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Animal Tracking Basics
Tracking 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.About the Jon Young is the founder of the Wilderness Awareness School and OWLink Media, Inc. He lives in San Gregario, California. 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
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 23, 2007
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March 7, 2020
Great info, but only if you actually apply it and put it into practice!
It did awake new awareness in me, but could not lift it to the next level, as I was too stuck in my own ways and would have needed personal mentoring and guidance.
It did awake new awareness in me, but could not lift it to the next level, as I was too stuck in my own ways and would have needed personal mentoring and guidance.
January 15, 2021
One of the best books about the sitspot.
February 21, 2014
WAY too basic for me, but good for people who really do not know a thing and want some pleasent reflections on why loving animals and knowing their tracks is the key to knowing them and enjoying life. I would recommend you read Young's other book "What the Robin Knows" instead...
March 22, 2012
This is an excellent book all about how to track, not a list of tracks. It is comprehensive and inspiring with in depth exercises that are guaranteed to teach you tracking.
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