State of the knowledge overview of identifying wolf tracks and reading the stories left by their trails. Explains how to recognize and identify tracks, correctly measure footprints, and use measurements to judge gender aand. Signs of wolves covered include scat, scent marking, and carcasses are covered. Detailed information covers gait trails and interpreting patterns on the ground. One section compares wolf signs to the signs of coyote, bears, bocats, and cougars which is wrapped up with guidelines for differentiation of wolf signs from coyotes and domestics dogs.
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James C. Halfpenny, Ph.D., is a scientist / tracker / educator who directs A Naturalist's World, an ecological education company located at the north gate to Yellowstone National Park. A Naturalist's World maintains the Track Education Center which houses over 10,000 footprint casts, photographs, and track accounts. Jim has been tracking for over 50 years and has tracked on all continents. He specializes in rare species including all carnivores. Other interests are ecology, especially of cold regions, and winter.
Tracy Deirdre Furman, B.A., B.A., and M.A.T., has been a naturalist for over 20 years and is interested in a wide variety of wildlife conservation issues. Tracy has a specific interest in carnivores and pursued undergraduate work studying vertebral abnormalities among eastern coyotes. To better understand the behavior and stories of gray wolves, Tracy has studied both basic and advanced animal tracking methods with James C. Halfpenny in Yellowstone National Park, while tracking smaller mammals in her home region of the expansive Adirondack Park of upstate New York. Tracy has most recently volunteered in mammal collections at the New York State Museum and is pursuing a career in wildlife/conservation biology.
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