EarthTracks

“It is what it is, ain’t nothing more, or less. Deal with it, then move on.”   D Wilson

Septmeber 15th I will be presenting a wildlife tracking workshop at Cedar Hill State Park. Explore the woods of Cedar Hill just south of the DFW metroplex. The workshop will begin at 10am. For more information visit Cedar Hill online.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/cedar_hill/

The following dates I will be in Austin, Texas working for the University of Texas. The project dates are field times for a mammal survey. Information is gathered by track and sign, camera traps, trapping, visual identification as well as other methods.

June 22nd-24th
July 27th-29th
Aug 3rd-5th
Aug 10th-12th
Sept 21st-23rd

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

My good friend and fellow tracker Scott Matula is hosting the Euless Tracker Club Campout at Cedar Hill State Park. This is a yearly event for these kids. They get to apply skills that they have worked on all year. Mr. Matula will be putting these kids through several events including wildlife tracking, fire by friction, shelter building, survival skills, aidless navigation, trapping, stalking, camouflage, and self defense. This is one of my favorite events of the year. I can’t wait to help out.

Saturday and Sunday June 1st and 2nd.