Wildlife Tracking for Environmental Professionals

Wildlife Tracking for Environmental Professionals

Dates: 2009 dates TBA
Duration: 9am Sat - 4pm Sun
Location: Monroe, WA area
Instructor: Jason Knight
Cost: $200
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Wildlife tracking skills are an invaluable tool to the environmental professional. Accurate track and sign identification skills allow wildlife professionals to make more thorough wildlife inventories with greater efficiency. Interpretation and trailing can aid behavioral studies and enhance data collected on survey projects.

This course will cover basic and advanced track identification, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. The course will also cover interpreting behaviors from track patterns, basic track aging, and track and sign documentation methods.

18 WA State clock hours available through The Heritage Institute.
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Instructor: Jason Knight is a wildlife biologist and is certified as a Level III Track and Sign Interpreter through CyberTracker International. Jason has conducted cougar and carnivore projects for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and taught tracking courses throughout the United States.

Check out wildlife tracking articles by Jason Knight.