Category: News

Ventura Tracker Certification 11/19/2022

On November 118 & 19, I conducted a Track and Sign Certification for the Ventura County Wildlife Trackers in Southern California. We saw the tracks of 23 species, including 16 mammals, 4 birds, 2 invertebrates, and a few signs left…continue reading

Los Padres CA Tracker Certification 11/16/2022

On November 15 & 16, I conducted a Track and Sign Certification for the Southwest Wildlife Online Tracking Training group in San Diego, California. Another evaluator, Matt Nelson, happened to be in town and volunteered to co-lead the certification. We saw…continue reading

Santa Barbara Tracker Certification 11/13/2022

On November 12 & 13, I conducted a Track and Sign Certification in Santa Barbara County for the Wilderness Youth Project. We spent the first day at the North Campus Open Space and Day 2 at a bridge in town.…continue reading

San Diego Tracker Certification 11/14/2021

On November 13 & 14, I conducted a Track and Sign Certification for the Southwest Wildlife Online Tracking Training group in San Diego, California. We saw the tracks of 32 species, including 19 mammals, 10 birds, 1 herp, 1 invertebrate, and…continue reading

CyberTracker North America invites you to the North American Wildlife Tracker Conference, taking place online on April 24-25, 2021. The conference will showcase how professional trackers are applying tracking across the continent and around the world, the status of the…continue reading

Identifying Individual Mountain Lions from Footprints

I have been working for several years now with Zoe Jewell and Sky Alibhai from WildTrack on a system for identifying individual mountain lions from their tracks. We recently published an article in the open access journal PLOS One and it's available to read…continue reading

New Tracking Website

The new NatureTracking.com website is finally live. I hope you will find it to be a useful tool for identifying all kinds of animal tracks and learning about tracking. I worked hard to create a clean and intuitive interface that is…continue reading

Website Updates

We recently updated our website with 72 new photographs of mammals, birds, herps, and invertebrates from around the country.  View any of our track photograph pages (from the main page) to see the new photos.  While we do not yet…continue reading

Wildlife Diversity Biologist Position

Wildlife Diversity Position On August 31, I began work for Texas Parks and Wildlife as the new Wildlife Diversity Biologist for the Trans Pecos region (west Texas). I will be coordinating and conducting non-game wildlife research and conservation for 19…continue reading

Article Published in JWM

Article Published in JWM Our journal article entitled: “Determining Observer Reliability in Counts of River Otter Tracks” has just been published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.  This was the culmination of my Masters Degree in Wildlife Science from Texas…continue reading