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October 2026 Pike's Peak COLORADO : Track & Sign Certification
Earn your Tracker Certification. TCNA is a globally recognized, professional-level qualification designed to enhance wildlife tracking skills and knowledge. Sharpen your wildlife tracking skills by engaging all senses—sight, touch, smell, taste, and imagination—to gain deeper awareness of animal signs and the living landscape. This fun, relaxing, collaborative program will help you develop sharper observation skills often overlooked in standard training. Info: Pikes Peak
October 2026 WILDLIFE TRACKING IN AFRICA
Join Dr. Kersey Lawrence and world famous African tracking author Lee Gutteridge tracking - on foot - lions, rhinos, elephants and SEE the animals. This is a once in a lifetime tracking and safari experience. You'll be on the ground in Africa instead of in an air-conditioned Land Cruiser... you be tracking, not sight-seeing. With a maximum of only 8 participants, every day is a deeply personal, mentored experience in one of the world's great wildlife landscapes. African Tracking Intensive
October and November 2026 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST - LIONS & BEARS
Join Wildlife Trackers from all around North America for your choice of THREE Wildlife Tracing Events. Come tracking with trackers and expert instructors from all around North America in this rugged, gorgeous, secluded river valley along the Cuyama River in the Los Padres National Forest. Tracking and Trailing Trainings & Certifications are offered across ten days with multiple programs. The Cuyama River Valley is surrounded by the stunningly beautiful Los Padres National Forest. This is one of the most beautiful river valleys in the America and one of the most breathtaking tracking locations in North America. Info: send inquiries to: swott01@gmail.com
December 2026 SAN DIEGO MOUNTAINS & DESERTS
Southern Californa's Sonoran Desert is sunny and mild in December. The San Diego Tracking Team invites you to participate in our Wildlife Tracking Training & Certification being conducted in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in early December 2026. We'll be tracking in the Anza Borrego Desert. Each program is preceeded by a free "Prep Day" of with expert instructors to get you familiar with desert track and sign. The 2-day workshop is at once intense, fun & participative. Borrego Springs, CA Info: San Diego Desert Tracking Training
January 2027 Ontario, Canada Lynx, Wolf, Moose Tracking Trip
Join Alexis Burnett of EarthTracks on an experiential tracking and trailing trip into the north woods. We will focus our scouting and tracking on finding sign, tracks and trails of the Canada Lynx as well as wolves, moose, deer, marten, fisher, otter, flying squirrels, spruce grouse, snowshoe hare. This trip will be epic! INFO: Canada Tracking Adventure
January-May 2027 Southwest America Tracking Intensive
Track in some of the most beautiful places in the American Southwest
The Wildlife Tracking Institute (WTI) is offering another 5-month, intensive, field-based wildlife tracking program. We'll meet one weekend a month in some of the wildest and most compelling deserts, canyons, rivers, and mountains in the Southwest. With expert instructors, focused mentorship, and a time-honed curriculum, we'll give you a rock-solid foundation in the art and science of tracking, and plenty of new skills on top—plus a profound connection to the wild landscapes we visit. Beginner, intermediate and experienced trackers welcome. For more info: WTI Intensive
February 2027 TRACKING IN ARIZONA: Rivers, Deserts, and Mountains
The Wildlife Tracking Institute invites you join TCNA expert Wildlife Instructor Marcus Reynerson, for a full weekend of desert tracking in the Sky Island Mountains and San Pedro River of southeastern AZ. We'll spend two full days immersed in observing, learning, and answering questions about the incredibly rich animal life in this region—one of the most diverse in North America. More Info: Sonoran Tracking Training
Learn Tracking At Your Pace From Home With Personal Instruction
Earn A Certificate on your first Wildlife Tracking Certification
The Best On-Line Tracking Training in North America is Southwest On-Line Tracking Training, affectionately known to hundreds of expert trackers as: SWOTT. As a student you are mentored and coached by 8 expert track and sign instructors. More Info: Southwest On-Line Tracking Training (SWOTT)
Discover How To See, Interpret and Understand The Obscure
If you would like to develop the skills to recognize and interpret wild animal sign that is invisible to “normal people”, we invite you to participate in the Tracking Certification North America (TCNA) Wildlife Track and Sign workshops across North America.
The TCNA certification will equip you with the skills to unlock the mysteries of wild animal behavior by reading their marks on the landscape – sign that was previously invisible to you.
You’ll be able to interpret animal sign and behavior that – to other people – are nothing more than obscure marks on the landscape.
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