experiment Protocols · Community Data Portal Nullius in Verba — Take Nobody’s Word For It
Operating Standard
“The field as laboratory. Data over belief. Every finding carries its evidential category. Every researcher signs the integrity attestation.”
Test the Claim · Active Experiment Library
Sub-Dept 01  ·  Biology — The Terrain Contact Claim
TTC-NS-001
Terrain Contact & Body Voltage
Does direct skin contact with natural ground measurably reduce electrical charge in the human body? A Tier 1 citizen science protocol anyone can run with a body voltage meter and a bound notebook.
■ Open for Replication
TTC-NS-002
Terrain Type & Voltage Differential
Does surface type — soil, sand, rock, grass, water — affect the magnitude of body voltage reduction? Tier 1 extension of TTC-NS-001 adding terrain variables.
□ In Design — Pending TTC-NS-001 Data
TTC-NS-003
EMF Environment & Biomarkers
Tier 2 clinical protocol. Measuring nitric oxide metabolites and inflammatory markers alongside body voltage. The connective study between the Pall VGCC mechanism and terrain contact research.
□ Tier 2 — Pending Tier 1 Evidence Base
Sub-Dept 01  ·  Biology — The Urbanization & Mental Health Claim
TTC-NS-004
Urban vs. Nature — Mood & Recovery Tracking
30-day citizen science protocol tracking mood, sleep, attention, and outdoor exposure across urban and natural settings. Two-phase design. No lab equipment required.
■ Open for Replication
TTC-NS-005
The Morning Light Protocol — Family Circadian Baseline
14-day family protocol tracking sleep onset, wake time, morning mood, and outdoor light exposure. Consumer sleep tracker + bound notebook.
□ Protocol in Design
TTC-NS-006
Cross-Population Urban vs. Rural Mental Health Biomarkers
Multi-participant 90-day coordinated study comparing cortisol, sleep quality, and mood across matched urban and rural populations. Undergraduate / graduate level.
□ Tier 2 — Coordinated
TU-200 In Development
School of Critical Evaluation
Department of Authentic Methodology

Most people were never taught how to think — they were taught what to think. This school changes that. Built around a 16-question forensic framework developed over nine years and published internationally, TU-200 trains you to distinguish authentic authority from manufactured authority. Applied to institutions, historical figures, corporations, and the headlines you read every day. The one prerequisite: an open mind. The outcome: you will never consume information the same way again.

An open mind You will never read a headline the same way again Modules + Field Application
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TU-300 In Development
School of Economic Philosophy
Department of Prosperitism

Capitalism measures success by extraction. Prosperitism measures it by flourishing. This school examines what an economy actually looks like when human development — not profit — is the primary output. We trace how extractive systems replaced generative ones, and what it takes to build something that makes people genuinely better off. Not theory for its own sake — a framework for every decision you make as a builder, buyer, or citizen.

TU-200 recommended A new lens for evaluating every business decision Reading + Discussion Frameworks
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TU-400 In Development
School of Sovereignty
Department of Civility & Advocacy

Dependency is not an accident — it was designed. This school examines how individual sovereignty was systematically traded away and what it takes to reclaim it. From the architecture of self-governance to the mechanics of community advocacy, TU-400 restores the relationship between the individual and the outside world — not through protest, but through understanding, capability, and documented action.

TU-200 recommended A working model for individual sovereignty and community governance Case Studies + Applied Frameworks
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TU-500 In Development
School of Food & Land
Department of Permaculture & Food Forest

The grocery store is a four-day supply chain away from empty. This school examines what it means to restore your relationship with the land as a living food system — not a hobby garden, but a regenerative infrastructure that outlasts you. From soil ecology and water retention to food forest design and perennial systems, TU-500 applies permaculture principles to terrain-aware, sovereign living. The goal is not self-sufficiency as a concept. It is food production as a practiced reality.

None — start here A functioning food forest design rooted in terrain reality, not wishful thinking Field Guides + Design Workshops + Site Assessment Tools
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TU-600 In Development
School of Field Study
Department of Outdoor Skills & Field Craft

There is a difference between people who go outside and people who live outside. This school is built for the latter. Developed from nine years and 1,000+ nights of documented field experience, TU-600 covers the practical capability that no classroom can teach — camp craft, mobile kitchen mastery, gear systems, vehicle setup, navigation, and the decision-making mindset that turns any terrain into a functional living environment. Self-reliance is not a concept here. It is a skill set, built one night at a time.

