Review
"His descriptions of scat-the poop pictures, as it were-will surely capture the imagination of even the most video-game hooked child, at least for a moment."--Santa Fe New Mexican


Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is the first comprehensive guidebook for identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall, an adroit tracker and an experienced teacher of tracking skills, takes the reader step-by-step from basic identification skills to interpretation and understanding of the animal's behavior by means of its tracks and scats. The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats also offers a handy key of track and scat characteristics that enables the reader to quickly verify the source of any markings.


From the Back Cover
The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is a comprehensive guide to identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall—an adroit tracker and an experienced teacher of tracking skills—takes the reader step-by-step from basic identification skills to interpretation and understanding of each animal’s behavior by means of its tracks and scats. This volume includes all information necessary for professional biologists, field researchers, and wildlife personnel to readily identify their subject matter, but is also a handy, easily understandable reference for amateur and hobbyist trackers and hunters.
The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats, with its systematic approach to teaching the fundamental skills of observation, enables the reader to quickly verify the source of any markings. Included in this volume are thorough, practical discussions of:
• animal characteristics and classifications
• taxonomy and dental classification
• individual analysis of all hooved and pawed mammals, as well as birds, amphibians, and reptiles
• collecting data from the field
• a tracker’s essential supplies and field kit



About the Author
Len McDougall is a full-time outdoor writer and professional photographer and illustrator with more than thirty years' experience in the North Woods. He teaches survival classes by appointment and tests outdoors products and has also worked as a field guide and tracker. His books include The Complete Tracker, The Field & Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook, Made for the Outdoors, The Outdoors Almanac, and Practical Outdoor Survival.

He lives in Paradise, Michigan.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats is the first comprehensive guidebook for identifying the tracks and scats of all trackable animals of the United States and Canada. With ample use of photographs and line drawings, Len McDougall, an adroit tracker and an experienced teacher of tracking skills, takes the reader step-by-step from basic identification skills to interpretation and understanding of the animal's behavior by means of its tracks and scats. The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats also offers a handy key of track and scat characteristics that enables the reader to quickly verify the source of any markings.

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