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Evaluators

Cybertracker Evaluators are independent contractors sanctioned to deliver Cybertracker Evaluations and award Certificates by the North American Cybertracker Committee, and by extension, the International CyberTracker Standards Committee. A combination of superb wildlife tracking skills, a depth of personal field experience and excellent communications skills make our Evaluators successful at providing rigorous evaluations along with quality educational experiences throughout the evaluation process.

Each evaluator has met a rigorous set of standards and undergone substantial training (see below). Evaluators also have significant personal and professional experience in fields related to wildlife tracking, such as wildlife and conservation biology, hunting or wildlife related law enforcement, or outdoor and environmental education.

Mark Elbroch

Initial Evaluator
Sequim, Washington

Mark Elbroch is the Director of Science for Pumas and Jaguars at Panthera, and author/coauthor of 10 books on natural history. Mammal Tracks and Sign and Bird Tracks and Sign remain standards for the field. Mark earned his Senior Tracker Certificate in South Africa in 2005 and is the Initial Evaluator for CyberTracker Evaluations in North America. Mark was incredibly humbled to receive an honorary Master Tracker certificate in 2015 for his contributions to the field.

Sequim, Washington

markelbroch.com
markelbroch(at)yahoo.com

Jonah Evans

Track & Sign
Boerne, Texas

Jonah Evans is the Non-game & Rare Species Program Leader for Texas Parks and Wildlife. Prior to his current role, he worked as the State Mammalogist for the agency for 8 years. He is the author of iTrack Wildlife, a smartphone field guide to animal tracks and co-author of Animal Tracks and Scat of California.

Jonah has a Masters degree in Wildlife Science from Texas A&M University and a Bachelors in Environmental Studies from Prescott College.

Central Texas
www.naturetracking.com
info(at)naturetracking.com

Casey McFarland

Track & Sign External Evaluator 
Trailing
Providence, Utah

Casey McFarland is the Executive Director of Tracker Certification North America, President of the CyberTracker North America Steering Committee, and was integral to the establishment CyberTracker Europe. He is a Senior Tracker and CyberTracker Evaluator working internationally to train and certify biologists, research teams, eco-tourism guides and the general public.  In 17 years as an Evaluator, Casey has run over 200 Evaluations and given trainings in 8 countries, and as an External Evaluator he oversees Track & Sign Specialist Evaluations.

He is co-author of the new Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests, Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species , and the revision of  Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species (2nd Ed).

caseymcfarland.net

casey@trackercertification.com

David Moskowitz

Track & Sign External Evaluator
Trailing
Winthrop, Washington

David Moskowitz is the author and photographer of three books: Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest and Wolves in the Land of Salmon and Caribou Rainforest; and co-author of Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests and photographer of Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin. David works as a wildlife biology consultant and photographer. He has contributed his technical expertise to a wide variety of wildlife studies, focusing on using tracking and other non-invasive methods to study wildlife ecology and promote conservation. He helped establish the Cascades Wolverine Project, a grassroots effort to support wolverine recovery in the North Cascades using field science, visual storytelling, and building backcountry community science.

To see a schedule of upcoming evaluations David will be delivering along with classes and talks click here.

Winthrop, Washington
www.davidmoskowitz.net
david@davidmoskowitz.net

Nate Harvey

Track & Sign; Trailing External Evaluator
Marlboro, Vermont

Nate Harvey evaluates trackers for CyberTracker Conservation in both Trailing and Track & Sign Identification.  Additionally, he teaches Trailing in workshops near his home in southern Vermont and around the country.

Please visit trackerstrail.com to contact Nate and for more information about him and his work.

Marlboro, Vermont
trackerstrail.com
nateharvey(at)aol.com

Matt Nelson

Track & Sign
Three Lakes, Wisconsin

Matt Nelson is a Track & Sign Evaluator and Senior Tracker with CyberTracker Conservation, specializing in developing wildlife tracking and field skills. With a deep-rooted passion for naturalism, Matt trains biologists, students, and employees from state, federal, and tribal agencies, as well as the general public, to accurately interpret wildlife sign and behavior.

His work spans a wide range of conservation and research projects, including mountain lion studies in North America, carnivore tracking programs in Wisconsin, and efforts with the Saola Foundation to train trackers in the mountains of Laos to locate rare species. In addition, Matt has contributed to numerous environmental initiatives, such as steelhead and salmon surveys with the Gualala River Watershed Council, hog removal efforts for UC Berkeley, and forestry projects aimed at identifying wildlife trees.

Known for his practical expertise and dedication to field-based learning, Matt helps others hone their skills in tracking, ensuring the future of wildlife conservation and management. Whether in search and rescue, research, or ecological restoration, Matt’s diverse experience makes him a respected leader in the field of wildlife tracking.

matt@trackercertification.com

Michelle Peziol

Track & Sign
Helena, Montana

Michelle was introduced to tracking in 2009 and has been fervently searching every mud puddle and following any trail she can find since. She is currently using her tracking skills in wildlife science, spending the past 4 years following mountain lions in Wyoming. Now she is  working on her Master’s degree, studying how mountain lion kill sites increase nutrients in the soil and surrounding vegetation.

