Are you interested in tracking skills? If you have spent any time outside, you have come across tracks or sign left by animals and people. If you have ever wondered how to interpret, and even follow, human tracks or sign, this book is for you. This book imparts knowledge necessary to answer the questions" What happened here?" and "Who made that track?" This is an essential book for NASAR Tracking Fundamentals and other tracking classes. It will encourage and develop your awareness of the outdoors.. It is a great resource for SAR Volunteers, law enforcement officers, military personnel, property owners, hunters, naturalists, and everyone else.
Through explanations, illustrations and many pictures from actual searches for missing persons, this book describes methods and techniques used by tracking personnel.
It is written to cover many basic topics in tracking, signcutting and awareness as applied in search and rescue. This 312-page full sized 2nd edition manual is based on the current standards for the F.A.S.T. course approved by the Virginia Search and Rescue Council and certified by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. It was written, printed and published in the USA. It has over 140 pictures (mostly color) and 60 illustrations, It also includes a glossary, index and bibliography.