Schools and Classes

A Naturalists World - Classes and other useful information.  Based in Montana and Wyoming taught by Dr. Jim Halfpenny.

Alderleaf Wilderness College* - Classes and apprenticeships taught by Jason Knight in Washington.

Earth Skills - Classes in tracking and survival taught by Jim Lowery in California.

EarthTracks - Classes in animal and  search and rescue tracking taught by Dwight Wilson in Missouri.

In This Place - Tracking classes taught by Paul Wanta and John McCarter in Massachusetts.

Leoniak Tracking Services* - Classes, apprenticeships and evaluations by George Leoniak in Vermont.

Natural Awareness Tracking School*  - Classes in animal and search and rescue tracking by Rob Speiden.  While based in Virginia, classes are available anywhere.

Ndakinna - Tracking classes taught by James Bruchac in New York.

The Tracker School - Many classes in tracking, awareness and survival taught by Tom Brown Jr.

Walnut Hill Tracking and Nature Center - Classes in tracking taught by Nick and Valerie Wisniewski in Massachusetts.

White Pine Programs* - Tracking classes and apprenticeships taught by Dan Gardoqui and Dan Hansche.

Wilderness Awareness School* - Numerous classes in tracking taught by a variety of staff in Washington.

Wildlife Tracking Southwest* - Classes, workshops and (soon) evaluations in North America by Casey McFarland in New Mexico.

*Taught by evaluated instructors

Informational Resources

Animal Tracks Yahoo! Group - A venue for sharing photographs and ideas about tracking.

Beartracker’s Animal Tracks Den - Photographs and useful resources compiled by Kim Caberra.

eNature - The original online field guide to birds, plants, and mammals.  Has some tracks as well.

How to Identify a Cougar Track - Some useful tips on telling cougars from dogs.

Mammal Tracks on Track Plates - A collection of images of mammal tracks from track plates compiled by the Pacific Southwest Research Station for the Sierra Nevada’s in California.

Neotropical Track Library - A site with photographs of many species of neotropical animal tracks.  Created by Renata Leite Pitman and ourselves in Peru.

Virtual Dirt Time - A great site of track photographs and information on identification for Oregon.

Wildlife Tracking in North America - A comprehensive collection of tracking resources and information on tracker evaluations by Mark Elbroch, currently in California.

Organizations

CyberTracker - The original site of the tracker evaluation as well as the innovative software.  Developed by Louis Liebenberg.

FGASA - The field guides association of South Africa.  Holds evaluations for natural history and guiding skills.

ISPT - The International Society of Professional Trackers holds an annual conference where trackers from around the world come to share ideas.

Research Projects

Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project - Site of a project dedicated to finding jaguars in southern Arizona, maintained by Emil McCain.

WildTrack - Dedicated to further developing the “Footprint Identification Technique” a statistical software for identifying individuals of a species from tracks, by Dr. Sky Alibhai and Zoe Jewell in Portugal.

Citizen Science Groups

Keeping Track - Uses citizen trackers to identify wildlife corridors in Vermont, run by Susan Morse.

San Diego Tracking Team* - Uses citizen trackers to identify wildlife hotspots in southern California.

Sky Islands Alliance - Uses citizen trackers to locate wildlife linkages in southern Arizona.

*Uses evaluated data collectors

Tracker Evaluations

CyberTracker - The site of the tracker evaluations in South Africa.  Developed by Louis Liebenberg.

Leoniak Tracking Services - Evaluations offered in North America by George Leoniak in Vermont.

Wildlife Tracking in North America - Site of the CyberTracker initial evaluator for North America, Mark Elbroch.

Wildlife Tracking Southwest - Classes, workshops and (soon) evaluations in North America by Casey McFarland in New Mexico.

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