Essential Skills of a Tracker
Personal Skills
- Awareness and Sensory Development
- Fieldcraft Skills
- Leave No Tracks camp skills
- Wilderness First Aid
- Wilderness Survival Skills
- Land Navigation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Naturalist Knowledge
- Field Hazards
- Eco Systems and Habitats
- General Knowledge of Trees, Plants, Birds, and Indicator Speices
- Knowledge of Mammals
- Research Skills
- Live Trapping and Camera Traps
- Use of Line Transects
- Field Data Collection Methods
- Computer Skills
Tracking Skills
- Track and Sign Identification
- Track, Scat and Sign Classification
- Track and Sign Interpretation
- Aging Track and Sign
- Journals, Drawing, Photography, Casting
- Measurments
- Landscape Tracking
- ablility to predict and anticipate track and sign
- Trailing
- Step By Step Tracking Method
- Lost Track Drills
- Individual and Team Trailing
- Signcutting
- Locating Track and Sign
- Cutting Ahead and Closing the Distance
- Interpretation of Sign Story
- Multiple Team Follow Trailing
- Trailing Wounded Animals