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.

Casey McFarland is a Senior Tracker and CyberTracker Evaluator working internationally to train and certify biologists, research teams, eco-tourism guides and the general public.  Casey runs Track & Sign and Trailing Evaluations, as well as a variety of backcountry expeditions and wildlife courses. In 11 years as an Evaluator, Casey has run over 140 Evaluations and given trainings in 8 countries, and as an External Evaluator he oversees Track & Sign Specialist Evaluations. He was integral to the establishment CyberTracker Europe, and currently sits as President of CyberTracker North America.

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

David Moskowitz works in the fields of photography, wildlife biology and education. He is the photographer and author of three books: Caribou Rainforest, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest and Wolves in the Land of Salmon. He has contributed his technical expertise to a wide variety of wildlife studies regionally and in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky mountains, focusing on using tracking and other non-invasive methods to study wildlife ecology and promote conservation. He helped establish the Cascade Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project, a citizen science effort to search for and monitor rare and sensitive wildlife in the Cascades and other Northwest wildlands.

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Visual media of David's has appeared in numerous outlets including the New York Times, NBC, Sierra, The National Post, Outside Magazine, Science Magazine, Natural History Magazine, and High Country News. It has also been used for conservation campaigns by organizations including National Wildlife Foundation, the Endangered Species Coalition, Wildlands Network, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Conservation Northwest, Oregon Wild, Wildsight, Selkirks Conservation Alliance, and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

David is a Senior Tracker, Track and Sign Evaluator, and Trailing Evaluator for Cybertracker Conservation.

Kersey Lawrence is the first woman in the world to earn the Senior Tracker certification (2016) from CyberTracker. She earned her Track & Sign Specialist in South Africa in 2011, and her Trailing Specialist in North America in 2016. She began evaluating participants in track and sign on the African system in 2014, and in Trailing on the North American system in 2018. She travels all over the world to teach and to learn tracking skills, using the CyberTracker Tracker Evaluation system as a model for wholistic ecological education that belongs to all people, everywhere.

Kersey also completed a Ph.D. (2020) from the University of Connecticut, where she was also a lecturer for a decade and received a teaching award for her efforts. Her research focused on tracking. You can download her dissertation and/or watch a 46-minute presentation of her research at trackermentoring.com.

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Kersey is currently the Ecologist and Lead Tracker for the South African based company, Nature Guide Training, which is the provider-on-the-ground for her international, study-abroad company Original Wisdom. Original Wisdom hosts group programs, mainly for high schools and universities, in ecology, tracking, human culture, and bushcraft. Together with her life-partner, Lee Gutteridge (Senior Tracker, Scout Guide, Wildlife Author, and Owner of Nature Guide Training), Kersey recently co-authored The Tracker Mentoring Manual, and launched a series of international online tracking courses at TrackerMentoring.com. She lives in South Africa for half of the year, and the USA for the other half, with additional international travel to teach, learn, and evaluate tracking sprinkled throughout.

Jonah Evans is the State Mammalogist for Texas Parks and Wildlife where he oversees non-game mammal research and conservation for the agency. He is the author of iTrack Wildlife, a smartphone field guide to animal tracks, co-author of Animal Tracks and Scat of California, and creator the website naturetracking.com. He’s authored or co-authored scientific publications on numerous mammal species and on animal tracking in wildlife research. Jonah has a Masters degree in Wildlife Science from Texas A&M University and a Bachelors in Environmental Studies from Prescott College in Arizona.

Marcus is a naturalist, educator, facilitator, filmmaker and photographer and serves currently as one of TCNA's Track and Sign evaluators. He has worked in wilderness education, outdoor leadership, and conservation for numerous organizations and communities across the globe. He is engaged in telling stories that bring to light and life, the complexity of humans living in the 21st century. Marcus currently lives in the Snoqualmie Valley in Washington State, just east of Seattle. He is the Lead Instructor for an internationally renowned environmental leadership immersion program for adults at the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA.

Mark Elbroch is the Director of the Puma/Mountain Lion Program 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 was subsequently the Initial Evaluator for CyberTracker Evaluations in North America. Mark received an honorary Master Tracker certificate in 2015 for his contributions to the field.

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.

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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.

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​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.

Nate Harvey evaluates trackers for CyberTracker in both Trailing and Track & Sign Identification. Additionally, he teaches workshops and intensives. Please visit his website, trackerstrail.com.

Preston works for the Yurok Tribe restoring landscapes to improve habitat for deer, elk, and salmon, and thereby the people as well. He is a crafter of traditional and primitive archery tackle, which he uses to interact with and hunt animals for food. He holds a Senior Tracker certificate through CyberTracker. He also enjoys foraging for food along the tidal rocks and bays, surfing, and backpacking. Visit his website at trackerlongbows.com for more information.

Rob Speiden began his tracking experiences while growing up on a dairy farm in Virginia.  He completed college with a bachelor of science 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 over 370 searches since 1993. As a member of three SAR groups, he responds to searches as a certified Tracking Specialist, Search Team Leader, and Search Mission Coordinator.

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Rob has been an instructor and evaluator for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) since 1998. Rob was awarded Virginia’s highest Search and Rescue Award, The Lisa Hannon Award, in 2007. Rob has authored and published two books: "Foundations for Awareness, Signcutting and Tracking" and "Tracker Training", which can be found at www.trackingschool.com.

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For the last 15 years, Rob has found the Cybertracker Conservation evaluation system to be equally challenging, educational and rewarding. He has earned Senior Tracker status in North America, and is in training to be a Trailing Evaluator.