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Over the weekend of September 10-11, the Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project hosted Senior Tracker and CyberTracker Evaluators Nate Harvey and David Moskowitz for a Track & Sign Specialist Evaluation in the Twin Cities Metro.
Nate and David shepherded our group through 60 very complex and extremely complex questions about tracks, scat, marking behaviors, feeding sign, predation events, skulls, bones, feathers, and nests. Questions covered the tracks or sign of seventeen species of mammals, twelve species of birds, one reptile, and two invertebrates.
Our local group was joined by trackers from Ohio, Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin. A huge thanks to everyone who participated in the evaluation, and to Mike Holtz and Alison Zaccardi who assisted throughout the weekend. Congratulations to all the participants, many of whom achieved their highest ever score on a Specialist evaluation. Three trackers earned their Track & Sign Specialist certification in this (slightly urban) northern forest ecosystem:
Jonathan Poppele of the Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project
Jonathan Shapiro of Fox Paw School in East Hardwik, VT
Nicholas WazeeGale of Wildroots Handcrafts in La Farge, WI
Back row, left to right: Kirsten Welge, Nate Harvey, Kathy Dean, Sandy Reed, Eric Vehe, Maria Wesserle, Bill Kass. Front row: Abel Bean, Nicholas WazeeGale, Jonathan Poppele, Jonathan Shapiro, David Moskowitz
An acorn opened by a Blue Jay
Overlapping tracks of a River Otter
Gray Squirrel digging--most likely burying a nut
Southern Flying Squirrel latrine
Mourning Dove tracks
Discussing the details of a canid track
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