Wildlife Tracking Training in North America

WILDLIFE TRACKING

Wildlife Tracking
Training and Certifications
all around North America

Upcoming Tracking and Training Certifications

San Diego Desert and Mountains – April 2025

Wildlife Tracker Conference Online – April 2025

Twin Cities Minnesota – May 2025

Montana – Swan Valley – June 2025

Cuyama, California – November 2025

More Events Around North American 2025-2026

Wildlife Track & Sign Training

You’re invited to participate Wildlife Track and Sign workshops & certifications being conducted all around North America. These two-day field experiences are fun, participative workshops with an emphasis on learning to identify animal track and sign by looking at real tracks we find across the landscape and discussing exactly how to identify them.

If you’re not familiar with the international organizations of Cybertracker or Tracking Certification North America (TCNA ) certifications and evaluations, we urge you to peruse this link to gain an understanding of the depth and value of this type of track and sign training. Visit TCNA and you will understand why the sponsors are organizing this weekend to further their skills in state-of-the-art track and sign training available no where else in the world.

Visit the TCNA CALENDER to see events scheduled across North America.

Small Class Size Maximizes Learning

Expert Trackers and teachers from Tracker Certification North America (TCNA) will conduct these trainings. All instructors are highly experienced Track and Sign Specialists, wonderful teachers and mentor with a special gift of showing you how to “see” the invisible.

TCNA TRAINING/CERTIFICATION DETAILS

This two-full-day field experience will immerse you in the art and skill of reading the hidden stories of animals by examining the clues they leave across the landscape. You’ll discover how see and interpret animal behavior that was previously “invisible” to you.

Discover How To See, Intrepret and Understand The Obscure

If you would like to improve your skills or recognizing and interpreting wild animal sign that is invisible to “normal people”, we invite you to participate in the Tracking Certification North America Wildlife Track and Sign workshops across North America.

The TCNA training is designed to equip you with a set of reliable field skills to identify obscure track and sign left behind our wild neighbors. At the end of the weekend you will be able to unlock the mysteries of wild animal behavior by reading their marks on the landscape – sign that was previously invisible to you. In other words, at the end of this weekend, you’ll be able to interpret animal sign and behavior that – to other people – are nothing more than obscure marks on the landscape.

Who Is The Training Is For?

Whether you’re a member of a Search & Rescue team, a biologist, educator, hunter, naturalist, outdoorsman or simply a person who is curious about the natural world, you’ll find this training to be eye-opening. No prior training is required to participate. In fact, the less you know, the more you will learn. The value of this training lies in the deep awareness all participants gain of animal sign and behavior.

Our Classroom Is The Outdoors

The entire weekend consists of in-the-field training. Our classroom is the outdoors. Our teachers are the animals themselves. Our instructor will locate animal track and sign and ask us what we think made the sign. We are then shown a different way to “see” the sign and learn how to interpret it. This simple question and answer process is repeated with different animal sign over and over throughout the weekend, enabling you to absorb the secrets of wildlife sign interpretation. The learning retention is deep and unparalleled.

Gain Wildlife Awareness

The Tracker Training and Certification Process emphasize the development of reliable field skills. Every participant walks away with deeper levels of awareness and new “search images” for the subtle patterns left behind by wildlife as they travel across the landscape.

In summary, the goal of the experience is to accelerate your wildlife awareness and enable you to see and interpret the obscure and subtle clues left by animals on the landscape.

Acquire New Skill-Sets

In this course, you will gain the skill-sets to explore and interpret the vast and exciting world of wildlife track, sign and behavior. Topics will include:

Wildlife foot morphology
Track and sign identification
Interpreting wildlife behavior
Track aging
How wildlife interact with varying landscapes
The art of following animal trails

Learn to “Read” The Landscape

The course will follow the curiosity of the participants as well as the animal tracks and trails encountered along the way. Whether you are an experienced tracker or a beginner, you will learn to look at the landscape in a new way – able to read stories left behind by the wildlife all around us.