Mark Elbroch
Initial Evaluator
Sequim, Washington
Evaluators
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 15 years as an Evaluator, Casey has run over 170 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).
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. 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 Community Wildlife Monitoring Project, a citizen science effort to search for and monitor rare and sensitive wildlife in the Cascades and other Pacific Northwest wildlands.
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
Brian McConnell
Trailing External Evaluator
Everson, Washington
Brian McConnell became a Senior Tracker in 2008 and has been an evaluator for Cybertracker specializing in trailing since 2009. Brian contributed stories for Practical Tracking and photos for Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. He is an avid hunter and outdoorsman, a member of the Washington state Master Hunter program, and a passionate naturalist. Brian enjoys mentoring new hunters and watching people working their first bear trail. He currently conducts trailing evaluations, trainings and workshops around his home in Washington state and throughout North America.
Everson, WA
trackercertification.com
bantytracks(at)gmail.com
Nate Harvey
Track & Sign; Trailing
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
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, this simple traveler has left footprints in search of authenticity in his life. Slow to learn and insistent on the hardest of life’s lessons, he’s a generalist in the true sense of the word. Easily bored, Matt has worked more jobs than can be listed here, searching for himself amid all the glittery promises of the materialistic culture he grew up in.
A lifetime hunter and woodsman, Matt strives to share his deep observations and his love for all things wild and true freely amongst his human interactions and in his teaching.
Matt holds a Senior Tracker certificate from Cybertracker Conservation, is a track and sign evaluator with the same organization, and has worked on numerous wildlife and research projects, including the Gualala River Watershed council, the Garfield/Mesa Lion project, and the East Bay Puma Project. He currently resides in northern Wisconsin.
nelsonmattw@gmail.com
redwoodcoastanimaltracking.com
Michelle Peziol
Track & Sign
Missoula, 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.
Marcus Reynerson
Track & Sign
Duvall, Washington
Marcus is a naturalist, educator, facilitator, writer, and photographer. He is engaged in telling stories that bring to light and life, the complexity of the ways humans are currently living in the 21st century. He was the Associate Producer of the conservation documentary ‘Last Stand: The Vanishing Caribou Rainforest’’ as well as a contributing author for ‘Caribou Rainforest’ by Braided River Press. Born in south Louisiana and raised in Kentucky, Marcus currently lives in the Snoqualmie Valley in Washington State, just east of Seattle where he is the Lead Instructor for an internationally renowned environmental leadership program for adults at the Wilderness Awareness School. Additionally, he works in wilderness education, outdoor leadership, and conservation advocacy for numerous organizations and communities across North America and Europe.
Preston Taylor
Trailing
Coastal North Carolina
Preston strives to immerse in and interact with our wild world through a variety of outlets including digging clams, picking mussels, collecting edible mushrooms, fishing, hunting, surfing, backpacking, and sitting around a campfire. He is a crafter of wooden longbows, a passionate traditional bowhunter, and participates in a variety of earth-based natural skills. He attended his first CyberTracker Evaluation in 2006, and earned his Senior Tracker certificate in 2015. He completed a B.S. in Wildlife Management & Conservation from Humboldt State University. He is the author of Tracking the American Black Bear. Preston works as the Ungulate Specialist Biologist for the Yurok Tribe where he manages the Feral Cattle Removal Program, assists the North Coast California Condor Reintroduction Program through non-lead ammunition outreach, and collaborates on prairie and watershed restoration activities.
He is available to run workshops and Evaluations around the country.
Contact:
preston@trackercertification.com
Daniel Hansche
Track & Sign
Germany
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.
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.
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.