The White Pine Tracking Apprenticeship

The goals of the apprenticeship are:

1. To create competent, skilled wildlife trackers.

2. To prepare competent wildlife trackers to apply their skills as effective tools in community, scientific, and educational settings.

Tracking is an invaluable tool when learning to read the book of nature. There is alot happening out in the woods that we never know about, but sometimes when we are lucky, animals leave there tracks behind as little windows into their lives. Lately I have enjoyed following the trails of bobcats, moose, foxes and coyotes for as far as I can and getting to see what they are doing all day.

This is flying squirrel scat; either northern or southern flying squirrel. You can tell because it is flattened and not round or irregular like other squirrel scats.

And this is my favorite cedar swamp to go tracking in. Today I found otter tracks, shrew tunnels, beaver sign and 3 coyotes hunting together.