Peter Michael bauer Biography
“Rewilding is a principle, or a lens, that helps us see and move through the world in terms of regeneration and reciprocity. It recognizes that humans are not above those flows, and that it is actually more beneficial to our ecosystems when we acknowledge and become part of them.”
Peter Michael Bauer is an experimental anthropologist, historian, and life-long community organizer. His work focuses on the social and environmental impacts of the neolithic revolution, and how understanding these impacts can provide us with solutions to the sixth mass extinction. Since the early 2000’s, he has been an integral catalyst in the human rewilding movement. He created the first international online rewilding forum (now archived at discuss.rewild.com), wrote a book on rewilding called Rewild or Die, founded the nonprofit community organization Rewild Portland (where he continues to teach classes), and created the Annual North American Rewilding Conference.
Peter developed a connection to nature and the outdoors as a child, going on regular camping trips in the scouts. His first merit badge was basket weaving, from there he went on to acquire many of the older merit badges that came from the origin of scouts, like wilderness survival, fishing, and horsemanship. At 16 he earned his Eagle Scout, but it was not enough for him. He needed more.
After reading the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, he decided his life’s mission was to learn as much as he could about how humans have lived throughout time.
He attended Wilderness Awareness School, Tracker School.
Worked for Cascadia Wild, Audubon, Tryon Creek, Freelance.
Urban Scout character and blog
Rewild.com
Rewild or Die - compiled, book tour, transition to Rewild Portland
Rewild Portland Founder
Rewilding Podcast, Writing, Videos, Classes,
Ancient Ember