SNOW TRACKING RARE MAMMALS

SNOW TRACKING RARE MAMMALS
Professional Level. Taught by Jim Halfpenny.

Wolverine, lynx, fisher, marten, cougars, wolves, and even bears are difficult to locate, but the winter blanket of snow "ups" your odds of finding them and learning their secrets. Designed for winter enthusiasts from amateur naturalists to wildlife managers to those who just want to know, this course combines basic-level tracking with professional-level skills and includes certification.

Lecture and field content includes snow tracking basics, and tracking databases (criteria for identification and measuring, footprints and trails, size and sex determination, and discriminant analysis), gait patterns and stories, preserving tracks (plaster casting, photography, interpretation), species track accounts, and ecology

Location: Gardiner, MT and Yellowstone National Park

Dates: No classes currently scheduled

All sessions are identical. You may select your choice of dates when you check out.

 
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