Wildlife tracking is a field science that facilitates the ability to identify and interpret the signs of animal activity and provides accurate and localized wildlife observations amid a changing world.
Moreover, it is a practice that leaves people feeling a meaningful connection with the landscapes in which they live.
Track & Sign Identification and Interpretation teaches us to recognize and interpret tracks, beds, feeding sign, marking behaviors, kill sites, nests, feathers, skulls and more.
Trailing teaches us how to follow tracks and sign so that we can non-invasively locate the animal that made them.
We learn to identify subtle evidence, interpret behavior, and predict animal movement; all while moving silently, responding to wind currents, bird alarms and other information in a dynamic environment.
Tracker Certification North America & CyberTracker Conservation
Tracker Certification North America (TCNA) educates trackers of all skill levels, and through the CyberTracker Conservation Certification process ensures reliable observations from profeSsionals and community scientists alike.
Using these skills to measure landscape health, CyberTracker Conservation’s mission is to create a worldwide environmental monitoring network.
Learn how to track wild animals and take animal tracking classes workshops with OUR INSTRUCTOR Matt Nelson
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, our instructor, Matt Nelson, has left footprints in search of wild animal tracks. Matt holds a Senior Tracker certificate from Tracker Certification North America (TCNA) and is a senior track and sign evaluator with TCNA meaning Matt is expert in wildlife tracking training all across North America.
Matt is a highly respected wildlife tracker with more than 20 years of experience in the backcountry. He has spent months in the Rocky Mountain researching and tracking mountain lions and has worked on numerous wildlife and research projects including the Gualala River Watershed council, the Garfield/Mesa Mountain Lion project and the East Bay Puma Project.
Matt is also a wolf expert and can be found during the winter in northern Wisconsin teaching trackers, biologists and naturalists from all over North America the art of tracking wild animals especially the king of wild animals… the wolf.
A lifetime hunter and woodsman, Matt is passionate about sharing his heartfelt respect for nature and love for all things wild and true. He is at once an intuitive tracker and a humble and gifted teacher – you can’t help but learn and be inspired after spending a weekend with Matt.
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 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.