Peterson FlashGuides are the most compact and convenient field guides ever made. Unfolding in a flash, they show at a glance all the most common wildlife and plant life of a particular type or a particular region, and they employ the famous Peterson Identification System to pinpoint the key differences between species. Animal Tracks is based on Olaus Murie's classic A FIELD GUIDE TO ANIMAL TRACKS, one of the most popular titles in the Peterson series. It shows how to identify the tracks and other signs of more than 100 mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians of North America.
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Richard Philip Grossenheider is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Title: Peterson Flash Guides to Animal Tracks.
Olaus J. Murie was one of America's leading mammalogists. His extensive field work ranged throughout the United States and Canada, from Labrador to the Aleutian Islands, with special concentration in the Northwest. For twenty-five years he was a field biologist with the U.S. Biological Survey, now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also served as the director of the Wilderness Society for many years. Mr. Murie lived in Moose, Wyoming. He was the author of The Elk of North America and many articles on natural history.
Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
Olaus J. Murie was one of America's leading mammalogists. His extensive field work ranged throughout the United States and Canada, from Labrador to the Aleutian Islands, with special concentration in the Northwest. For twenty-five years he was a field biologist with the U.S. Biological Survey, now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He also served as the director of the Wilderness Society for many years. Mr. Murie lived in Moose, Wyoming. He was the author of The Elk of North America and many articles on natural history.
Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world"s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation, as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides® are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very useful guide,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Animal Tracks (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
My wife and I have found this guide to be very useful in interpreting the sign left behind by the creatures resident in our northeastern woods, not only tracks but scat as well (with hundreds of detailed drawings of scat it is as much a guide to those leavings as tracks). The extensive behavioral descriptions are equally useful. I am not clear on the basis for the criticisms contained in the other review concerning animal harassment. Dr. Murie was a dedicated conservationist and President of The Wilderness Society after his retirement from the Fish and Wildlife Service and his respect for the creatures he is describing is evident on every page. While he acknowledges that some tracks were obtained from live-trapped animals, it is clear from the book that the overwhelming mass of the data is from direct field observation from a life spent in the outdoors.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good and comprehensive guide, a little difficult,
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It is a good and comprehensive guide, it has a lot of animal tracks, I found it a good and complete guide, but honestly sometimes I had a lot of difficult tryng to find some kind of tracks that I found.In my personal opinion I think that this is a very good book for experts on the field but not so good for beginners in animal tracks. And by the way it doesnt have any color illustration, and altough they are not needed I was very familiar with peterson guides and this one is a little different.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-have tracking classic,
By Len McDougall "Len McDougall, Outdoor Writer" (Paradise, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Field Guide to Animal Tracks (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback)
When I was a kid running a trapline in northern Michigan, this was the book I carried in my rucksack. Today, more than 35 years later, I've written 2 books of my own on the subject of tracking wildlife, but this book is still on my bookshelf. Olas Murie was a true American pioneer who led the way into an area where no one else had gone before him. He established the first standards, and while modern genetic and other scientific techniques have increased our knowledge of wildlife manifold over what was known in Murie's day, it was he who laid the foundation on which the rest of us build. This book is a must-have for every tracker's library.
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mountain phenacomys, porcupine droppings, whitetail jackrabbit, hind track, hognose skunk, shorttail weasel, longtail weasel, blacktail jackrabbit, redback vole, succulent feed, winter droppings, eastern woodchuck, weasel tribe, trail pattern, kangaroo mouse, pygmy rabbit, pellet type, summer droppings, firm mud, front track, track pattern, squirrel tracks, marsh rabbit, snow tunnels, natural size Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Olympic Mts, Pacific Coast, New Mexico, British Columbia, Central America, North America, Canal Zone, Jackson Hole, Chisos Mts, New Zealand, North Dakota, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone Natl, Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea, Hudson Bay, Red River, Zoological Park, Aleutian Islands, New York City, Alaska Range, New England, Woodland Park Zoo, Yellowstone Park New!
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mountain phenacomys, porcupine droppings, whitetail jackrabbit, hind track, hognose skunk, shorttail weasel, longtail weasel, blacktail jackrabbit, redback vole, succulent feed, winter droppings, eastern woodchuck, weasel tribe, trail pattern, kangaroo mouse, pygmy rabbit, pellet type, summer droppings, firm mud, front track, track pattern, squirrel tracks, marsh rabbit, snow tunnels, natural size Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Olympic Mts, Pacific Coast, New Mexico, British Columbia, Central America, North America, Canal Zone, Jackson Hole, Chisos Mts, New Zealand, North Dakota, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone Natl, Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea, Hudson Bay, Red River, Zoological Park, Aleutian Islands, New York City, Alaska Range, New England, Woodland Park Zoo, Yellowstone Park New!
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- My Life by Richard Wagner in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks: Third Edition by Olaus J. Murie in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Reptiles and Amphibians (Encyclopedia of the Animal World) by John Stidworthy in Front Matter
- The Wolves of Mount McKinley by Adolph Murie on page 93
- Mammals Of Nevada by E. Raymond Hall in Back Matter
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- Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Jonathan Waterman on 9 pages
- Tracking and the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign by Paul Rezendes on page 43, and Back Matter
- Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown on page 136, and page 204
- Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology by Ralph A. Lewin on page 12, and Back Matter
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