Introduction to Animal Tracking: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Methodology and Art of Tracking Mammals

Tracking is one of the most important yet overlooked and misunderstood skills related to outdoor self-reliance. There are many animal track identification guides on the market, but understanding the art of tracking is a totally different skill all together. Author Craig Caudill has tracked everything from frogs to fugitives, and there was never a time when he did not learn and grow from it. Tracking is part art and part science. This means you do not have to be born a tracker to become one. All that is required is a desire to learn what tracks and other sign can tell you. This resource has been created to help new and experienced trackers simplify visual tracking into decipherable concepts and skills. This is not a track identification guide. This guide is intended to serve as an introduction to the methodology of tracking mammals. It is written by a world-renowned outdoor skills instructor and tracker who has worked with the Department of Defense, first responders on the federal, state, and local level as well as thousands every-day folks. In this guide Craig will outline such principles as: Pre-tracking While-tracking Post-tracking Tracking Systematics Types of Sign Patterns of Movement Ground/Bottom Sign Aerial/Top Sign And more… — ISBN13: 9781947281509