Tracking and Reading Sign by Len McDougall (Paperback)

A guide to mastering the original forensic science.

Whether you are tracking a white-tailed deer or pondering what four-legged created visited your backyard during the night, Tracking and Reading Sign is a colorful, practical tool that makes experience nature entertaining and fun. Outdoorsman Len McDougall offers an introduction to the principles of tracking and reading sign that will help you spot and analyze tracks, prints, gaits, scats, scents, and animal behavior. With full-color photographs illustrating every important nuance, McDougall makes this important outdoor skill as easy as possible and profiles more than twenty different essential animals, listing basic characteristics, tracks, habitat, diet, behaviors, and common relatives. He includes:

• White-tailed Deer
• American Elk
• Raccoon
• Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
• Porcupine
• Brown Bear
• Mountain Lion
• Gray Fox
• And more

The definitive one-stop guide for any person looking for a better understanding of our animal neighbors, Tracking and Reading Sign educates and makes the outdoors more exciting.