Peter Bauer

Executive Director, Rewild Portland

Age: 41

Hometown: Portland, OR

Profession: Anthropologist / Historian / Bushcraft Instructor

Strengths: Friction Fire, Basketmaking, Bone Tools, Attitude Experience: 25 years

Peter Michael Bauer is an anthropologist, historian, and bushcraft instructor with 25 years of experience. First getting into survival skills as a boy scout (where he earned the rank of Eagle Scout) and then traveling the country to train and later, teach, at various survival schools and primitive skills gatherings. He is the author of the book Rewild or Die, founder and director of the non-profit organization Rewild Portland, and is the host of the Rewilding Podcast.

A fourth-generation Portlander, his first merit badge in the Boy Scouts was basketry. From there he went on to receive his Eagle Scout rank. He has followed a path of non-traditional education. From the age of 16 he has traveled the country attending programs such as Tom Brown Jr's Tracker School, Wilderness Awareness School, Boulder Outdoor Survival School, Rabbitstick Rendezvous, Echoes in Time, Wintercount, Lynx Vilden's Stone Age immersion program, and the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild. He has been an environmental educator for many organizations in Portland, including Cascadia Wild, Friends of Tryon Creek, the Audubon Society, and more. Prior to becoming the full time executive director of Rewild Portland, he worked in the film industry as a production coordinator for several years. In his spare time he weaves baskets, reads the most current books on anthropology, and continues building skills and practicing aspects of bushcraft and survival.