Dan Ellens is an outdoor enthusiast who spends about 200 days a year living in his hand-built off-grid treehouse in the Michigan forest, with oil lamps, woodstove heat, and hand pumped water. He is retired from a full career in industry and international business, and currently promotes restoration of natural and agricultural land, self-reliant lifestyles, and outward-bound activities. His lifelong hobbies include woodworking, drawing, reading, outdoor recreation, and travel.
While Ellens lived in Germany as a child, and India as an adult, he has always called Michigan home. His extensive travels, which have encompassed much of the world, provide a broad range of cultural, historical, and geographic context to his life and writings.
Books authored by Ellens include Turning Ten - Great Adventures in the Great Lakes, A Time for India, Building the Bunkee - A Photo Anthology of Custom Log Cabin Construction, and Treehouse Letters – The Unabridged Michigan Forest Life Journal.
Dan Ellens is a graduate of Calvin University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. His education continued with studies in Business Administration at Cleary University (BBA), and Michigan State University (MBA).
Dan Ellens can be contacted at: dellens1957@gmail.com