David Cronenwett has studied primitive living and wilderness skills as student and staff at Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) in Boulder, Utah and with master woodsman Mors Kochanski in north central Alberta. David has taught outdoor survival and bushcraft seminars for the University of Montana and other organizations throughout the region. He lives in Choteau, Montana with his wife Alison, son Hunter and is happiest hunting and gathering in big, wild country.

Leif Fredrickson is a fourth generation Montanan and lifelong outdoorsman. He has studied woodcraft and survival skills with some of the finest practitioners in North America including Alexandra and Garrett Conover, with whom he completed a sixty day, unsupported winter snowshoe journey across Quebec's Ungava Peninsula. Leif is an accomplished farrier and instructor of wilderness living skills. He lives in Montana's Seeley-Swan Valley.

Bushcraft instructors Leif Fredrickson (Left) and David Cronenwett (Right)