None — start here Confidence and competence in any outdoor environment Field Guides + Video Modules
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TU-700 In Development
School of Creationeering
Department of Entrepreneurialism

Every product that changed the world began as a problem someone refused to accept. This school examines the full arc — from lived experience and field observation, to idea formation, to product development, to building a constituency around something genuinely new. The Tymmber model is the case study. Fuller's principle is the operating standard: don't fight the old model, build something that makes it obsolete. For people who see complexity as differentiation and problems as the raw material of value.

TU-300 recommended A builder's mindset grounded in authentic value creation Case Studies + Founder Conversations
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TU-800 In Development
School of Terrain Development
Department of Terrain Development for Living

The master-planned community is the built argument that humans belong in a controlled grid. This school makes the counter-argument — in design, in code, and in concrete. TU-800 integrates water harvesting, off-grid energy systems, food forest design, wildlife corridor preservation, zoning strategy, and Minimum Viable Impact building into a single sovereign development framework. The question is not how to build on the land. It is how to build with it — grid independent, terrain-honest, and designed to last.

TU-500 recommended A terrain-first development model designed for grid independence and sovereign lifestyle at scale Site Design Frameworks + Case Studies + Regulatory Navigation Guides
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TU-900 Deep Dives Live
School of Everyday Outdoor Life
Department of Human Stack & Family Health

Your body is not a machine — it is a layered biological system shaped by millions of years of terrain exposure. The Human Stack framework examines what happens when that system is denied the environment it was built for: disconnected from soil, starved of morning light, confined indoors, and fed by systems optimized for shelf life over biology. TU-900 applies Terrain Theory to family health — from the anxious child who needs nature to the adult whose chronic conditions have a terrain-based explanation. Peer-reviewed. Primary-source cited. Nullius in Verba standard. No wellness platitudes. Just the evidence, stated honestly.

None — start here The evidence base for the outdoor life your family already knows it needs Deep Dive PDFs · Research Library · Practice Guides
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TU-1000 New · Building
School of Outdoor History
Department of Founders & Origins

History remembers the brand. This school recovers the builder. George Stephen didn't set out to create the backyard grill — he set out to solve a problem no one else would touch. Wally Byam didn't sell trailers, he sold the freedom to disappear. These are the stories the official narrative buried under marketing, and TU-1000 brings them back — rigorously sourced, Authentic Method assessed, and told the way they actually happened. Because the lessons of the founders aren't nostalgia. They are the operating manual for what comes next.

None — start here. Franklin Library recommended. The ability to assess any founder, institution, or industry with rigor, evidence, and clear eyes Reading Room source material · TAM assessments · Quiz · Three-course sequence
Course Sequence · 2026
SOH-001 · Part I
One Man's Vision of a Mobile America
Ford · Kingsford · Firestone · Byam · George Stephen. The 110-year lineage from the Everglades campfire to the RAAK.
● Source: Franklin Library Reading Room
SOH-002 · Part II
The $887 Billion Campfire
Coleman · Eddie Bauer · Ansel Adams · The war · The station wagon. Every industry one campfire built.
● Source: Franklin Library Reading Room
SOH-003 · Course 3 · Assessment 01 Live
The Authentic Method Applied
George A. Stephen Sr. — 16/16 · Grade A · TAM v2.9. The offshore quality decision. The positive standard. Six assessments remaining.
Read Assessment 01 →
SOH-QUIZ · Entry Point
The $887 Billion Quiz
Take Quiz →
RoadSchool™ Trigger
Drive past Dearborn, Michigan. Drive past Iron Mountain. Drive past the Weber Brothers factory site in Chicago. Road School activates the full lineage sequence in the field.
Road School™ Has a New Home

Road School™
Now in OREE.

Road School is Tymmber U's field delivery system — and OREE's field operations arm. The two were always the same thing.

Road School is the program that takes what Tymmber U's schools teach and puts it to work in the world. GPS-triggered location-based curriculum, field documentation protocols, outdoor skills deployments, and the Gila Wilderness sequences — all of it feeds directly into OREE's TTP-1 field hour requirements and the Pipeline's documented outdoor experience standard.

Field hours logged through Road School count toward TTP-1 certification. Road School deployments at the Gila, Sierra County, and along the I-25 corridor are the field component of OREE's Prosperity Program and Pipeline. The classroom teaches the method. Road School is where you prove it.

