The Encyclopedia of Tracks & Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada - Softcover

McDougall, Len

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592280706 ISBN 13: 9781592280704

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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


"Good stuff."--Statesman Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592280706
• ISBN 13: 9781592280704
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428