Animal Tracking Basics

Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced trackerTracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment--how it finds food, travels, and rests. A tracker must know how to find and interpret behavioral clues animals leave behind. This how-to book teaches the basics of being a successful tracker--explaining what to look for to find or identify an animal and how to develop an essential environmental awareness. Also describes aging tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.

Author: Tiffany Morgan, Jon Young
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.30w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780811733267
ISBN10: 0811733262
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Outdoor Skills
- Nature | Animals | Wildlife

About the Author
Tiffany Morgan has worked as an editor for The 8-Sided Mirror, the newsletter for the Shikari Tracking Guild, and as an assistant curriculum writer for tracking and nature-based correspondence courses. She has also participated in a variety of tracking research projects. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. Jon Young is the founder of the Wilderness Awareness School and OWLink Media, Inc. He lives in San Gregario, California.