Books by Mark Elbroch

Mark Elbroch is the author of numerous books, including the National Outdoor Award-winning Mammal Tracks and Sign, Stackpole Books, 2003. Houghton Mifflin chose Mark to revise Olaus Murie's fifty-year-old classic, the Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks. He has been practicing wilderness survival skills for more than 12 years and has taught these skills in workshops across the country. He is sought after as a speaker at conferences and environmental centers and has appeared on public radio discussing wildlife tracking techniques. Mike Pewtherer has been practicing and teaching wilderness living and survival skills for over 18 years. He is the coauthor of Wilderness Survival (2006) and the founder of Woodland Ways, a company teaching wilderness survival, rites of passage, and living skills to youth and adults. He has taught in venues ranging from private high schools to conferences. Mike also teaches blacksmithing, tracking, woodwork, and ceramics. Mike has traveled widely and studied with native tribes in North America, Fiji, and Australia, and has acquired and practiced survival skills in military settings as a combat engineer, in Australias Outback, and with various wilderness instructors across North America. He has also worked with the National Parks Service on the Wilderness Rescue Squad in numerous back-country settings, assisted on black bear studies, and worked as a hunter of feral hogs in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Hometown: Philmont, NY