TRACKING & READING SIGN PA

by MCDOUGALL,LEN

• ISBN13: 9781616080068
• ISBN10: 161608006X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-04-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

This full-color book is the perfect guide for anyone who is interested in learning how to track animals and read their signs. It offers an introduction on the principals of tracking and reading sign by looking at tracks and prints, gaits, scats, sign, scents, and animal behaviors, and provides the reader with tracking and stalking techniques, such as cold hunting, camouflage and using the stump method. The book also describes over twenty different animals that can be tracked and lists their basic characteristics, tracks, habitat, diet, behavior, and common relatives. All in all, Tracking is the one-stop guide for any person who is looking to track and read sign while exploring or hunting in the out-of-doors.

Author Biography

Len McDougall is a field guide and wildlife tracker in Michigan’s north woods, where he teaches survival classes and tests outdoor products. He has written for Field & Stream and published several books, including The Self-Reliance Manifesto, The Complete Tracker, The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats, The Field & Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook, and Practical Outdoor Survival.