Animal Tracking Basics
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List Price: $19.95
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 590
EAN: 9780811733267
ISBN: 0811733262
Label: Stackpole Books
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 298
Publication Date: 2007-01-30
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Studio: Stackpole Books
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Summary: Defiantly worth picking up!
Comment: After learning tracks and tracking for two years now this book, by its title alone "Animal Tracking Basics," seemed a step back. After reading the chapter on aging on google books I knew it was at least worth a once over.
I plowed through my copy in a week and now I'm sorry to be done. This book is packed full of ideas and exercises to take anyones tracking further. Throughout the book it stresses the importance of ecology but also explains how this knowledge will help your tracking. It is a book you will reference again and again.
The track journal was great. I have drawn many tracks in the last year or so and thought I was doing well and getting the information I needed. But, after seeing the FOUR PAGE track journal outline I realized how much I overlooked. I loved the section on birds as well.
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Summary: The Basics Unabridged!
Comment: Tiffany Morgan has done an excellent job of creating the ultimate beginners guide to animal tracking. With the assistance of Jon Young, creator of the Wilderness Awareness School in Washington State, they weave a highly readable instruction guide laden with the most valuable information for those setting off on the dusty trail. Most of the information found in this book is based upon the author and co-author's extensive training and "dirt-time" with animal tracking. If you follow the procedures set forth in this book for one year your tracking abilities will noticeably improve. This information was previously reserved to student teacher relationships where the student would pay a considerable sum to attain this level of knowledge. Enjoy this awesome read!!!
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Summary: Not just fun. . NECESSARY!
Comment: I can't imagine life without tracking. This book is not just a how to track book but also a description of a lifestyle that any outdoors enthusiast should aspire to. I'll be reading my copy over and over and giving copies to friends for many years. I give this book my highest recommendations.
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Summary: A Great Tool for Understanding the Basics
Comment: "Animal Tracking Basics" is probably one of the most important books I have read when it comes to learning tracking and nature awareness. It's jam packed with exercises, instructions to fun games to play, and amazing illustrations that will help you learn more about, and deepen your relationship with, the living community around you. And most importantly Jon Young and Tiffany Morgan and many other experienced trackers and naturalists share their experiences and wisdom through interesting and easy-to-understand stories.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who has a desire to experience the art of tracking and nature awareness. This book is a tool to aid you in those timeless experiences. It belongs on any naturalist's bookshelf.
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Summary: Great approach to Animal Tracking
Comment: If you want to learn how to find animal tracks, to follow those tracks to the live animal, and refine the ability to scout up to the animal and touch it, then Jon Young is the person that you want to meet.
Jon Young teaches tracking and nature awareness using both the naturalist and spiritual applications. I have found his approach and methods to animal tracking much easier to learn than having to stare at a single track for hours at a time.
Jon Young incorporates the "big picture" as he teaches tracking using the landscape to assist with finding animal runs and beds. His storytelling ability is unmatched and has an incredible way of bringing in the mystery and excitement of discovery.
This book should be a starting point for anyone on the learning path to be a master tracker.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 behavioural 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. It also describes ageing tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.
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