Animal Tracking Basics, by Jon Young & Tiffany Morgan

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New Book By our Founder Jon Young!!

Animal Tracking Basics is not just another tracking field guide. Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan have written a manual for how to train yourself to become a successful tracker.

For the first time the holistic approach to tracking that Jon passed on to us at Wilderness Awareness School has been put into print. This book will help you train yourself and learn more when used together with Elbroch's great tracking field guides.

Animal Tracking Basics goes well beyond the basics with inspiring stories, never before published content, and exercises you can do to build your tracking skills.

I'll have a complete review posted soon (please also email us your comments/reviews for possible inclusion on this site), but for now, here's the publishers synopsis of the book.

– Mike Prince, Earth Mentor Program Coordinator, Wilderness Awareness School

Animal Tracking Basics offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker. 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.

Animal Tracking Basics describes aging tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.