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Feb 20 2017

How to Track Wild Animals

Track animals. Students studying animal tracks in sand dunes.


Tracking is a fun way to discover and learn a lot about animals and their behavior. The more you track animals the more you learn about them and the life they live. Learning how to track wildlife is an ancient survival skill. A skill our ancestors relied upon to live, hunt, and forage. 

How to track animals

learning how to track we can discover the sign and movement of animals. Recently our Oregon students mapped out coyote, gray fox, feral cat, birds, chipmunk, mouse, and bobcat.

The discovery of wildlife is made easier through the skills of tracking.

Tracking is science and art

Tracking can be very precise. The science of animal tracking may require precise measurements to distinguish between animal tracks of the same family and specie.

Sign language - reading natures clues with Mark Wienert

Sign

The art of tracking enables the discovery of wildlife through recognition of sign. Sign, can be scrapes, rubs, and digs. A very favorite tracking book of mine is Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes

A bus driver and hunter

One of our new students is a bus driver and avid deer hunter from Eugene, Oregon. John had this to say about his newly developed tracking skills.

"Thank you, Mark, for a wonderful experience.  I learned more about tracking in 2 days than I have in 40 plus years of hunting."  ~John H

Thanks, John H., We love to hear these types of comments from our students. Our focus is to increase our student's tracking skills, dramatically.

Survival skills

Tracking has many uses, from discovering what animals visit our yard to wildlife observation. Tracking can be a valuable tool for hunters, photographers, and nature enthusiast. As for me, I believe learning to track is one of the best survival skills a person can learn.

Learn to track wildlife

Are you ready to be a tracker? Register for our Oregon Intro and Advanced Animal Tracking.

Written by Mark · Categorized: Animal and Man Tracking School, Outdoor Survival School offering training in CA, TX, OR · Tagged: bush-craft

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