Most if not all of us in the outdoor community are trying to get our kids involved and interested in the outdoors. We’re trying to create an awareness of the wilds and we’ll take any resource that makes that easier. It seems like HarpersTrophy is up with that as it published a book called “Big Tracks, Little Tracks – Following Animal Prints”.
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It’s not a super light look at animals either. While it only shows half a dozen or so different animal tracks, it lays down principles on identifying the differences between cat-type tracks and dog-type tracks, throws in a a fox track to mix things up and even shows how to read the tracks to find out what the animals were up to and why. For example, why did the rabbit start running and where did it go?