Daniel Aaron Francis is a regenerative designer, educator, wilderness guide, culture-repair coyote, storyteller, fly fisherman, musician and tracker. Daniel hails from the Santa Ana River Watershed, 5 generations deep. His passion is in teaching adults and youth through hands-on experience in the field about local ecology. He has dedicated 25 years to designing and installing regenerative community gardens, orchards, farms and residential homes with a focus on dry-lands water harvesting. Finding transformational and powerful ways to engage communities to create ecological awareness, empowerment to redesign, individual and community healing, and bridging the social and environmental issues of our time have been his ultimate design challenge and vocational calling. As a wilderness guide, he is focused on deep study of pan cultural rites-of-passage and  running life changing wilderness intensive programs for youth and adults.