The Complete Tracker The Tracks, Signs and Habits of North by Len McDougall

By Len McDougall

The entire Tracker is a concise, thorough consultant to the tracks, symptoms, and behavior of North America's hottest species of flora and fauna. Readers research the secrets and techniques of a grasp tracker, assembling a transparent photograph from tracks, scat, and different indicators. was once it a puppy or a wolf? Fox or coyote? Did it cross by means of the day past or an hour in the past? the total Tracker additionally teaches easy methods to get on the subject of animals - every little thing from bobcats to beavers, marmots to moose - through figuring out the main points in their behavior and a master-tracker's pointers on averting detection. Over a hundred and fifty line drawings express tracks of 60 various species of natural world less than a good number of terrain stipulations. additionally inlcudes maps, charts, and diagrams.

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