Mammal Tracking in North America
by Dr. James Halfpenny
"quite simply the best book ever written on the subject." --The Mother Earth News
Jim Halfpenny has taught tracking since 1967, and today he continues to lead people out to find the wolves of Yellowstone Park or the polar bears of the arctic. His book Mammal Tracking in North America includes everything you need to know about track identification, gaits and following trails. Halfpenny takes special care to provide track comparisons between similar species, so you can identify tracks with confidence and accuracy.
The book includes hundreds of artistic and precise illustrations by Elizabeth Biesiot, including stop-motion style drawings to better communicate the gait patterns, plus a handy photo gallery of scat for easy comparison. Mammal Tracking is just the right size, weight and content to bring on every outdoor trip. 1986. 163 pages. Printed with soy ink (except the cover) on recycled paper with 50% post-consumer content.
Tracking Elk for Hunters
video by Dr. James Halfpenny
Anyone who has worked with video knows that what the camera sees can be very different from what the human eye sees. Tracking can be especially difficult to portray on video, since the tracks or track details may not show up at all on camera. However, Jim Halfpenny has done a superb job of making the invisible truly visible through his video work.
It is also very difficult to hold the attention of the audience with just one person on camera, but Halfpenny is a very dynamic speaker, and the tapes are well edited, so the viewer is easily captivated by his enthusiasm for the subject.
Tracking Elk for Hunters is especially designed to help hunters interpret elk track and sign, determine the sex of the animals, predict where and when to find them, and ultimately track them after the shot. Whether you are a hunter or not you will learn all kinds of tips about elk and their habits. It is a very well done video, and most of the material presented in it is new and different from what is presented in Halfpenny's book or his other videos.
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Animal Tracks
A Peterson Field Guide
by Olaus J. Murie
Animal Tracks is a classic book based on Murie's research starting in 1921 and first published in 1954. Almost fifty years later it is still one of the best books on tracking.
Animal Tracks is especially helpful for track identification of the smaller animals, the woodchucks, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, gophers, rats, mice, voles, shrews, etc. It also covers the more obsure animals that are not covered in other books, such as the ringtail, peccary, armadillo, seals, opposum, birds, reptiles and amphibians-even insects! The book includes more than 1,000 illustrations covering both the tracks and gaits of more species than you would have thought existed in North America. Animal Tracks even covers the domestic livestock--sheep, cows, horses and pigs--to help you distinguish them from their wild cousins.
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