John Jeanneney

John Jeanneney majored in geology at Dartmouth College. After working as an exploration geologist he went on to Columbia University, where he received a PhD in European History. Research for his dissertation on French forest history, which was funded by a Fulbright scholarship, took him to the French National Forestry School for a year. There he also investigated European methods of deer hunting.

Back in the United States he taught history for 31 years at Hofstra University. Besides history his other passions include hunting and wirehaired dachshunds. He has a deep commitment to finding ways to reduce the loss of wounded big game. In 1976 he received a research permit from New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate the feasibility of using leashed tracking dogs when deer and bear could not be found by other means. The success of this research project led to the legalization of tracking dogs in his own state and subsequently in many others. As a hunter he has published numerous articles and two books "Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer" and "Dead On! Deer Anatomy and Shot Placement for Bow and Gun Hunters. Tracking Techniques for Wounded Whitetails". He has given numerous workshops, seminars and presentations on wounded deer tracking. Every year John tracks wounded deer and bear for local hunters and takes over 30 "deer and bear calls". He is a co-founder of Deer Search, United Blood Trackers and North American Teckel Club. In February 2012 he was inducted to the New York State Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame.

John resides with his wife Jolanta Jeanneney in Berne, located in the Helderberg Mountains of New York State, where they breed wirehaired dachshunds for blood tracking and hunting.