Road School at OREE → View Field Sequences →
Road School · Five Field Sequences · Now OREE-Credited
RS-001
The Despair Economy — Live Evidence
Triggered near abandoned main streets across rural New Mexico. TAM applied in real time to institutional decline.
TU-100 · TU-200 · OREE Module 01
RS-002
Gila Wilderness Field Craft
Activated on entry to the Gila National Forest. Camp setup, water sourcing, low-impact cooking with the RAAK system.
TU-600 · OREE Module 05 · TTP-1 Hours
RS-003
Sierra County: The Prosperity Place Model
Arriving in Truth or Consequences, NM. The vision for a community built on the Tymmber thesis — in the place where Tymmber was born.
TU-200 · TU-400 · OREE I-25 Corridor
RS-004
The Builder on the Road
Mobile income systems, remote-first workflow setup, and the Outdoor Entrepreneur framework applied to life in motion.
TU-700 · OREE Module 06 · TTP-1 Hours
RS-005
Terrain Contact — A Field Experiment
Activated at any wilderness camp or bare-ground site. Run TTC-NS-001 Session 1. Your camp is your laboratory. The method is in your pack.
TU-100 · OREE Pipeline · TTP-1 Hours
Applied Programs Division  ·  Est. 2020 · Relaunched 2026

OREE

Outdoor Recreation  ·  Education  ·  Entrepreneur

Tymmber U's applied programs division. The schools teach you how to think. OREE puts that thinking to work — enrolling individuals in the Prosperity Program, building the K-12 Pipeline, credentializing graduates, and connecting them to the $1.2T outdoor economy.

268M
Americans · Built For
$250K
Prosperity Standard
K–12+
Age Range · Full Pipeline
Enrolling Now
The Prosperity Program

Adult enrollment track. Six free modules. The $250K standard. 268 million Americans. Fifteen despair clusters. One pathway out.

Coming · 2026
The Pipeline

K-12 outdoor education track. Early Access through Graduating. The preventive layer that catches youth before the Despair Economy does.

Certificate Active
The Certificate — TTP

TTP-1 Graduate. TTP-2 Certified Trainer. The credential that unlocks the Marketplace, the Job Board, and the right to run cohorts.

Job Board Live · NM Pilot
The Job Board

85+ verified NM organizations. Paid, volunteer, apprenticeship, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the $3.6B NM outdoor economy.

Enter OREE → Prosperity Program → Job Board →
This University Is Under Construction — Being Built in Public.

Modules drop as they're ready. Enroll now to be first in the room.

● OREE · Applied Programs · Enrolling Now School of Outdoor History · New Natural Sciences TAM Framework Prosperitism The Human Stack Permaculture & Food Forest Field Craft Entrepreneurial Sovereignty Terrain Development Road School™ · Now in OREE Fund the Question™ · Voting Open
FTQ
Tymmber U™ · Featured Program · Est. 2026

Fund the Question™

The research the institutions won't commission — directed by the community that lives it. Every question originates from a documented Advocacy Memo. Every answer returns to the Franklin Library and feeds Tymmber U curriculum.

05
Questions · 2026 Slate
Q3
Top 3 Launch · 2026
SC
Members Vote
Why We Ask
Mission & Business Together

Tymmber's mission is getting more people outside. Our business depends on accessible public land. These questions protect both — and the evidence they produce strengthens every product story, every advocacy position, and every investor conversation.

How It Works
Community-Directed Grant Making

Every question originates from an Advocacy Memo. Sovereign Circle members vote. Top three campaigns launch on GoFundMe. Advisory Group hires the Research Lead. Findings publish in the Franklin Library. The loop closes back into Tymmber U courses.

For Future Generations
Building the Record Before It's Too Late

Those not yet born will one day ask what we did with the terrain we inherited. These questions build the evidentiary record while asking can still change something. The Sovereign Circle is not a donor base. It is a research committee.

2026 Research Slate · Five Questions · Vote Open Sovereign Circle Members Only · Q3 2026
Q1 What is the true economic cost of 25 years of public land access restriction — and who funded the organizations behind the closures?
Q2 What is the measurable cognitive, emotional, and civic cost to children who inherit a locked landscape they can never walk freely?
Q3 Does responsible OHV use harm wildlife habitat — or does human presence create a protective deterrent effect conservation-only models ignore?
+2 Two additional questions on public health economics and the generational transfer of public land control — see all five on the full program page.
See All 5 Questions & Vote → Join the Sovereign Circle Nullius in Verba — we fund the answer, not the assumption.