Missoula, MT
trackercertification.com
michellepeziol@gmail.com

Kersey Lawrence

Trailing
Connecticut

Kersey Lawrence is an international Senior Tracker, and has been evaluating Tracks and Signs identification in Africa since 2014, and Trailing in North America since 2018. She travels a lot with her company, Original Wisdom, which runs experiential education programs in wildlife ecology and tracking, and human culture. She spends almost half the year in Southern Africa, and the other half in North America. Kersey has a Ph.D. in Ecology with field research focused on tracking and trackers, and is an award-winning teacher with a decade of experience from the University of Connecticut.

Kersey@originalwisdom.com

OriginalWisdom.com

TrackerMentoring.com

Marcus Reynerson

Track & Sign
Duvall, Washington

Marcus is a naturalist, educator, facilitator, photographer and filmmaker. He has worked in wilderness education, outdoor leadership, and conservation for numerous organizations and communities across North America, Europe, and Africa. He is engaged in telling stories that bring to light and life the complexity of humans living in the 21st century and also is excited to support others in learning about the natural world. Marcus currently splits his time between the Snoqualmie Valley in Washington State, just east of Seattle and the Louisville, KY region. Until recently, he served for 18 years as the Lead Instructor and Program Manager for an internationally renowned environmental leadership program for adults at the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA. He also is a Lead Isntructor and Facilitator with Tracking the Kalahari, a non-profit that facilitates groups visiting the CyberTracker Kalahari Master Tracker Project in Northeast Namibia. Marcus has been With TCNA and CyberTracker as a Track and Sign Evaluator since 2019.

marcus@trackercertification.com

 

Preston Taylor

Preston Taylor

Trailing
Arcata, CA

Preston attended his first CyberTracker Evaluation in 2006, and earned his Senior Tracker certificate in 2015. He works as the Ungulate Specialist Biologist for the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Department where he collaborates on prairie and watershed restoration activities, manages the feral cattle removal program, and contributes to the North Coast California Condor Reintroduction Program.

He is available to run Certifications near his home in Northern California and Coastal Oregon.

Contact:

preston@trackercertification.com

Daniel Hansche

Daniel Hansche

Track & Sign
New York

A tracker & naturalist with 25 years’ experience, Daniel’s conservation & education work has led to wolf dens in the Rockies, Canada lynx surveys, the bison haunts of Europe, and African lion trails. Bicontinental existence with his family in Berlin Germany & New England USA has deepened Daniel’s knowledge and understanding of Eurasian & North American wildlife alike. In addition track & sign certifications, other passions include wild pig trailing, white-tailed deer hunting, honing trackers’ observation skills using visual art & somatic field experiences though Tracking & Perception, expanding the visibility & value of tracking in urban space, and increasing equitable access to connective experiences in wildlife tracking.

daniel@spurwander.com

www.spurwander.com

Rob Speiden

Trailing
Virginia

Rob Speiden began his tracking experiences while growing up on a dairy farm in Orange County, Virginia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. Rob is an active member of the Search and Rescue (SAR) community, and he has assisted with well over 400 searches for missing persons since 1993. He is a Search and Rescue Tracking Specialist, Lead Tracking Instructor and Evaluator for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, and Tracking Standards Committee chairperson. Rob has authored two SAR tracking books: Foundations for Awareness, Signcutting and Tracking and Tracker Training which are available for purchase at www.trackingschool.com.

Tracking humans was a start for Rob to get interested in tracking all animals. After attending countless classes, practicing tracking the four-legged teachers for decades, and participating in dozens of evaluations, Rob earned Cybertracker’s Senior Tracker certification and is a Trailing Evaluator.

speiden.email@gmail.com

www.trackingschool.com

Dave Scott

Track & Sign
Austin, Texas

Dave Scott is the Founder and Executive Director at Earth Native Wilderness School, an outdoor and wilderness skills education school in Central Texas that offers courses and outdoor adventure experiences to students of all ages on topics ranging from Wildlife Tracking, Wilderness Survival and many other traditional human ancestral skills.

Dave has been involved with CyberTracker since 2007 and received his first Track and Sign Specialist Certification in Western Washington in 2011 after many years of intensive study under Senior Tracker Evaluators David Moskowitz and Casey McFarland. Even after spending 15 years teaching wildlife tracking, one of Dave‘s greatest joys remains sharing knowledge of Wildlife Tracking and Animal behavior with others and watching his tracking students grow into competent Wildlife Trackers.

Dave is Author of Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species, a book he co-wrote with his good friend and fellow CyberTracker Evaluator, Casey McFarland.

Dave@earthnativeschool.com

www.EarthNativeSchool.com

Sage Raymond

Track & Sign
Western Canada

Sage began using tracking professionally in 2017 while working as a bear-viewing guide in the interior temperate rainforest of southeastern British Columbia. Since then, she has used tracking for various conservation-oriented wildlife biology jobs, targeting species ranging from bats and toads to moose, caribou, and grizzly bears. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta, where she uses non-invasive methods to study various aspects of carnivore ecology and behaviour.
Sage is passionate about integrating the art and science of wildlife tracking with modern wildlife biology to ask and answer ecological questions that support people and wildlife.
Her academic publications, many of which use tracking as a method, can be found at research gate.
Sage lives in British Columbia and Alberta and is available to run track and sign evaluations throughout Canada.
sage@trackercertification.com

Click here for information on our standards for Evaluators and the process for becoming an evaluator.